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...system are at a dead end. Resistance to change within a proliferation of petty baronies and bishoprics has buried in paper nearly every major reform effort. A growing view holds that the U.N. must be reinvented--pardon the expression--in a basic way. Declares Dragoljub Najman, a native Yugoslav who worked in the U.N.'s cultural arm for 30 years: "It's become too large, it's underfinanced, and it's under serious fire. The question you must ask yourself then is whether the U.N. is not headed toward some kind of disaster. I think the answer is probably...
...responsible for some of the worst atrocities in the Balkan war. "Arkan started out as a big-time bank robber in Europe years ago," reports TIME's Edward Barnes. "He would literally just walk in and point a gun at someone. Later he did political killings for the old Yugoslav communist government. He operates out of an ice cream shop in Belgrade." Although Arkan is not publicly associated with the Serb president, Barnes says, "He's Milosevic's man. It's hard to believe he would have gone into Bosnia without Milosevic's consent."/P> LOCK THE PRESSES...
Nearly 200,000 Serb refugees streamed out of the Krajina region in Croatia after the territory was retaken from the Serbs by Croatian forces. As joyous Croats celebrated, bitter Serbs denounced Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, whom they faulted for not coming to their aid. Yugoslav officials, struggling to cope with the huge influx of refugees, announced plans to send thousands of them to Kosovo, a region that is 90% ethnic Albanian and that many fear will be the next Balkan powder...
What is happening in Bosnia should not be mistaken for or equated to the Holocaust. The sheer magnitude of the crimes committed by the Nazis against the Jewish population of Europe outweigh the crimes committed by any group in the former Yugoslav Republic. But something of the same concept is ineluctably present. The motivation to destroy another person or group of people simply for having some cultural or religious characteristic, regardless of new tags like "ethnic cleansing," echoes too strongly of genocide. And that is where I thought that America drew the indelible line between right and wrong. Regardless...
...Croatian Serbs and some renegade Bosnian Muslims, all of whom are also allied. If the Serbs of Croatia and Bosnia begin to lose battles and territory, the President of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, may be tempted to send in yet another army--his own, the powerful remainder of former Yugoslav forces...