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- THE WEEK, Page 13WORLDSame Old Story
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- Belgrade redraws the country's borders, but the fighting
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- What remains of Yugoslavia pretends to be a country, but even
- its own army doesn't seem to know where its borders are. Last
- Monday Serbia and Montenegro, the only two of the six republics
- not to declare independence, announced the establishment of a
- new Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The constitution of the
- remapped Yugoslavia recognizes, at least for now, that its
- territory ends at the shared border with Bosnia-Herzegovina.
- Diplomats optimistically interpreted that fact as a renunciation
- of Belgrade's prior claims that Serbs in any of the republics
- had a right to belong to an expanded Serbian state.
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- But try telling Belgrade that its own constitution proves
- that the Serb-led Yugoslav army is now an occupying force on
- the foreign soil of Bosnia. One week into a new cease-fire,
- fighting continued unabated in at least five towns, as well as
- the capital city of Sarajevo. In a letter to Bosnian officials,
- army chief of staff General Blagoje Adzic refused to remove his
- troops, which number as many as 100,000.
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