Germany, which took in 15,000 Kosovo refugees, has said all returns will be voluntary this year. Until recently, the Croatian government wanted to keep it that way, reports The Economist . Then last year, after considerable arm-twisting from America and the European Union, which pointed out that most of the 300,000 or so Serb refugees were still Croatian citizens, Tudjman's government decided they could come home after all. Some 57,000 are back. The main disincentive is the miserable life awaiting Serbs who do return home.
Aid is minimal.
Even so, few are likely to go back to Krajina. Some of the Serbs now fleeing Kosovo may well end up back in Croatia-in the villages they fled in 1995. This document is intended for public information purposes only. It is not an official UN document.