ex-YUGOSLAVIA A turning point in the war? LESS than a week after the end of the London Peace Conference, fighting has intensified throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina. On Sunday August 30 Serb militia fired an accurately placed shell into a Sarajevo market leading to further carnage among the hungry people waiting in a queue which they hoped would have bread at the end of it. This new crime against unarmed people - supposedly under the protection of United Nations troops - showed how little respect the Serb forces have for the agreements reached at the negotiating table. SLAVKO MIHALJCEK — September 3, 1992
Even if some Bosnian towns will have to be surrendered, the Serb leaders reckon that the conquest of more than a third of Croatia and a half of Bosnia amounts, in fact, to the creation of a Greater Serbia.
The Belgrade media have noted with satisfaction that the conciliatory attitude of the Western leaders amounts to an acceptance of the new realities created on the ground by the war. A few commentators have expressed their concern about the "negative impact" of the discovery of the "detention camps" for Muslims and have advised they be closed "to improve the international image of Serbia". The arrest of the head of a royalist militia accused of committing massacres in Bosnia is predicted. However Milosevic still considers Seselj, the head of the neo-fascist party in Serbia, to be his most reliable ally.