From: na0i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Nenad Antonic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.yugoslavia,soc.culture.europe
Subject: Some news from B&H
Date: 11 Apr 92 22:05:26 GMT
Organization: Doctoral student, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


	This time it is clear from the beginning who is the aggressor.
Could this reduce the death toll, suffering ... ?

				N.A.

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Subject: Army backs Serbian drive in Bosnia-Hercegovina

	SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Hercegovina  -- The Yugoslav army seized more
territory Saturday in a drive to carve out a self-declared Serbian
state within Bosnia-Hercegovina and Muslims threatened to blow up a
major dam and inundate areas of the new republic's border with Serbia,
officials and news reports said.
	Relief workers, meanwhile, struggled to cope with more than
40,000 Muslims and Croats uprooted by Serbian attacks and bombardments
on the former Yugoslav republic.
	Western diplomats said the bulk of the refugees were forced
from their homes in ``ethnic cleaning'' operations to create ``pure''
Serbian areas along Bosnia-Hercegovina's eastern border with
communist-ruled Serbia.
	In the most dramatic incident of the day, officials managed to
persuade the head of the crisis staff in Visegrad not to carry out a
threat to dynamite a hydroelectric dam on the Drina River border
between Serbia and Bosnia-Hercegovina if Serbian shelling of the city
did not halt.
	Meanwhile, one diplomat said he had a report that
Belgrade-based Serbian guerrillas executed more than 100 Muslim
civilians in their occupation of Zvornik on Thursday.
	``It's creating panic all over Bosnia. There was a massacre in
Bijeljina and evidently one in Zvornik,'' he said. ``I don't think
there are men with guns going door to door, forcing people out. But
they are doing it in another way.''
	Clashes pitting Yugoslav army-backed Serbian Democratic Party
gunmen and Serbia-based guerrillas against poorly armed Muslim and
Croatian militiamen reportedly flared in Foca, Capljina, Kupres and
Croatian villages near Mostar.
	Serbian gunners also shelled parts of Sarajevo.
	No accurate casualty tolls in the fighting were available. But
hundreds of people are feared to have been killed or injured in the
attacks.

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	Witnesses who visited Zvornik said the town's residents had
fled and that the flag of Serbia flew over the police station.
	Western diplomats said that of 20,000 Muslims who fled the
district of 50,000 people, about 8,000, mostly women and children,
were gathered in a field near the village of Lidije.
	``These people are without any shelter, any food or
practically any hope,'' Jose-Maria Mendiluce, the chief of the U.N.
High Commission on Refugees, said on Sarajevo Television.
	Mendiluce made an impassioned plea to all of the warring sides
to allow U.N. aid workers to bring relief supplies to the estimated
100,000 refugees -- from both Bosnia-Hercegovina and neighboring
Croatia -- being housed in the republic.
	The Serbian Volunteer Force, led by reputed Belgrade
underworld boss Zeljko ``Arkan'' Raznjatovic, forced the surrender
Thursday of Zvornik with two days of artillery fire. Yugoslav troops
and tanks then joined the guerrillas in occupying the mostly Muslim
town.

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