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QUTLOOK Arm the Bosnian resistance!

Socialist Outlook no. 42, May 15 1993 · 401 words

Balkans

main victim has been multi-ethnic Bosnia. lages of their non-Serb populations. incorporating a large share of Bosnia into Croatia. for the West to open its borders to retugees. want 100 per cent. of Bosnia. of the civilian population. separate nations: but that includes Bosnia as well. THE DEATH TOLL in ex-Yugoslavia is approaching a quarter of a million. More than two million people have been forced to become refugees. The Greater Serbia project unleashed by the Milosevic regime in Belgrade in its war against Croatia and Bosnia has unleashed ethnic hatred and genocide. But the Act One on the Bosnian tragedy was the onslaught of the Serb chetnik forces, besieging Sarajevo and 'ethnically cleansing' vilAct Two is the attack by the Croatian HVO militia, aimed at Bosnia is being devastated and its population massacred because it lacks the weapons to defend itself. The arms embargo on ex-Yugoslavia is, in effect, an arms embargo against Bosnia. The urgent need of the Bosnian people is to be able to defend themselves, and Talk of military intervention by the West is a cover for the decision by the US, Western Europe and its UN allies to abandon Bosnia to its fate. The Vance-Owen 'peace plan' already amounts to the destruction of Bosnia, giving the serbs in particular 95per percent of their demands. If the Bosnian Serbs refuse to sign, it is because they Military intervention by the West would only impose the carve-up Douglas Hurd said giving arms to the Bosnians would only create a 'level killing field'. But the alternative is a one-sided killing field. Massacres and ethnic cleansing take place when there is no defence There is now no solution for the conflict which doesn't start from the right of the different republics of ex-Yugoslavia to exist as Open Britain's borders to Bosnian refugees - demonstration 5th June central London; ring 081-694 9799 Jor octans Outlook! Subscribe today. sues) £15. 6 months (12 isues) £8. £11. I include a donation of £... NAME... ADDRESS Send to Socialist Outlook PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU

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