of the UN peacekeeping force arrived, it looked as if the Yugoslav civil war was dying down. Probably 10,000 people have been killed.
Horrific evidence of fearful massacres of Croatian civilians has been. discovered. And now the EC, led by Germany, has recognised Croatia and Serbia as inlependent states Why has this war beer fought, and what is its outcome? It is likely that the independence of Croatia and Slovenia will stick, at least in the long run.
The Serbian leadership in Belgrade, and the generals of the Serbian-dominated federal army, in all likelihood never thought they could prevent it. The final prevention of the independence of these two republics was not their The origin of the civil war was in the economic crisis of the old Yugoslav federal state.
ued led to the capture of the leadership of the Serbian Communists ( and republic by Slobodan Milosevic, promoting a degenerate Great Serb not Slovene or killed the Yugoslav federation, but Milosevic's atavistic Serbian nationalism.
The first fruits of Milosevic's rule was the violent repression in the late 1980s of the ethnical. ly Albanian population in the Serbian province of Kosovo. He figured he could keep power in Serbia, and reinforce serbian domination of the federation by using the nationalist card.
One of the real achieve ments of Yugoslavia was to provide a federal framework which redistributed to the USELE republics from the richer, and in which ethnic tensions were attenuated by political legality between republics, crystallised in the collective presidency.
Of course Yugoslavia had a bureaucratic neo-Stalinist regime. But it is Milosevic's historical crime that the degenerate faction of the Serbian bureaucracy he leads unYugoslavia once again. In the end ethnic rabble-rousing rebounded on Milosevic. He effectively stirred up nationalism in the other republics: right-wing nationalism in Serbia reactionary nationalism in Croatia It is completely false to imagine that Serbia and the Yugoslav federal army are the force defending socialised Over time, all of Yugos capitalism. Once the civil war started Milosevic and his forces sought to maximise the territory under their control, and especially to seize territory from Croatia.
The outcome now will almost certainly be an inde sendent Croatia and Slovenia.
the Serbdominated Yugoslavia, the scene is set for further ethnic conflict. Half a dozen small C88808 capitalism could be the result.
Socialists who argued that all sides were equally to blame in this war made a mistake Croatia has the right to self-determination especially when attacked by Serbian forAs the USSR has shown, federation at gunpoint is an impossibility. Federation under a ackboot deserves to be rebelled against.