multi-ethnic Bosnia is being prepared by the Serbian government. Because of the refusal of the Bosnian government to agree a threeway split of Bosnia, the 'Yugoslav' army - in reality the army of Serbia and its ally Montenegro - is mobilising to crush Bosnian resistance.
Tanks, artillery, anti-aircraft guns and other weapons are pouring into Bosnian territory together with Serbian troops, UN officials have reported. They are preparing a spring offensive.
Now that the Serb Chetniks have failed to crack the Bosnian resistance in Sarajevo and the area around Tuzla, the regular army is being called in to smash them.
If such an assault is launched against the Bosnia government troops, who are hobbled by the international arms embargo, there could be a much bigger bloodbath than has already occurred.
Ethnic cleansing will look like a pic-nic compared with the slaughter if the Yugoslav army were to break into the major New and updated edition of ARMAGEDDON IN EUROPE Weapons are pouring in to arm Serbian aggressors in Bosnia centres of Bosnian population.
The new Serbian mobilisation comes when the Croat HVO and other militias are engaged in a major offensive in central Bosnia. The Serb and Croat governments have signed their own 'peace' deal, effectively leaving both sides free to concentrate on defeating the Bosnians.
The assassination of British aid worker Paul Goodhall is part of the continuing attempt to obstruct aid getting to the people in and around Tuzla.
The killing shows the necessity to open Tuzla airport, easily within the power of the UN, to ensure that aid gets to the central Bosnian population.
The Western powers have refused to do this because they are using aid, supplied with an eye-dropper, to pressurise the Bosnian leadership into accepting the carve-up deal.
It is not true that the conflict in ex-Yugoslavia is a 'civil war' International, cost just £25. A saving of £20!
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months. between three groups of nationalists, equally responsible. The war, and the rise of ethnic nationalism, was pioneered and launched by the Serbian leadership in Belgrade - as a means of popular mobilisation to keep them in power.
Bosnia has for centuries been a multi-ethnic, multi-national entity. They have resisted the attempt to carve up ex-Yugoslavia on the reactionary basis of single-nation states.
Hundreds of thousands have been killed in this war, and two million made refugees. But the war could last a lot longer.
The people resisting aggression from Serb and Croat forces in multi-ethnic Bosnia deserve our solidarity and support. The campaign and convoys run by International Workers Aid are an important means not just of practical support, but of political pressure on Western leaders to life the arms embargo.
Yugoslavia is dead an cannot be rebuilt. The only way forward now is through establishing the right of self-determination - and that means for Bosnia as much as for Croatia and Serbia.
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