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...tying up every road in northern Bosnia with thousands of vehicles. Profiteers sold gasoline for 10 DMs a liter, tap water for 2 DMs a liter. Wherever the convoys passed, Croats gathered to jeer, releasing a barrage of bricks, boulders and manure. "Monkeys!" they screamed. "Murderers!" "Go back to Serbia!" One of the worst incidents occurred in Sisak, where Croats began pulling people out of their vehicles and beating them; a woman later died from her injuries. In one of this war's strangest twists, more than 30,000 followers of Fikret Abdic, a Muslim who aligned himself with...
...Milosevic does not come to the Serbs' aid, and if Tudjman is satisfied with retaking Krajina, the chances for peace in the region might actually be improved. A demonstrably strong Croatia could act as a counterweight to Serbia; a defeat for the Serbs might make them more amenable to negotiation; and a reintegrated Krajina would no longer be a source of instability. As American and European diplomats point out, the map looks much simpler with Krajina in Croat hands, the isolated eastern enclaves in Serb hands and some sort of Bosnia in the middle, making the way to a settlement...
...Milosevic may not be able to stay aloof, and Tudjman may reach for too much. If the situation of the Krajina Serbs becomes truly dire, nationalists in Serbia will press Milosevic to act. "I don't expect Milosevic to come to the rescue of the Krajina Serbs unless there is a barbaric massacre or the blowing up of churches by the Croats," says one State Department official. "That would put him under tremendous pressure." Thousands of refugees now pouring into Serb-held lands in Bosnia could also provoke sympathetic outrage in Serbia...
...Bosnian Muslims, they have been expressing quiet glee at the unusual spectacle of Serbs suffering bombardment. But the Bosnians' cooperation with the Croatians may be short-lived. Catholic Croatia and Orthodox Serbia have long harbored the desire to divide Bosnia between themselves, and Bosnia's recent partnership with the Croats does not change its vulnerability. Indeed, some fear that a successful Tudjman might begin divvying up Bosnia with Milosevic. "Every government acts only in its own interest," said one Bosnian government official, who predicts that once Croatia has what it wants, it will eagerly turn to the task of carving...
Slowly, the Bosnian Serb forces led by Karadzic are overwhelming the Muslims who occupy the lands which they consider "Greater Serbia." The newspaper version reads like a finished piece of history. The television asks us at every moment if this is how we desire to write the history. So the real war here is to be fought over the medium, which in itself will surely determine the outcome of events. No one likes unhappy endings on television...