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...self-congratulatory tone was, of course, premature. As the bombs over Zagreb proved, the Krajina Serbs were in no way ready to swallow defeat, but they were quite prepared to kill civilians. Twelve rockets fell on the city. Some of them were confirmed to be Orkans, manufactured by Yugoslavia in partnership with Iraq, carrying antipersonnel warheads that spew out up to 288 deadly metal "bells," or bombs, packed with explosives and buckshot. The toll was six dead, 180 wounded...
...taken hostage by Krajina Serbs and dropped into the midst of a fire fight when they returned to the sector on Thursday under the scant cover of a U.N.-declared cease-fire. U.N. special representative Yasushi Akashi, who is head of the U.N.'s peacekeeping operation in the former Yugoslavia, managed after the second round of rockets to engineer a cease-fire in Sector West. But when he tried to fly into the sector on Thursday, the Croatians would not allow his helicopter to land. "Akashi has become a comic figure," says Jens Reuter of the Sudost Institute in Munich...
DIED. MILOVAN DJILAS, 83, writer and dissident; in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. During World War II, Djilas fought alongside Yugoslavia's future leader Josip Broz Tito and went on to hold key positions in his communist government. But Djilas' criticism of the power and privilege granted to party leaders eventually led to years of imprisonment, during which he wrote The New Class, his seminal critique of communism...
...cites one such atrocity as the use of mass rape as an instrument of social policy in the former Yugoslavia...
...point. After all, the systematic destruction of a people, guided by a "final solution" which was to be implemented even after military defeat was assured, is quite different from the recent, more haphazard atrocities in the former Yugoslavia...