Two out of every three of the displaced people or refugees are aged under 20. If they cannot get protection and food inside ex-Yugoslavia this winter they will move to other European countries.
Most of the refugees inside the former Yugoslavia are ethnic Bosnians. By the end of July they accounted for 1,285,000 out of 1,884,500. Almost half of them (681,000) are still in Bosnia itself.
But many of them might want to get out as soon as there is an opportunity. The Guardian (August 8, 1992) gave an example of what some of them experience:
"Mortars crashed into a Sarajevo hotel filled with refugees last night, setting it ablaze and sending frightened people screaming into darkened streets. At least two people died. Hours after the bombs exploded on the roof, the Hotel Europe, home to 1,500 refugees, was still burning.
"A series of other explosions crackled around Sarajevo. Some reports from the scene said that when refugees nea from ine burning bullding, snipers fled from the burning building, snipers opened fire on them".
### Hypocrisy and feigned surprise
According to Jonathan Eyal, director of studies at the Royal United Services Institute, this refugee crisis "was utterly predictable and is unlikely to be solved unless the mixture of hypocrisy and feigned surprise adopted by many European governments is quickly abantoned
"Most knew what to expect for some time: since early 1991 intelligence reports warned about the dangers of a Yugoslav civil war and forecast a refugee crisis would be one of the most ex-YUGOSLAVIA Snapshots from Europe