THE WALLS of Dubrovnik are crumbling. The death toll among both Serbs and Croats is estimated at ten thousand, and could well be more.
At least one third of Croat industry is in ruins. And any solution to the contiict looks as far away as ever - despite the Lord 480888 Carrington's thirteenth attempted ceasefire.
Appeals for military intervention from either the UN - are multiplving, inoutside the beleaguered state. To many Croats, it must appear the only agreements to end the masBut these are not the forces Page 10 Nov. 23, 1991 No. 12 thandence noresce Croats. pendence the Croats. of these bodies - even the 'neutral' UN-would add up to the end of any hope for real independence The UN showed its true colours during the Gulf war -the stars and sipes unact a blue cover. A Croatia born through military by the West would be a statelet controlled by the West. and would give legitimacy to the into any European conflict, guns blazing.
It is oniy the seros, the Croats and the other peoples of lasting *bia do not want this war. The people of There is ample evidence that large numbers of Serb conscripts are deserting And as more and more corpses return from the killing fields of Vukovar, Vinkovei and Dubrovnik and the queues for basic supplies get longer, To the war will mount. It is trus waea s now forcing Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic to begin to look for some way out.
Meanwhile, the other peoples of Yugoslavia - in Bosnia' and Macedonia - are demanding their independence. Slobodan Milosevic cannot noia them au aown oy force indefinitely.
It is this, and popular revulsion at the slaughter, that can achieve a just solution for the Serb and Croat peoples. Neither the UN, nor the EC or NATO, have any positive role to play. Serbian lesder: Milosevic