Violence, black market exploitation and prostitution are increasing. Food supplies arrive but distribution is chaotic with people fighting over supplies. Health services are nearly non-existent and lack of water increases the risk of disease. Two Canadian companies, an engineering unit and seven military observers are there. Preparations are being made for a potential exodus of up to 10,000 people, many of them refugees from Srebenica.
Health services are strained and tuberculosis and hepatitus are on the increase.
The population in the Tuzla area has reached 1 million with 250,000 in Tuzla proper. Three U.N. military observers are in the town. The European Community's top foreign policy official appealed for military intervention in Bosnia. Other than keeping the conflict between the Serbs and the Muslims from spreading beyond Bosnia, Christopher said, the war does not involve the strategic interests of the United States. On May 6, for example, after the Serbs rejected a peace plan Clinton portrayed the conflict as a war of aggression and said it was in the interest of the United States to stop it.