European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Two bosnian Hospital workers help a patient to safety during an artillery attack last week on Sarajevo s Kosovo Hospital. A crowd of 10,000 gathered in Istanbul recently to show Solidarity with the muslims of Bosnia some experts Turkey could be drawn into a Balkan Ivar. Byjoe Aschenback National geographic he Balkan Peninsula already the site of the worst european blood Bath since world War ii is in danger of igniting into an All engulfing conflict. A widened War would be the destructive legacy of the Balkan heritage of ethnic and religious hatred that was unchained with the collapse of communism. More than 22,000 . Peacekeepers military observers and civilian police have been deployed in Croatia Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. An additional 800 have recently been positioned inside the still unrecognized Independent Republic of Macedonia along its Borders with Albania and the Kosovo Region of Serbia. This symbolic show of Force underscores . Fears that the War in Bosnia and the nationalistic goal of a greater Serbia could spread into Kosovo and Macedonia pulling Albania Bulgaria Greece and Turkey into the struggle. The Clinton administration has made the Balkan crisis a top foreign policy priority. The once largely autonomous province of Kosovo 90 percent ethnic albanian and mostly Muslim is a powder Keg. Serbian nationalists View Kosovo the heartland of medieval Serbia As a kind of serbian Palestine. The macedonian people Are prepared psychologically for War. Everyone has two suitcases packed says Ljubica z. Anevska Macedonia s . Representative who recently returned to Washington from a visit to the poorest and most overlooked of the former yugoslav republics. If is a precarious and dangerous situation. There is a buildup of serbian troops in Kosovo. It s really a very very gloomy picture she says. The Balkans could it happened at the beginning of this Century. After the Balkan wars 1912-13aceska notes the Large geographic Region of Macedonia was divided among Serbia Bulgaria and Greece. Greece got More than half. There Are now disturbances on the macedonian Border she says. The serbs Are putting up posters of serbian president Slobodan Milosevic and other serbian leaders on our land and calling it serbian. There Are the types of skirmishes that happened in Croatia and Bosnia. The serbs Are following a North South scenario. When they finish with Bosnia they will focus on Kosovo and the serbs Anevska said still regard Macedonia As part of Southern Serbia. Currently the Balkans Are split among 10 Independent states Albania Bulgaria Greece Romania the european part of Turkey Yugoslavia the two former republics of Serbia and Montenegro Croatia Slovenia Bosnia and the Balkan powder Keg fighting among the nations formerly within Yugoslavia has effects on other states in the Region because of Cross Border ethnic loyalties and rivalries. It is feared that these tensions could boil Over into a larger regional War. Some of the motivations of these nations and the forces at their disposal Bulgaria Romania Austria Neutral a or i was vocal m its support of and Bosnia and Hungary about 300 000 eth hungarians inhabit Serbia s Northern to vol a Region that once belonged to Hungary although Hungary does not claim the Region persecution porous Borde Ion Sta cd a j r1 r a i i r \ t t h has shied away from providing � the minority by serbian refugees use a a b i_.,, f ii.-. A .--.tary assistance for the forme Croatia and provinces of the Ajro hungarian Bosnia and Verze Goyma could put Empire a cod a h serbian increased pres e on Budapest to my e Cice Vav Sebia the Pas 10 i air fair n at Acks in to m a m Litty into x o in he f Yugoslavia s Utvik change that sad 52.000 a to t cops 200.000 Reserve a cups 159 main Bat e tanks 54 combat Ai pm 80 800 it Tiam us no l nicer cab Lymui a pts � 18 a the stars and stripes wednesday february 34, 1993
