The winners are criminals and thieves, demagogues and warmongers, the ideologues of totalitarianism, of one nation and one state, controlled by one party. The defeated are those who believed people find happiness in justice and diversity. Between such sides, there can only be control but never peace. For the first year, things will all go according to plan. But the cease-fire will last only as long as Milosevic, Tudjman and the Western powers need it to last.
Refugees are, by definition, angry, frustrated and bitter people.
In the final analysis, those who stole their homes and made them what they are will never be able to rule over them. And those returning exiles will want to know why the mighty and powerful covered for the criminals and left the expelled and those deprived of their rights to fend for themselves. We respect the right of the powerful to pursue their own domestic interests at our expense. Politics after all is politics. But reality is also reality.