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Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke will meet with Croat President Franjo Tudjman and Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic in Zagreb on Tuesday. He is expected to discuss reining in the combined Muslim-Croat forces, which have made significant territorial gains in northwest and central Bosnia during the past week. U.N. officials now say Muslims and Croats control more than half of the country and are still pressing forward. Although Holbrooke's peace plan calls for a cease-fire agreement by September 25, Stiglmayer reports that Bosnia's Foreign Minister Muhamed Sacirbey told reporters today that the fighting would continue, since...
...this weeks earlier, when Karadzic and Mladic had flown to Belgrade to meet with him immediately after the Croatia offensive. Having been encouraged early on by Milosevic in their bids to establish a satellite Serbian state, the Bosnian Serb leaders were looking to him for support as Croatian President Franjo Tudjman's troops steamrolled through Krajina and into Bosnia during the early weeks of August...
Nearly 150,000 Serbs like Milic spent most of last week fleeing before the army of Croatian President Franjo Tudjman. Tudjman's soldiers needed just five days to conquer Krajina, the crescent-shaped region whose Croatian Serb majority seceded from Croatia in 1991 with the help and encouragement of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. Tudjman's victory last week created the largest exodus of refugees since the Balkan wars began; at the same time, the offensive shook up the region's political and military balance of power, and as a result seemed to create an opportunity for peace. The White House...
...city of Knin was drenched in a fiery rain of artillery shells, mortars and bombs. The self-styled capital of Krajina, the stronghold of nearly 200,000 rebel Serbs who seceded from Croatia in 1991, found itself the focus of a massive assault by the forces of Croatian President Franjo Tudjman. Within the first half-hour of the offensive, more than 200 shells fell on Knin. By Saturday panic had descended as well. As Croatian tanks began rolling through the streets, Knin's Serb leaders placed a last-minute call to the U.N., requesting the evacuation of 32,000 civilians...
...stirring of Croatia is one of the most important events of the war in years. One-third of the country was seized by rebel Croatian Serbs in 1991. Ever since, President Franjo Tudjman has been preparing openly for a campaign aimed at recapturing that land, and the Croatian armed forces have been rebuilding and training with new weapons. In May they took back Western Slavonia, and it has been assumed that a major Croat offensive would begin this summer. The action last week seemed to be the overture. By week's end, young men had disappeared from the streets...