Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 21, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free december yugoslav pm quits Over lavish War budget croat politician already powerless figure Reuters Flap Belgrade As croatian forces battled serbian militiamen and the Federal army yugoslav prime minister Ante Markovic re signed to protest a proposed 1992 budget he says Aims at continuing the a said 81 per cent of the draft budget would go toward the serbian led Federal army which was quite beyond the control of the Federal government and that the Only Way the funds could be found was by printing so it is unacceptable to me to pro pose the War budget and 1 cannot and will not do he told a Brief news who was born of croat Ian parents in the Republic of Bosnia Herzegovina and ran a government based in the had struggled for More than two years to hold the Balkan federation together and Reform its diplomats said although he had Al ready become a powerless figure head his departure was a further sign of the collapse of a United Yugoslavia and would strengthen serbian control of Federal under the his Resigna Tion automatically dissolves the entire but Cabinet Mem Bers were remaining in office in a caretaker shortly before the news Confer Bosnia Herzegovina became the fourth of Yugoslavia six republics to say it would seek International recognition As an Independent but Bosnia volatile ethnic mix of serbs and croats Means its secession is unlikely to pass Funchal and the european Community called for in peacekeeping forces to move in urgently to pre empt a possible Macedonia asked for International recognition on leaving Only Serbia and its ally Montenegro in the european Community has said earlier this week it will recognize Croatia and Slovenia As Independent states on six months of fighting in where the serb minority rebelled against the Prospect of an Independent has taken a terrible toll of life and yesterday brought some of the sharpest exchanges so with artillery and fed eral army planes in action in several in nato Secretary Gen eral Manfred Woerner said the West Ern Alliance would take appropriate measures if the conflict spilled Over into neighbouring in the German government said it would present Croatia and Slovenia with formal notes of recognition by ahead of the dec the Vatican said it too was ready to recognize predominantly roman Catholic Croatia and a statement said the move was not aimed against any but blamed the serb led Federal army for burying chances of dec foreign meeting on the fringe of the nato conference in warned Croatia against mounting a counterattack to Recap Ture about on third of its territory lost in the the dec said recognition of the breakaway Republic would be put at risk by any a in observer group began to inspect trouble spots in seeking signs of a ceasefire which would give a full scale in Force a Chance to Josie to Fazlic is one of last to remain in his devastated by Federal yugoslavian i Little tikes sports Cycle exciting 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until duct Mytr the bloody corpses of Branko Seg Aries father and brother were heaved into Black plastic body bags at radars he could recognize them Only by their my brother had one Finger miss ing and my father had crippled that How i knew it was a weathered 37 year old croat construction recalled in a deep hoarse he said their faces were blown apart by bullets fired at close stories like this have become com Mon from both the croatian and ser Bian sides in Yugoslavia civil reports of massacres and abductions feed suspicions inherited from a violent Balkan confirmed or they spawn demands for re Venge that frustrate attempts to halt one of Europe bloodiest conflicts since the second world survivors said 11 members of Seg Aries family were slain after serb insurgents backed by yugoslav army soldiers marched into Saab Ernie on Segaric hid in the a pathologists report said at least 45 croat villagers were 40 from close they were buried in a common grave in a Dalmatian port 20 Kilometres West of fifty More villagers Are i dont know if i could Ever live there but ill go Back at least to free the ruins of my Segaric All i live for now is added his Ante who lost 20 croats in Zadar played Down re ports that scores of serbs vanished from 57 Kilometres North with Many believed serb villagers fleeing into neigh Boring Bosnia Tell How they were forced from their local re opposition activists and Law yers report other deaths or Digap leaders of Croatia ber ethnic serb minority refuse to live in the Independent Croatia pro claimed june they Are haunted by memories of mass killings by croat fascists backed by nazi Ger Many in the second world croats remember murders by ser Bian Ultra nationalist chetnik units and by communist Yugoslavia civil War during the second world War was and brutality has spiralled former neighbors and school chums have become the most bitter and cruel of foes in Village after Vil Lage on obscure Rogic and Segaric said survivors of once Home to compiled a list of 52 serbs from surrounding villages recognized during the nothing but rough estimates Are but credible reports Indi Cate hundreds May have died in Mas thousands have died in he Rozics 60yearold Mother Zorka said she huddled in a cellar with 50 other villagers until a masked Man poked his head in and threatened to throw a hand grenade unless they came we came they pushed the i men against the Wall and said nothing would happen to but when they t All came out they shot them of she counting on her 1 she said the army finally halted the but not before one woman i who tried to Stop it was shot Down and j her body crushed by a i even among moderate is concern afe but alleged Troj ties committed by ;