The Dayton accords, which brought an end to the war in Bosnia in 1995, in fact gave approval and legitimacy to three years of ethnic cleansing and separated the population according to their nationality. More than a million of those displaced during the war are still not able to return to their homes. During the 1940s when Yugoslavia was occupied by the Nazis, Croatia's fascist government organized ethnic cleansing and wiped out half a million Serbs. Today the situation is once again in the hands of the workers - those who gain nothing from national confrontation. The alternative is once again a united fight against imperialism and the reactionary nationalism of Milosevic and Tudjman.
Any solution based on the creation of new capitalist states is bound to fail.
It wouldn't be much more than an American protectorate and a source of permanent instability. The only way forward that can guarantee a future of peace and stability lies with the struggle for transformation of Balkan society, throwing the capitalists and their lackeys out on their ear. A democratically planned economy and a society lead by the working class would both do away with national hatred and free up the tremendous human and material resources that exist.