From: George Bogavac <K2GT@UNB.CA>
Subject: Re: Bosnian Muslims Rsnian Muslim Govean Gn Government rejectrej
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:57:45 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.134357.1306@wuecl.wustl.edu> victor@jezebel.wustl.edu (Victor Wickerhauser) writes:
>In article <1992Jul30.054654.24094@cco.caltech.edu> simic@pollux.ccsf.caltech.edu (Petar Simic) writes:
>
>> peace on the Balkans. Their message warms the hopes of Muslim government of
>> Bosnia that military intervention of the West on their behalf is just
>> arround the corner if they just persist in rejecting to talk to
>> representatives of Bosnian Serbs. It therefore contributes to prolongation
>> of the suffering of all the people of Bosnia and Hercegovina, yet, it seems
>> that even after hypotethical military intervention of the West on the behalf
>> of Muslim government, they would still have to talk to Bosnian Serbs if
>> peacefull political settlement is to be ever achived in this part of
>> Yugoslavia.
>
>The Bosnian Government is secular and multicultural, not Muslim: it contains
>ministers from all three of the major ethnic groups.  It is the Serbian
>rebellion which is monocultural, and in an extreme way.
>

This statement is only TECHNICALLY correct.
Even though I haven't been able to follow the political events in
B&H in the past couple of months, due to the fact that that most
of the attention is (rightfully) focused on humanitarian issues,
I am aware that there were some changes to the government in
Sarajevo.
As I understand, the Serbian representatives, who were
democraticaly elected by the Serbian people of Bosnia left, and
were replaced by new ones, "loyal to the government".

Actually, this is not the first time that this has happened in
ex-YU. We all remember the case of Sejdo Bajramovic, who was
named the representative of Kosovo in the Yugoslav presidency by
the Serbian politicians because he was... well, "appropriate"
for them. Mr. Sejdo, of course,had about as much support from
Albanians as did Mr. Milosevic :-), still,one could pull the
argument that because he is an Albanian, the whole presidency
is, as Prof. Wickerhauser put it "secular and multicultural".

A similar case exists in Croatia, where the head of the commitee
for relations between nations (something like that) is a Serb
who is also the head of the "Serbian Peoples Party of Croatia"
( whose name, again I don't remember, probbably because he is
so insignificant ). This man was neither elected by Serbs
nor does he have their support. He is merely a pawn used by
Tudjman's government to parade in front of foreigners.


Now, Karadzic & co. were, whether some like it or not,
elected by the vast majority of Bosnian Serbs and therefore
only they have the right to negotiate on their behalf. The
same, of course, goes for the Croats and Muslims and their
representatives. Only they can reach an agreement that will
*TRULLY* satisfy the peoples involved. Anything else, is
just a smoke screen.

Regards,
George Bogavac.

From: dirkh@hplsla.hp.com (Dirk Hubregs)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:34:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Sarajevo pix in NY Times magazine
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