UN setting sights on a racist carve-up of Bosnia United Secretariat of the Fourth International statement: THURSDAY MAY 25th, 8.30 pm. Everything has been quiet for more than a week in Tuzla. The weather is perfect; a sunny, late spring day. A perfect day for a stroll.
Many young people meet here; they have no money or opportunity to do anything else. Discotheques are closed, there are no other amusements. As always, the centre of activity is Kapija, an old square, which is filled with people, most of them between 18 and 25 years old. There is no indication that a disaster is about to happen.
Six people are studying Bosnian in the HCA office. Around 9pm there is a big bang. Everybody drops to the floor. Panic. Seconds later, you can hear the screaming, the moaning. People come in to the office, most of them hysPieces of what used to be human beings are strewn across Kapija. In the hospital people are operated on in corridors because there is not enough space in the theatres.
Hundreds of people come hoping to find their children, friends, relatives among the wounded. Many find them among the dead.
Pain
In the morning the pain is even worse. Slowly realisation comes: a huge part of Tuzla's and Bosnia's future has been killed. TV Tuzla reports 65 deaths and over 100 wounded, almost all between 18 and 25.
The city is picking up the pieces. The atmosphere is of dejection and helplessness. nies the Bosnian Muslims the If the international commueven though there maybe it will convince the Bosfind a diplomatic solution. The manpower, and if they have might be able to deter the BosThe Bosnian Muslims, like want this war. They would like and Serbs together, as neighbours, as colleagues, as friends.