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For six months - 12 issues: Surface rate: Britain £9; rest of the world £12. Air mail: Australasia, Russian troops are the guarantors of partition acceptable to Serbia.
Since both Tudjman and Miloševic are being offered considerably more than they could win on the battlefield they will not need too much persuading.
We are still a long way from a peaceful settlement. There is no guaranteed right for people to return to their homes. Indeed the proposed 'cantons' make such a right highly unlikely since they will be de facto ethnically based, whatever the promises in New York.
Internal battles inside all three communities are likely, as well as between nationalist forces and those defending a multi-national Bosnia. Former President of Herceg-Bosna Mate Boban was removed by Tudiman to make this deal possible but his Herzegovinian supporters may well reject federation with Muslims.
Moreover the fascist HOS has been in favour of maintaining a unitary Bosnian state - so that the whole of Bosnia could be swallowed up by Croatia!
Fears of the consequences of the deal have already been voiced by Serbs in the Croatian Krajina who believe that they will be abandoned by Miloševic.
The Croat-Muslim federation would cut off their supply routes from Serbia, while Tudjman has stated he will only allow UN forces to remain in Croatia if he is allowed control over Serb areas.
Since Serb gunners continue to shell Bihac from inside the United Nations Protected Areas in Croatia any peace deal would depend on disarming them. Whether done by Tudjman or the UN it would be resisted by the Krajina Serbs, increasing the difficulties of Miloševic whose authority amongst the Serbs of Croatia is under challenge.
Serbs who fought inside the Bosnian Armija or stayed in the cities to defend a multi-national state will now come under pressure from all sides since their position in a CroatMuslim state is far from clear -particularly a federation linked to Croatia.
The fundamentalist minority of Muslims will obviously oppose the deal since it removes the possibility of an Islamic state in any form. But it is also far from clear that many Muslims would want to live in a divided Bosnia in which they would be under constant threat of annexation by Tudjman.
The imperialists know that the imposition of 'peace' is not going to be easy. That is why General Rose is demanding more troops. But we should be under no illusions what the role of those troops will be: the partition of Bosnia by whatever means necessary. IWA Video now available