From: dmatic@athena.mit.edu (Davor Matic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.yugoslavia
Subject: Re: Muhamed Filipovic in "DANAS"
Date: 16 Apr 92 04:33:06 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In article <1992Apr15.190644.11140@husc3.harvard.edu>, stojanov@husc8.harvard.edu (Milan Stojanovic) writes:
|> In Croatian weekly "DANAS" there is an underlined 
|> statement that muslims would on a long run win the all-out
|> civil war against Serbs, because they would have more backing abroad.
|> The statement was made by Muhamed Filipovic, one of the
|> leading islamic intelectuals in Bosnia and one of the leaders of the MBO. 
|> 
|> This statement reveals, inadvertently, the main reason why 
|> muslim and Croat leaders in Bosnia and Hercegovina were pushing 
|> for independence, before clearly defining teritories that would 
|> belong to the each nation. They hope that by provoking Serbs
|> they would at the end manage to get rid of them. The stupidity of this
|> approach is that everyone will loose at the end.  
|> 
|> Regards,
|> 
|> Milan

Why believe in something simple and obvious when we can complicate things
infinitely?  Who want's to provoke Serbs after what happend in Croatia?  
That's a suicide.  No one needs to provoke Serbs as long as they have 
their own RTV media from Belgrade.  They get the best provocations and
motivations from there.  Anyway, I really don't see the reasons for Serbs
being persecuted in B&H.  They can't play the same fascist accusation song
they used in Croatia.  This time they are too transparent.  And they see 
that themselves.  That's why they are being less civilized and cautious.
This time around, their international image is absolutely negative.  There
is nothing to lose if they play dirty -- so they do.  

Here are some international newsclips (reprinted without premission):

				***

	SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Hercegovina (UPI) -- Serbian forces Monday renewed
attacks in violation of a new European Community-brokered truce,
prompting a Muslim defense chief to unleash from a dam torrents of water
toward low-lying populated areas along the border with Serbia, news
reports and officials said.

				***

	Just after 5 p.m., a lone MiG-21 jetfighter of the Serb-dominated
Yugoslav army soared over Sarajevo and shattered the sound barrier in a
massive boom that shook buildings and sent panic-stricken residents
fleeing indoors.
	``Will they bomb us tonight?'' asked a terrified woman as she
comforted her young son in an apartment building hallway.

				***

	Serbian forces led by the Yugoslav army consolidated their grip on
the eastern town of Visegrad and shelled nearby Foca, while Yugoslav air
force jets attacked the Croatian town of Siroki Brijeg, witnesses and
Sarajevo Television said.
	In Sarajevo, Serbian units holding hills overlooking the city loosed
intermittent mortar and small arms fire that put the municipal tram
system out of service.

				***

	The U.S. representative to the Conference on Security and Cooperation
in Europe proposed in Helsinki Wednesday that Yugoslavia be removed from
the organization if it does not cease hostilities in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
	State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler said the U.S.
representative, John Kornblum, also told the CSCE that Bosnia-
Hercegovina should be granted ``emergency'' membership in the group if
Yugoslavia fails to act.

				***

	Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence
Eagleburger Wednesday ``underscored our grave concern and our
condemnation of Serbian aggression against Bosnia'' to Yugoslavia's
ambassador to the United States, Dzevad Mujedinovic.
	``Our message to Serbian civilian and military authorities is that if
they continue their aggression against Bosnia and to deny human rights
to Serbia's own citizens, Serbia will very quickly become an
international pariah,'' Tutwiler said.