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...which would then accept its lot as a satellite of Greater Croatia. There is a precedent for what amounts to "benign ethnic cleansing." Croatia, with Washington's blessing, invaded the U.N.-protected Krajina region in August last year and murderously drove the Krajina Serbs from their ancestral lands. The Dayton accord is in essence a temporary cease-fire. It can be made permanent, provided the international community firmly declares that the partition line between the Bosnian Serb Republic and the Muslim-Croat Federation will be treated as an international border in case of armed incursions. YUGO KOVACH Twickenham, England...
...military side, the civilian operation is another story. The civilian accords are plagued by a lack of cash and endless Balkan bickering. This is disturbing because the accords cover elections, refugee resettlement and reconstruction--all of which are crucial to giving Bosnia a stable peace. "The civilian part of Dayton is the test of our success or failure, not the military part," said Richard Holbrooke, chief architect of last November's agreement. "For Dayton to be termed a success, rather than a high-water mark of good intentions, the civilian implementation must succeed." Without that, U.S. soldiers...
...more of a grip-and-grin meeting, it's still a significant step. Koljevic is thought to be connected to Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, so there is at least a speculative link to power there." Koljevic met with Kresimir Zubak, president of the Muslim and Croat federation that the Dayton peace accord says will govern half of Bosnia. According to a member of a delegation from the 52-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the former enemies talked "openly about common issues," such as defusing tensions in Serb-held suburbs of Sarajevo and the elections which are scheduled...
Bitterness over the war and its conclusion spells finis for the career of Karadzic and possibly that of Bosnia's military commander, General Ratko Mladic. So does the Dayton peace agreement negotiated in the U.S. last year. It bars both of them from political office because they have been indicted as war criminals by a special tribunal in the Hague. Karadzic's slide is triggering a struggle for power inside the Serb Democratic Party, the movement he heads. In addition, opposition parties have arisen in a new power center, the northwestern Serb city of Banja Luka, which has long been...
...place even two months ago. The Serbs at the meeting were of the diehard variety, and as Karadzic and Momcilo Krajisnik, speaker of the Serb assembly, sat a few feet away, critic after critic stepped to the podium inside the looming Hotel Bistrica to denounce their leadership. Under the Dayton agreement, four Serb-held districts and suburbs of Sarajevo, which are Karadzic's main power base, must be turned over to the Muslim and Croat government of Bosnia by March 19. The Serbs remember the Vance-Owen peace plan that was much more favorable for them but was rejected...