Socialist Outlook

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Milosevic attacks Bosnia-Herzegovina

Socialist Outlook no. 20, April 17 1992 · 196 words

Balkans

FOLLOWING his against Croatia, reactionary Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic has unleashed stage two of his plan to create a 'Greater Serbia' - an attempt to seize large areas of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The republic, whose inde pendence has just been recognised by the EC, is ethnically mixed between Croats, Serbs and Muslims.

A referendum on inde pendence saw a huge majority of Croats and Muslims voting in favour. ( Milosevic's response has been to launch an military offensive to seize territory, while (as in the war against Croatia) he combines arming local Sero militias with an advance of the Serb-dominated Yugoslav ast Friday Bosnian presi lent Alija Izebegovic said 3000 people were being. held prisoner by Sero irregulars in Zvornik.

The scene is being set for a huge military attack on Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital. Unlike Croatia, Bosnian forces are not well-armed and in a position to fight back against the federal army.

The basic issues in Bosnia are identical to those in the The degenerate Serb-nationalist leadership waging another aggressive war to seize terntory trom a people who want inde pendence.

Socialists must demand the Witnarawal of the reacrar army and defend Bosnia's right to self-determination.

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