Word: franjo
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...that the current carnage obscures: in many villages, ethnic groups have coexisted peacefully for centuries. Probably they would have continued that way had it not been for the zealous ambitions of their nationalist leaders. Serbia's Milosevic is not the only one to whip up ethnic hostility. Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, no less brutal a dictator or ardent a nationalist, used the fighting in his republic to pummel Serbs and attempt to impose total control over any who stayed in Croatian territory. Now Tudjman is taking advantage of Bosnia's war to occupy areas settled by Croats. His government...
...first, and the federal government's attempt to hold it by , force was cut short by a feisty military defense and the fact that Slovenia had no Serb minority to justify Belgrade's interference. That successful bid for freedom emboldened Croatia, where Serbs are a widely dispersed minority. President Franjo Tudjman's inflammatory and nationalistic rhetoric also stirred Serb fears of a reprise of the genocidal campaign against them by Croat fascists during World War II. Now Bosnia, largely Muslim and Croat but with a 1.4 million Serb ethnic component, has seceded, and Serbia sees the pattern repeating. Once again...
...Yugoslav civil war. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, still nominally a socialist, has led his people to war in the name of a virulent ethnic nationalism that has nothing in common with the international brotherhood of workers to which he once professed allegiance. For his major opponent, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, democratic principles merely temper a style reminiscent of a Latin American caudillo, complete with ceremonial-sashed portrait displayed in all police stations and paternalistic rhetoric reminiscent of Peron or Pinochet. Yet his major internal opposition comes from an even more extreme group: the Croatian Party of Rights, which unabashedly honors...
...collapse of 14 negotiated truces over the past six months, the peacemakers have not given up. U.N. special envoy and former U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance last week put together the most detailed agreement yet and won approval from the warring Presidents, Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia...
...week's end the leaders of Serbia and Croatia agreed on the outlines of yet another truce. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and federal Defense Minister Veljko Kadijevic agreed to call off the offensive, while Croatian President Franjo Tudjman pledged to lift blockades around federal army bases. Both sides also pledged to discuss new political arrangements for the protection of minorities. But the news produced no immediate break in the fighting, raising fears that the atavistic struggle might be beyond diplomatic solution...