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...Marshal Tito's communist partisans alike. After eight years of primary school in Montenegro, Karadzic in 1960 joined the flood of young peasants moving to the cities. He had big hair even then, but no money, and thought of himself as a poet. His decision to study medicine in Sarajevo, however, was eminently practical, as medicine was a likely path to security and status...
...SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina: After a weekend standoff between U.S. soldiers and Bosnian Serbs that culminated with the Serbs threatening to fire on American helicopters, Serbs shot at six Portuguese U.N. troops Monday. No one was injured in the two incidents, but they mark the heightening tensions in the Serb-controlled area of Han Pijesak, headquarters of Bosnian Serb commander General Ratko Mladic, who was indicted for genocide by the Bosnia war crimes tribunal. The Portuguese soldiers were heading east of Sarajevo to deliver food supplies when several shots were fired from nearby woods, hitting the last vehicle in the convoy...
First, however, let's note that the military aspects of Dayton have been implemented almost completely with no loss of life to NATO forces from hostile action. The Bosnian Serbs pulled back on schedule. Sarajevo was united under Muslim control. No one--not even the negotiators at Dayton--would have dared predict this five months ago. Still, it is too early for self-congratulations. Other divided lands--Korea and Cyprus, for example--bear witness to temporary cease-fire lines that turn into permanent dividing lines...
...facto partition would leave 49% of Bosnia under the control of the Bosnian Serbs. Partition could also lead to the eventual involuntary dismemberment of Bosnia, with each of its larger neighbors, Croatia and Serbia, annexing a portion of the country, leaving a weak, landlocked Muslim mini-state around Sarajevo. Such a result would threaten the fragile stability in southeastern Europe. At a minimum, Albania, Bulgaria, the Former Macedonian Republic of Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey would all be affected...
...Balkans, even that will not last if implementation of the civilian provisions fails, and none is more crucial than the one promising that the men who held the club and the gun will be arrested and tried. "How can I ever go home," says Hamdija, a Muslim refugee in Sarajevo, "if the man who killed my father goes free...