"That's not something we're interested in". Croats -- whose leader, Mr. Tudjman, has apologized to the Jews for past anti-Semitic writings -- now claim to be interested chiefly in peaceful solutions.
Hardly any Muslim refugees have been able to return to their homes in Croat-or Serb-controlled parts of Bosnia.
The HDZ has the more acute form of border blindness: from Mostar, it runs the "Community of Herceg-Bosna", which distributes Croatian textbooks to schools in Croat-dominated western Hercegovina, pays pensions and siphons off revenue.
In Croat-dominated areas of western Bosnia, hardline Croats successfully staged a referendum, against western wishes, to back their demand for a "sovereign" statelet that would be fenced off from the Muslims.
The first two indictments against Milosevic charge that he planned and ordered campaigns of terror, theft and murder against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in 1999 and against Croats in Croatia in 1990-91.
Many communities in the region dislike the state they live in: Serbs and Croats in Bosnia, Muslims in Serbia, Albanians in Macedonia, or even Hungarians in Slovakia and Turks in Cyprus.
None of these efforts reconciled conflicting views about the nature of the state, until in 1939 Croat and Serb leaders negotiated the formation of a new prefecture uniting Croat areas under a single authority with a measure of autonomy.
The reformer Komšić, limited to two terms, was succeeded in the Croat seat on the presidency by the nationalist party boss Dragan Čović, with 52percentt of the vote.
I spent three years talking with Boskailo, a respected psychiatrist in Phoenix, about the year he spent in the Croat-run camps in the 1990s.
