From: trh@jack.sns.com (Al Trh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
Subject: Bosna News--II
Date: 17 Nov 1992 09:53:41 -0600
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> From: A_KADIOGLU%SMCVAX.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu

The exerpts are taken from The New Republic
Balking, Clinton's BOSNIA crisis.
        Since august when the world first glimpsed
horrifying images of Slavic Muslims imprisoned in
Serbian detention camps the situation in Bosnia
has grown more complex and more desperate. In the
coming winter if the US and the Allies do not
intervene 400,000 people are going to die. The
prognosis is not hopeful, although negotiations
aimed at ensuring flows of relief supplies to
Sarajevo itselflittle has been done to solve
the root of the problem. The Muslim  dominated
Bosnian  government labors under a UN arms
embargo which prevents its army to be armed
composed of 150,000 people. The Serbs have
achieved a major  break through by capturing
the city of  Bosanski Brod the last important
Bosnian barrier preventing Serbs from Serbia.
The UN imposition of  "no-fly zone" has temporarily
stopped Serbian air attacks but done nothing to
stop the ground war.
        The constant in Western policy amid all
these shifts has been reluctance to confront
a military dimension of the conflict to identify
and stop the Serbian agression.In june George Bush
has ordered the Marine units to adriatic and promised
to consider military action . Within days Marine
corps was withdrawn and talk of intervention discarded.
Colin Powel the chief staff was strongly opposed
to military intervention.The US finally identified
it as a civil war. Eagelburger then gave a commentary
saying that if the killing did not stop in each side
the outside world can do nothing about it. The debate
over US intervention however one key policy initiative
has largely been overlooked: UN arms embargo lifting
against the Muslims. Paul Wolfowitz and Zalmay Khalilzad
who work in higher positions in the state department and
are the architects of US policy towards Afghanistan
during 1980's the idea had congressional support Sen. Joseph
Biden's amendment of $50 million dollars arms transfer to
the Bosnians pending a lifting of UN embargo, It is in fact
not too late to save Bosnia though it requires a major shift
in policy and careful balancing act among beligerents,
flow of arms to Bosnia should increase and this will increase
the leverage of negotiations of Bosnian government, Croatia
should be offered a large aid in taking care of the refugees.
Croatian nationalist leader should be removed who is Mate Boban.
The US government should support Panic's efforts in helping the
Bosnian Crisis.

Current History, November 1992.
The dis integration of Yugoslavia,
War comes to Bosnia.
The US expectation of diplomatic recognition of Bosnia
would calm matters seriously underestimating the etnic
and religious violence in the region the claims to the
by the Serbs and Croats and the tenuous authority of the
Ali Izzetbegovic's government.The fact that the etnic
communities lived peacefully under the authoritarian
Tito regime most inhabitants of the republic deplored
etnic rivalry did not detract from the intense latent
hatred and psychology difference among the communities.
Assesments of etnic relations in Bosnia based on the
cheerful atmosphere in 1984 Sarajevo olimpics seriously
misjudged the real situation. Faced with the growing
possibility that largest Serb community will remain
outside Serbia JNA forces used what ever force necessary
to forestall such an event.The war ensued in Bosnia after
Croatia has led to even more casualties. Terrified by the
prospect of being once again dominated by a Croatian-Muslim
alliance supported by Germany Serb forces attempted to alter
the demographic structure.Angered by the Belgrade's apparent
role in the aggressive Serb  onslaught against Croats and
Muslims in Bosnia the UN imposed harsh sanctions against
Serbia.
        Looking beyond the current war fare and disruption
it also remains unclear whether the successor states to
Yugoslavia can successfully resusciate the extensive economic
linkages that existed in the previously existed.The imperatives
of economic survival and geography suggests that such cooperation
will resume even after the recents episodes.


The BOSTON GLOBE NOV.13,1992

Moynihan sounds warning on ethnicity
Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan,(D) of Newyork warned yesterday that
the slaughter taking place in Bosnia will occur in dozens of other
countries unless the world learns to cope with it. Moynihan
suggested air strikes against the capital of Serbia itself
"If we let freeze thousands of people this winter and go
skiing in Gstaad ,I do not know why we fought for the
cold war".At a news conference he said" if I were the
new secretary of state I would put a sign
{ Ethnicity,Stupid}".This is not to say that US take the
job but if we do not help something will go wrong
in the world. There now eight states in the world
both existed in 1914 and had not have their borders
changed of the remaining 170 or so contemporary states
far the most frequent factor involved has been the
ethnic conflict of the next states coming in to being
ethnicity will be the main factorwhich will define the
characteristics of the conflict.