YUGOSLAVIA EVENTS CHRONOLOGY MAY-AUGUST 1996 May 1 Clinton behind plan to keep full NATO pk force in Bos. until after Sept. elections, US officials also try to postpone discus- sions on est. multilateral mil. group to supplement intl. police force so as to evaluate rels. between warring factions in late summer; some US pks probably will re- main after Dec. 20; US govt. to mediate Kos. conflict; Elec. to be held for Mos. on May 31; Serbia releases 5 Mus. who were among 800 refs. who had fled there after fall of Sreb., Zepa; Sacirbey tells WCT Gen. Djorde Djukic is link be- tween Bel., Serb genocide campaigns; Cro. govt. shuts down ind. paper Panaroma sup- posedly for viol. nat. envir. and property leg. May 2 Bos. fed. police in Trnovo say IFOR pre- sence not welcome after Serbs prevent Mus. from returning to graves, homes, says Serbs will not be allowed freedom of move.; Bos. Serbs release 4 Bos. Croats suspected of being war crims.; Bos. govt. arrests 2 Mus. wanted by WCT for atrocities commited at Celebici detention ctr. in '92; Tudj. criticizes Zag. opp. saying lack of firm- ness led to rise of Nazism in Ger.; Bos. Serb PM Kasagic says he sides w/ Milo. as 'he is a realist' May 3 Cro. police interrogate editor of Feral Tribune, Viktor Ivancic May 4 Kasagic says they will allow investigation into war crimes in Bijeljina area; Izet. in Gor. says 'our struggle will not be over until the whole of Bos. is free'; Bel. says they will not pay $20 mil. owed to IMF, World Bank May 6 US Ass. Sec. of State John Kornblum says Bos. Serbs may face new sanctions if they continue to harbor suspected war crims.; Dragutin Ilic, head of Soc. Party in BH, accuses Kara. of bombing campaign against opposition; Cro. formally charges 5 Bos. w/ attempting to kill Abdic, sixth man accused of aiding 'intl. terrorism'; Cro. govt. adopts law granting amnesty to rebel Serbs in E. Sla.; Rus. IFOR sol. killed; Serb and Intl. Police Force find bodies of 4 Serb civs. kidnapped and killed by supposed Mus. terr. group near Milici May 7 First war crimes trial opens w/ charges against Dusan Tadic for ethnic cleansing in Prijedor region in '92; Sara. paper Slobodna Bosna says Kara. held secret talks w/ Tudj. in Cro. previous week, but Cro. emb. denies this; Cro. reopens Bel-Zag. to civ. traffic for first time since '91 May 8 Bos. govt. releases 2 Serbs after WCT says there is no reason to hold them for war crimes, Serbs then release 3 Mus.; UN Sec. Coun. calls on Bel. to arrest 3 for killings of civs. in Vukovar in '91, says it 'deplores' Bel.'s lack of effort to arrest war crims.; Ger. hands over to WCT Mus. Zejnil Delalic for war crims. (1st Mus. sent to Hague), some charges dropped against Tadic for lack of witnesses; IFOR sol. found with gunshot wound to head in Visegrad,possibly suicide; US assigns dip. to Kos. on temp. basis as first step toward opening USIA office in Pristina, Chris. discusses Kos. w/ Alb. FM Alfred Serreqi; US signs ac- cord on closer def. coop. w/ Slo. May 9 UNHCR High Comm. Sadako Ogata says dead- lines on return of refs. unrealistic; OSCE condemns continuing presence of in- dicted war crims. on Bos. terr. in pre- lude to elec.; Chris. warns Bel. that US will maintain 'outer wall' of sanc- tions until Kos. situation alleviated; approx. 15,000 workers demonstrate in Nis for 2nd day over wage demands, shares in companies they work for; head of Cro. Hel. Comm. Ivan Cicak sues state- run paper Vjesnik for libel over its charges he worked for comm. secret pol. May 10 Cro. Con. Ct. overrules Tudj. 6-4 in favor of opposition suit against his dissolution of Zag. city coun. May 11 US, Bos. admit that arms pipelines from Iran, Turkey were larger than originally admitted to, and included Pakistan, Malay- sia, Saudi Arabia, and Argentina; NSC ad- visor Lake says US learned of Iran smuggling in '92; Tudj., Izet. meet in Zag. along w/ Muratovic, Zubak, and Ganic, reach agree- ment on return of refs. to Bugojno and Travnik (Mus.-held) and Stolac and Jajce (Cro.-held) May 12 Yugo. auth. call for 'urgent resumption' of talks w/ IMF, World Bank; Bri. amb. in Bel. calls for Yugo. to open talks w/ Kos. shadow state govt. May 13 Bos. Serbs refuse US request to turn over 7 Mus. handed over to Bos. Serb police after they were seen in Serb-held territory; UNHCR High Comm. Ogata warns that premature return of 700,000 refs. from other coun- tries could 'destabilize the fragile peace' May 14 CofE FMs vote to delay Cro. membership due to its failure to apply 21-pt. program on dem. agreed to previous month; Cro-Mus. fed. top officials in Wash. for forum on fed., sign agreement to unite armed forces under common def. min. within 3 yrs. May 15 Kara. fires PM Kasagic, claims he wasn't up to the task; Ganic, UN official calls for arrest of Kara., Mladic, says Dayton Accords will not work if they are still in power; Vjesnik says CofE decision not about dem. but Council's nat. ints.; US chief of staff of OSCE mission resigns over decision to hold elec. in BH in Sept. saying it will not have conditions met by then; Nasa Borba says Kara. to run in elec.; Yugo. govt. says WCT to open office in Bel. May 16 Kasagic, in BL, refuses to relinquish post, meets w/ NATO Sec. Gen. Solana, US Gen. Joulwan, and Bildt in a show of their sup- port; Kasagic says Kara. 'leading his people into ruin'; US Nat. Intel. Estimate draft report concludes that Bos. chances for unity are poor esp. if Kara. remains in power; Ger. FM Kinkel meets w/ Milo. in Bel.; No-confidence vote in Slo. FM Zoran Thaler (48-26) results in PM Janez Drnovsek breaking up coalition govt. between his Lib. Dem. Party and Christian Dem. Party; Mac. asks for extension of UN mandate May 18 Kara. names hard-liner Gojko Klickovic to replace Kasagic who immediately rejects pos- sibility of Kara. standing trial for war crimes; Bos. Serb parl. supports move, says Kasagic guilty of 'treason and doing favors for enemies'; Bildt warns that Dayton Accords threatened by move; Kara. also names na- tionalist Biljana Plavsic to represent him in neg. w/ intl. officials; Indicted war crim. Gen. Djordje Djukic dies in Bel. from pancreatic cancer May 19 Bildt, after 5 1/2 hours of talks w/ 3 senior Bos. Serb officials says Kara. has agreed to step down, Bel. TV confirms this but Krajisnik denies this; Pope John Paul II concludes first-ever visit to Slo. af- ter saying mass to 120,000 May 20 Plavsic says Kara. has not resigned but has rt. according to con. to delegate duties to subordinates; Bildt says he will work w/ new Premier Klickovic as well as Kasagic; BL auth. briefly pull plug on ind. Radio Big claiming it has not paid electric bill, radio st. says it is harassment; 200 Bos. sol. officially begin training in Turkey May 21 Ganic says Bos. govt. will not take part in elec. unless indicted war crims. are out of power and refs. can vote from home districts since this would affirm ethnic cleansing, but Hol. says this is now fact of life; NATO reps. say IFOR will not pur- sue war crims. since this would lead to casualties among pks, but Goldstone says this should not be a problem since there are 60,000 troops; UN says Serbs have be- gun demilitarization of E. Sla. after 5,000 UN pk force deployed, telephone lines partially restored May 22 US Special Envoy John Kornblum warns Milo. to arrest Mladic after he appears in public in Bel. previous day, or face renewed sanctions, but State Dept. spokesman Burns says he can be marginalized and elec. will go forward; Oslobodjenje says 7 Mus. handed over to Serbs were tortured, beaten and now being held in Bijeljina; Brcko Serb sec. chief Zarko Cosic says arbitration possible for region, but new PM Klickovic visits town and says it is a Serb 'prior- ity strategic int.'; UNHCR Kris Janowski says no Mus. have returned to homes in Serb-held terr., UN not attempting to enforce freedom of movement, return of refs. provision of Dayton Accords; Radio B-92 says Milo. has told Mladic to prove his innocence at the Hague May 23 Zubak says agreement reached on delaying Mos. elec.; Bos. Serbs prevent govt.-controlled bus from travelling from Ilidza to Lukavica; Tudj. daughter sues Feral Tribune for $635, 000 after paper contends she set up busi- nesses based on govt. connections; Kos. shadow state head Rugova postpones elec. set for May 24 for one year but does not explain why May 24 US says there is no deal over Kara. after several ambiguous statements from US about him, and that US has rejected Milo. offer of letting Kara. drop from sight May 25 Tuzla commemorates 1-yr. anniversary of shelling that killed 71; Tudj. criticizes CofE decision delaying Cro. admission call- ing 'humiliating' and punishment for Cro. refusal to be included in Balkan integration process May 26 Serb civs., police block effort by 44 Mus., Cro. refs. to reenter Bos. Serb terr. near Prijedor May 27 Trial of 5 Mus. arrested for alleged as- sassination attempt on Abdic begins in Rijeka on charges of intl. terr.; Turk, Bos., and Cro. FMs meet in Ankara May 28 Milo. meets w/ senior Bos. Serb officials including Kara., Mladic; UN Sec. Coun. 'deplores' Bel. 'continued failure' to coop w/ WCT; Tudj. says Cro. must be able to arm itself and guard ind. and that he will no longer accept dictates on granting amnesty for E. Sla. Serbs; 200 Mus. refs. prevented from visiting homes in Stolac (s. BH) by Cro. officials; HDZ says it will sue Globus over allegations HDZ is launching smear campaign against 50 oppo- sition politicians May 29 Bridge linking Teocak w/ Bijeljina-Tuzla road (Serb and fed. terr.) blown up; 100 Mus. expellled by Serbs from Teslic (c. Bos.); Bri. TV documentary says Chirac ordered Gen. Janvier to hold off NATO air attacks on Sreb. in exchange for Mladic freeing UN hostages; Zubak announces that US firm Mil. Prof. Resources to train and equip govt. troops; Fed. govt. to resettle 8,000 Mus. from Doboj area in abandoned Serb homes in Sara. according to Oslobodjenje; Rus. FM Primakov meets Milun- tinovic; Yugo. PM Kontic says IMF conditions for further talks 'blackmail'; Serbian govt. restructures w/ Milo.' wife's party (United Yugo. Left) getting positions in cab. May 30 Rus. FM Primakov meets w/ Milo., encour- ages him to fulfill all of Dayton Agreements but Yugo. PM Kontic says Serbia will comply w/ wct only within contexts of nat. law; Intl. mediators in Bos. say they will not work w/ hardliner Biljana Plavsic appointed by Kara.; Dutch FM says he will question Fre. over Sreb. allegations by Bri.; UN Sec. Coun. extends UNPREDEP mandate in Mac. for 6 months May 31 Serb war crimes suspect Drazen Erdemovic admits in Hague to taking part in Sreb. executions but under duress; BL mayor Predrag Radic foils attempt by Kara. forces to oust him at city coun. meeting; EU admin. in Mostar, Ricardo Peres Casado, says elec. to be held June 30, Mus., Cro. refs. in other countries to be able to vote in other countries but Serbs must be pre- sent in Mostar to vote; 1st Cong. of Soc. Party of Republika Srpska held in BL, message read from Milo. wishing them suc- cess in elec., calls for party to 'oppose violence, hate, and all forms of nat. and rel. intolerance'; head of SPRS claims party is ind. of Soc. Party of Serbia June 1 Cro. announces that 87 elderly Croats kill- ed by Serbs in '91 found in 21 graves be- tween Zadar and Knin; #2 civ. official in Bos., Michael Steiner, calls for end to continued expulsions of Mus., Croats from Serb-held areas; Christopher, in Geneva, calls on Milo. to act upon implementation of Dayton Agreements esp. arresting Kara., Mladic June 2 Chris., Bildt, and Contact Group officials begin meetings w/ Milo., Tudj., Izet. in Geneva as US attempts to isolate Kara.; Sacirbey says intl. comm., US pressuring Bos. to hold elec. 'at any price'; HDZ pres. in Mostar, Jadranko Topic, says elec. will not unify city June 3 NATO Sec. Gen. Solana says troops to spread out which will make it difficult for war crims., but State Dept. says they will not be hunted down; Izet. says he and Milo. have agreed to have Bos. govt. del. visit Bel. to discuss restoring comm., eco. ties June 4 US, Ital. pks try to arrest Serb leader Slavko Aleksic in Lukavica for carrying pistol, hand grenade, but crowd of 300 Serb civs. prevent this; 30 Fre. rrf sol. arrive, disarm him, hand him over to Serb police; Krajisnik says there could have been much viol.; 5,000 support- ers of Kara., Mladic meet in Foca; Bos. Cro. auth. say new grave w/ 36 persons found, possibly 50; Cro. FM Granic says Cro. ready to accept CofE conditions for joining, also says he will visit Bel. by end of June, discuss normalization; Mont. Cath. bishop of Kotor Ivo Gugic found murdered in his home June 5 UN finds at least 6 bodies in test dig of mass grave at Nova Kasaba, as many as 2,700 thought to be there, bodies have hands tied behind backs; Jajce grave body count now 63, 20 Mus. killed by Serbs in June '92 found in Jesevo (nw of Sara.) UN monitors say Serbs in Sara. being harassed by Mus. refugees, thugs, and govt. doing little to stop it; UN also says Serb police in Lukavica harassing buses w/ Sara.; WCT pres. Antonio Cassese, in Bel., fails to get speaker of fed. parl. to pass law on extradition of war crims.; US Dept. Sec. of State John Kornblum opens USIA center in Kosovo w/ Rugova in attendance, ctr. not to have dip. role June 6 Both sides causing problems in Mos.; Serbs in E. Sla. reported to be demobil- izing after given order by Serb Gen. Dusan Loncar (5,000 in area) June 8 EU Commission Pres. Jacques Santer and Ital. FM Lamberto Dini reject call for reimposition of sanctions over arrest controversy of Mladic, Kara., call for elections to go ahead; Cro. arrests Zlatko Aleksovski wanted by WCT for massacres of Mus.in BH town of Ahmici in Nov. '93 June 9 Bri. UN pks tell WCT they were tortured by Serbs while held hostage last year; Cro. Social Lib. Party (HSLS), HDZ hold secret neg. on conditions of CofE, media pol., other issues; Crowd of 100 Serbs protest, harass UN reps., Mus. wanting to visit former homes in Koraj (near Doboj) June 10 Milo. tells Der Spiegel that WCT is acting as pol., not legal inst.; Dep. VP of Se- selj's party, Borislav Pelevic, says Serbs need to accept that war is over and they have lost; US banking del. visits Bel.; Slo. signs partnership agreement w/ EU, submits application for membership June 11 Cro. HSLS says no new neg. planned w/ HDZ; EU asks IFOR to reinforce sec. before up- coming Mostar elec.; Bos. govt. auth. have reportedly evicted 11 Cro. families from villages near Travnik, but 4 allowed to return; Soros Foun. reregisters in Bel. as Foun. for an Open Society June 12 US Def. Sec. Perry says he will recommend US keep troops in Bos. past Dec., says NATO might create 'follow-on force' to ensure advantages gained over past half year, but Clin. says mission to be com- pleted by end of year; ICRC says it will accept any info. on fate of 12,000 miss- ing in Bos. (10,805 are Mus., 1,703, Serbs, 217 Cro.) w/ no questions asked; Bos. govt. hand over 2 Mus. wc suspects to Hague; Mac. FM signs mil. coop. agreement w/ NATO; Ethnic Cro. from Travnik allowed to return; HSLS ends neg. w/ HDZ; Seselj says his party to coop. w/ Kara.' SDS in elec. June 13 Intl. conf. on Bos. opens in Florence, splits remain on dates for when elec. to be held (Amer. want it before Nov.) June 14 Disarmament agreement signed by all sides including Yugo., Republika Srpska at Flo. conf., restricts number of tanks, armored veh., art., aircraft and hels.; Bos. Serb pm Klickovic says after meeting 'we have made it clear that the elec. cannot be linked to demands for the extradition of the leaders of the Republika Srpska'; Deadline passes for registering for elec., OSCE says 45 parties, 16 ind. cands. reg. June 15 Silajdzic attacked while campaigning in nw town of Cazin, members of govt. party SDA blamed; Pero Markovic (from Capljina) named pm of Herceg-Bosna by Bos. Cro. 'pres. coun.', appoints new mins. includ- ing as DM Vladimir Soljic who holds same post in Bos. Fed., but Bos. PM Muratovic condemns this as illegal since Cro. state was a rebel entity; Tudj. in visit to Jasenovac camp site says comms. were responsible for killing thousands there June 16 Kornblum tells Milo. Wash. wants Kara. out of power in next several weeks June 17 WCT drops charges against Serb Goran Lajic due to mistaken identity, but charges remain against another of same name; US Sup. Ct. says victims of war crimes in Yugo. can sue Kara. in US fed. cts.; Crowd of Bos. Serb women hold OSCE reps. in BL captive for 24 hrs. over issue of missing relatives; Cro. Jus. Min. Miroslav Separovic says that those charged w/ armed rebellion between Aug. '90-June '96 except war crims. to be amnestied, those in custody or already tried to be released, 4,700 ct. proceedings dropped; Feral Tribune trial adjourned after 1st day until Sept.; Cro. FM Granic attends opening of Cro. emb. in Mac., meets w/ Mac. leadership June 18 UN ends arms emb. against former Yugo. countries following June 14 intl. conf; Turk. pres. Demirel in Sara. gives Bos. $20 mil. donation instead of loan, meets w/ Izet., Zubak; 1 Serb policeman killed, 2 wounded in 2 separate shootings in Kosovska Mitrovica and Podujevo in Kos., grenade, machine gun attack on police station in Luzane, police respond by harassing, beating Alb.; Yugo. pardons 12,500 who avoided conscription during wars; HDZ says pol. moves in Herzeg- Bosna do not viol. Dayton Accords, but Bos. VP Ganic demands recall of Fed. FM Prlic who is a Croat since his appt. demanded dissolution of HB mini-state; Cro. DM Susak signs mil. coop. agreement w/ Bulgaria, says Cro. wants to buy anti- armor rockets and produce them in Bul. June 19 'Operation Sharp Guard' suspended in Adr. after lifting of UN arms emb.; NATO Sec. Gen. Solana 'not impressed' w/ Tudj. willingness to coop. over Bos., finds that Tudj. thinks Dayton Accords valid only temporarily and BH will not survive; Bri. comm. Gen. Michael Jackson to leave post on June 26; Bos. Serb parl. decides to set up own war crimes ct. since con. does not allow extradition June 20 Kara. nominated by his SDS party in Pale; UN certifies demilitarization of E. Sla., but E. Sla. 'parl' calls for extra year in mandate of UN over area; EU warns Hercez- Bosna entity not to try to preserve itself June 21 UN says 72 Serbs have been intimidated into leaving Sara.; Serbian Dem. Party rep. says his party could support Kara's elec. bid as legitimate June 22 Bos. Croats stone buses of 200 Mus. trying to visit former homes in Pocitelj (s. of Mos.), police fail to react; Serbs hold rally near Pristina, call on Milo. to state what future holds for them in Kos. June 23 Forensic experts uncover bodies of 47 Mus. men in town of Ravne, men were held prisoner in bus in Sokolina (6 miles n. of Sara.) then fired on by Serbs on June 14 '92, but 8 escaped; UNHCR says 30 Mus. evicted from homes in BL over weekend; Bos. Croat officials deny they are trying to preserve Herceg-Bosna mini-state; June 24 Bildt gives Kara. until July 1 to step down or sanctions will be reimposed against Serbia, Bos. Serb lands; also meets w/ Milo.; Smith meets w/ Krajisnik, warns him that he is not satisfied w/ treatment of Bos. Mus. June 25 Krajisnik says Kara. ready to 'sacrifice his power' before July 1 deadline to step down, while Milo., through Yugo. Pres. Lilic calls on Bos. Serbs to 'fully respect the Dayton Agreement' on Kara's resignation; OSCE announces that elec. to be held on last date possible under Dayton Accords, Sept. 14; Boutros-Ghali submits report to Sec. Coun. condemning Cro. for human rts. viols.; re- port also criticizes separatist forces in BH and Bos. Serbs for continued ethnic cleansing in Brcko area; Slo. becomes 10th state to have associate WEU membership June 26 Kara. sends letter w/ conditions for his stepping down to Bildt including RS area having 'minimum status as a state'; CofE cites Slo. for human rts. viols.; US says no 'organized' for. fighters left in BH (cert. nec. to allow US $70 mil. aid program for mil., equip. training to go through June 27 US says it will not accept Kara. conditions for stepping down, and Kornblum also tells BH govt. US will not allow mil. aid until draft bill uniting Mus., Cro. forces becomes law; WCT opens hearings on role of Kara., Mladic in genocide; 17 new indictments handed down including 9 against Bos. Croats and 8 against Bos. Serbs; Cro. Jus. Min. publishes names of over 800 ethnic Serbs accused of war crimes between '91-'95, says list is not exhaustive and these to be excluded from gen. amnesty; Boutros-Ghali recommends ex- tension of Sla. pk mission until Jan. 15 June 28 Mont. pres. Bulatovic calls again for Kara.'s removal June 29 Kara. runs uncontested for party leader- ship, gets 353 of 354 votes, declares goals of secession from Bos., unification w/ 'other Serb lands'; G-7 leaders call on him to 'renounce definitively and im- mediately all public functions', threaten to restore sanctions on Bos. Serbs, Serbia June 30 Kara. relinquishes duties to hardliner Biljana Plavsic but claims it is a tem- porary situation, Bildt says he doesn't care if he calls himself pres. so long as he gives up functions; US Nat. Sec. advisor Lake says this is not enough; Mus. narrowly win elec. in Mos. gaining 21 city coun. seats to Croats' 16, EU says elec. fair, well-organized July 1 Kara's SDS party nominates him for another term as RS pres. July 2 Bildt says he is reserving judgment on whether Kara. has given up power, while Plavsic says he has not and will not be sent to Hague; List for a United Mos. (largely Mus.) wins 48% of vote while Cro. Dem. Community gets 45% in Mos.; Serbs block Fin. forensic team from reaching grave site near Sreb.; CofE invites Cro. for membership but conditioned upon im- provement of human rts. July 4 Head of Dutchbat in Sreb. tells WCT he had no idea a massacre was intended by Serbs, denies he made toast w/ Mladic July 5 Witness at WCT says Mladic watched slaughter of Mus. at Sreb.; CIA dir. John Deutsch makes unreported visit to BH; Serbs remove heavy guns from NATO collection pt. at Han Pijesak July 6 US troops confront Bos. Serb forces who have tanks outside Mladic hq, NATO asks Serbs to remove tanks, standoff continues until late in evening when Serbs remove tanks to storage facilities; Smith again says his men do not have orders to arrest Mladic, Kara.; Fin. forensic experts re- cover 9 bodies near Sreb. despite Serb obstructions July 7 Team of 290 forensic pathologists arrives at mass grave site near Cerska (22 miles w. of Sreb.) July 8 OSCE head in Bos. Robert Frowick says he will remove SDS from elec. lists if Kara. remains at party's head, but Bildt says this would require overturning OSCE 6-28 decision to hold elec.; WCT prosecutor demands intl. arrest warrants for Kara., Mladic; bodies being exhumed from Cerska grave; Yugo. ct. convicts Dusko Vuckovic for war crimes in Bos. committed in '92, gives him 7 yrs. July 10 Serbs in Sreb. celebrate fall of Sreb. w/ folk dancing festival to mark their vic- tory, while up to 40 bodies found so far at Cerska site; Bri., Rus. both putting pressure on OSCE not to ban SDS from elec.; 100 Mus. refs. evicted from housing in n. Serbian town of Crvenka July 11 WCT issues intl. arrest warrants for Kara., calls for 1st time for investigation into Milo's responsibility for Bos. war crimes; Judge Jorda (Fra.) says evidence suggests 'that a plan existed, designed at the highest Serbian pol. and mil. level, to set up a new state through the use of viol.' in Bos.; Contact Group meeting in London can't agree on reimposition of sanctions July 12 Amer. emb. worker shot in back while driv- ing between Kiseljak and Sara. (area under fed. control); explosion under truck in front of office of UN pol. monitors in Vlasenica (6 miles from Mladic hq) wounds 2; US forensics team head William Haglund denies Serb con- tention that Mus. victims were killed in battle, since most have hands tied behind backs; 60 bodies have been found at Cerska; Retired YPL gen. Milan Aksentijevic ar- rested while visiting relatives in Slo. July 13 US to send Hol. to talk w/ Milo. about re- moval of Kara., Mladic July 15 UN reports that Bos. Serb police chief in Pale threatened last week that UN police officers would be 'detained or harmed if there was an operation to try and detain Radovan Kara.'; Frowick repeats warning that SDA will be banned from elec. if Kara. remains its leader; OSCE disquali- fies 7 cands. of ruling SDA in Cazin due to their responsibility in attack on Silajdzic in June; Yugo. For. Min. cri- ticizes Bos. Serb leadership over their hostility to arbitration on Brcko; EU appoints Bri. commander Sir Martin Garrod to replace Ricardo Perez Casado as Mos. administrator, also extends man- date over city for 6 months, while UN extends its mandate over Prevlaka Pen. for 6 months July 16 Hol., in Sara., warns that NATO, UN will take swift action if attacked by Serbs; OSCE gives Serbs until 19th to remove Kara.; UN finds 250 Mus. men fortifying village of Dugi Dio (nw. BH) inside Serb-held terr.; Yugo. parl. passes citizenship law which only allows those registered in country from March '92 to have citizenship including voting; Cro. ct. convicts 2 sold. for crimes against Serb pop. in last year, but acquits 6 others of 18 deaths of Serb civs.; Bos. govt. to receive $400 mil. in US mil. aid; UN says viol. against Serbs in Sara. subs. getting worse, govt. doing nothing July 17 UNHCR report accepts ethnic divisions within BH; Hol. meeting w/ Milo. 'in- conclusive'; Body count near Sreb. now 86, 13 near Sara.; Kucan calls for normalization of rels. w/ Bel.; Tudj. meets w/ Hol., says extension of UN mandate out of question July 18 Dep. justice min. of Republika Srpska visits Cerska grave site, is told how Mus. were massacred but replies that 'there were a lot of massacres in this area'; 134 bodies found so far; 30 more Mus. bodies found in Zerovanj (15 miles n. of Sara.) most w/ hands tied; Serbs in nw village of Kamen (near Glamoc) digging up bodies of their sol., civs.; Aksentijevic appears in Slo. ct. July 19 Hol. finally gets Kara. promise to withdraw from public life, although recognizes that Kara's influence will continue; Slo. ct. decides not to detain Aksentijevic while he awaits trial July 20 Plavsic says on radio 'there will be no es- sential changes because the state and party policies ... are still in place'; US Navy fighter accidently drops bomb near NATO pk base; Sara.-based co. to rebuild Mos. bridge July 21 VP Gore says US force to complete mission by end of year, repeats admin. position that US troops will not be asked to arrest Kara., Mladic July 22 Exhumations begin at largest suspected grave in Nova Kasaba soccer field; UNHCR says Bos. Serb auth. are abusing human. aid by coercing refs. to register to vote from former homes; Bomb explodes outside Intl. Police Task Force office in Doboj; Serbs reported to be using Kara's name in campaign ads targeted at Serbs living abroad July 23 WCT investigators guarded by US armored vehs. excavate Nova Kasaba site; Mladic dep. Gen. Zdravko Tolimir, tells NATO commander Walker that army would not react to arrest of Kara.; HDZ deps. boycott first session of Mos. city coun. after EU de- clares elec. valid; Yugo. sentences Lt. Col. Nedeljko Varicak to 12 yrs. in prison for spying for Bos.; Conf. on re- construction of Bos. opens in Brussels w/ 200 companies, banks represented; Ganic leads 15-member del. to Belgrade for talks on restoring trade, contacts, meets w/ Milo. July 24 Amer. intel. experts tell Senate Select Cmt. on Intel. that a multinational force will have to remain in Bos. to prevent renewed viol.; 3rd mass grave being ex- humed near Sreb.; EU neg. to bring Croats back into Mos. city coun. but threatens to pull out unless Croats cooperate, while Intl. Police Task Force (IPTF) says it will begin patrolling Sara. subs. to protect Serbs; US DIA chief Lt. Gen. Patrick Hughes says warring sides will return to battle unless NATO remains; Ganic, in Bel., reaches agreement to restore tel., rail, bus, and air links w/ Serbia July 25 Intl. ombudsman's office opens first of- fice in BL to investigate human rts. abuses; OSCE announces voter reg. deadline exten- sion from 31 July to 5 Aug.; Iranian VP Hasan Habibi arrives in Sara. for talks w/ Izet.; Mosque set afire in Croat-held Prozor (c. Bos.) July 26 EU warns Cro. it will be responsible for continuing Cro. boycott of Mos. city coun., Tudj. says he will 'seriously consider' the ultimatum, Susak rejects it; Explosions at major Cro. arms factory in Slavonski Brod destroys facility, wounds 18 July 27 Bos., Iran sign memo. on trade and eco. coop., Iran agrzees to release $10 mil. of $50 mil. credit for est. small bus.; Mon. pres. Bulatovic announces parl. elec. for 3 Nov. July 28 Several thousand Serbs hold rally in Vuk. demanding extension of UN mandate as well as protection of civil rts. and eco. auto.; Liliic quoted as saying elec. will 'elimi- nate from power the illegal regimes' whose mandates had run out; EU rep. says intl. comm. won't be blackmailed by 'small group of mafiosi figures' in Mos. July 29 Bos. Croats say they will not give in to 'intl. blackmail' in accepting Mos. voting results; 2 exp. in Cro.-held Livno, bridge damaged in Vel. Kla. (nw Bos.) July 30 Serb mob in BL attacks UN bus carrying passengers from Bos. Fed., UN says it was 'clearly orchestrated' by Serb auth.; Klickovic says Bos. Serbs will make 'no more concessions' to intl. comm.; Cro. govt. sets July 31 as deadline for closing Bos. Mus. ref. camp at Kuplensko and moving refs. else- where; First train since before war leaves Sara. for Mos. and Ploce; Cro. pm Zlatko Matesa calls on UN to hold elec. in E. Sla. in Dec. Aug. 1 Onasa reports beatings, bombings, and ston- ings of Soc. Party Republika Srpska by members of Kara's party in several towns over last several months Aug. 2 Bomb attack on 3 police stations in Kos. towns of Podujevo, Krpimej and Pristina Aug. 3 Cro. Helsinki Comm. accuses Croat govt., including Tudj., of knowing about arbitrary exec. of 115 Serb civs., disappearance of 110 more in previous year's retaking of Knin Aug. 4 Bos. Croats continued refusal to accept local elec. results in Mos. leads EU to consider leaving area; Clinton holds meeting w/ Tudj.; Sunday Times reports US planning covert at- tempt to kidnap Kara., Bri. DM Portillo says 'how many Bri. lives is that worth?'; Mus. crowd in Ilidza blocks UN-protected convoy supposedly carrying Serbs but in fact Mus. Aug. 5 Bos. Mus., Croats in Mos. try to resolve elec. impasse but EU admin. Sir Martin Garrod says Croats have refused proposal to est. city coun.; Ital. pks stumble across Serb arms cache in Markovici (ne of Sara.), mob prevents 30 sols. from confiscating wea.; Tudj. celebrates 1-yr. anniv. of recapture Kraj., Seselj says terr. occupied Serb land Aug. 6 2 sides in Mos. agree to abide by elec. results, form jt. city coun. w/ Croat mayor, Mus. dep. mayor, and hold 1st meeting after which they will wait for appeal of vote count through jud. system Aug. 8 Sec. Coun. approves non-binding res. de- manding all sides assist wct, says Bos. Serbs have not done enough to turn over Kara., Mladic; OSCE says it is concerned over Bos. Serb intentions to assert sov. Aug. 10 IFOR troops hold pre-announced inspection of wea. site at Han Pijesak, denied access to one section; Croats, Mus. fight w/ sticks and stones outside Novi Seher (c. Bos.) af- ter Croats deny Mus. access to rel. festival; US envoy Kornblum meets w/ Tudj. to put pres- sure on him regarding Dayton accords; Liberation Army of Kos. claims responsi- bility for Aug. 2 bomb attacks on police stations; Joint List opposition rally disrupted by SDA supporters in Gradacac Aug. 11 NATO withdraws liaison officers from Pale while opening talks w/ Bos. Serbs about wea. inspection, orders 'Oper. Fear Naught' placing troops on high state of alert, orders civ. workers to leave Serb areas; Mus. reported expelled from Cro. part of Mos.; Bomb blasts at HVO mil. post in Rosulje (sw of Doboj; Exp. in c. Zag., police say it is work of amateurs Aug. 12 Serbs agree to let IFOR troops inside mil. base at Han Pijesak after Solana and Joul- wan meet w/ Plavsic, IFOR announces that it has occupied other arms cache site; Tudj. agrees to 3 month ext. of UN mandate for E. Sla., calls for elec. during ext. based on '91 census, but UN official rejects this until amnesty for rebel Serbs announced; Cro. govt. team begins grave excavation in Plitvice (c. Cro.); OSCE says 220,640 refs. have registered w/ org. to vote in upcoming elec.; 97,636 to vote in Serbia or Mon.; 633,584 refs. in 28 countries now registered to vote Aug. 13 Pks put on high alert in BH after US Def. Dept. says it intercepts threats; NATO in- spectors including Gen. Walker bring Plav- sic to inspect Han Pijesak; Bel. says again it wants to normalize rels. w/ former reps.; OSCE levies $25,000 fine against SDS in Doboj for trying to prevent refs. from voting in their original towns Aug. 14 Izet., Milo., Tudj. meet w/ Chris. in Gen. agree to new guarantees for free elec. in Bos.; all agree to stop interfering w/ refs. return to homes for voting, pledge to end restrictions on press and to allow open radio and tv network; Izet., Tudj. say they will abolish separate mini-states and transfer all auth. to cen. govt., but Plavsic still says Serb terr. to have 80% sovereignty; Croats, Mus. jointly elect Ivica Prskalo (Cro.) as mayor, Safet Orucevic as deputy; IFOR admits that Serbs had not blocked admission to Han Pijesak but instead NATO wanted to avoid meeting w/ Mladic due to arrest warrants; Serbs prevent OSCE from broadcasting elec. program over their transmitter at Lisina; Gligorov nominated for Nobel Peace prize; Retired Serb gen. of Yugo. army, Milorad Miscevic (75 yrs. old) killed by mine left at his door in Vrebac (Cro.) Aug. 15 Sara. airport reopened to civ. air traffic; Chris. attends, meets w/ Siladjic who says his party might boycott elec. due to har- assment, Chris. responds that elec. will be 'dem.', but no longer that it will be 'free and fair'; WCT prosecutors rest case against Dusan Tadic without significant evi.; Hun., Yugo. restore dip. rels. Aug. 16 NATO, intl. monitors say Bos. govt. terror- izing rivals for upcoming elec. in using secret police org. Agency for Investiga- tion and Documentation; Yugo., Cro. for. min. delegations in each others capitals settling details for normalization or rels.; Ibrahim Rugova says ethnic Alb. in Kosovo will boycott Nov. 3 Yugo. elec.; OSCE of- ficial Frowick says Bos. elec. should go ahead but OSCE reserves rt. to invalidate elec. results in areas where Dayton accord not applied Aug. 17 SDS issues apology for using hum. aid to manipulate voters in Doboj, Modrica; Bildt in Sreb. and Zvornik warns SDS officials they may be disqualified from elec. unless they take down Kara. posters; Bos. amb. to Croatia, Kasim Trnka, says Cro. govt. in viol. of its own constitution for allowing Bos. HDZ and Abdic elec. material in Cro.; Cro. police arrest 29-yr. old man named 'Goran V.' near Osijek for suspicion of war crimes in Cro. in '91 and '92; US be- gins dismantling 'Camp Pat' in E. Bos., sending heavy wea. back to Ger. Aug. 19 IFOR begins 'Operation Volcano' destroying cache of Bos. Serb wea. and ammo. found in Margetici, Serbs call it a 'dangerous pro- vocation'; IFOR sets up new checkpts., con- trol over goods and passengers in Brcko; Rus. transport plane carrying mil. supplies crashes, explodes near Bel. airport; Ganic meets w/ Slo. pres. Kucan; 2 Mont. opposi- tion parties boycott meeting in Bel. on elec. Aug. 20 Oper. Volcano continues, Serbs continue to protest policy Aug. 21 OSCE accuses Bos. HDZ of viol. voting pro- cedures by taking ballots from voters, or- ders removal of local elec. comm. pres. Vlado Bevanda from party list, says he cannot run for office; Serbia announces local elec. for Nov. 3; Slo. police arrest Bos. politicians Ivo Komsic (Cro. Peas. Party) and Nijaz Skenderagic (Social Dem. Party) for attempting to address cam- paign meeting without proper announcement Aug. 22 UN says opposition parties increasingly harassed in campaign; 3 exp. reported in Cazin; Bos. Serb police arrest local op- position leader in Teslic; WCT opens of- fice in Sara. Aug. 23 Cro. FM Granic arrives in Bel., signs normalization agreement w/ Yugo. FM Milu- tinovic; Ljubljana district ct. finds Gen. Milan Aksentijevic not guilty of serving an 'enemy army' since Yugo. army had not formally been declared as such Aug. 25 OSCE says status of 8,000 of 28,000 candi- dates for Bos. elec. in doubt since their names are not on elec. rolls (based on '81 census), w/ 2 being indicted war crims.; Zubak tells supporters Croats, Serbs, and Mus. all must be able to live in one state while Plavsic calls for 'a single Serb state', that Serbs want unification with Serbia, and that 'the Serb nation and its state are more sacred than any peace'; Slo. Pres. Kucan, Hun. pres. Goncz meet in Prosenjakovci, Slo., agree to abolish passport requirements in lieu of identity cards Aug. 26 OSCE rules out 1,470 of 5,010 SDA candidates 100 members of opposition's Joint List due to their names not being on '91 elec. roles; Mac. govt. approves draft law redistricting country from 34 admin. units to 120 to better reflect minority populations Aug. 27 OSCE says municipal elec. set for Sept. 14 to be postponed due to Bos. Serb manipula- tions of voter reg., SDA, HDZ both protest decision; voting begins for 220,640 refs. in Serbia-Mont., 136,553 in Croatia, and 132,850 in Ger.; Joint List stages rally in Tuzla w/ 10-20,000; Pentagon officials say that 5,000 man 'covering force' may remain in Bos. into next year Aug. 28 SDS leader Aleksa Buha says his party will most likely accept delay of mun. vote; Mus. parties (SDA and Bos. Patriotic Party) call for suspension of ref. voting due to fraud; 5,000 US troops training in Ger. for with- drawal of IFOR; Slavko Milosavlevski ar- rives in Bel. as first Mac. amb to Yugo. Aug. 29 IFOR detains 65 Bos. Serb policemen who fired on group of Mus. men trying to rebuild homes in Mahala (near Zvornik), mob surrounds UN hq in town and only disperses after Gen. Walker orders Serbs released; Refs. in Serbia staying away from polling stations; Kornblum meets w/ Milo., says it is Bos. Serbs who are manipulating voting; Kos. Alb. leaders hold secret talks w/ Bel. officials on readmission of ethnic Albs. to sec. school; Bos. PM Mura- tovic visits Mac. Aug. 30 Kornblum says Herceg-Bosna to cease to exist as of Aug. 31, w/ Mus.-controlled ministries also being dissolved into fed. structures; Experts arrive at Ovcara (near Vukovar) for excavations of possibly 250 Cro. killed in hospital in '91 Aug. 31 SDA calls of threatened boycott of elec. af- ter OSCE says Serb voting lists not to be used after Sept. 14 elec.; Herceg-Bosna of- ficial says mini-state to dissolve only af- ter guarantees from Mus., new para-state of Cro. Community of Herceg-Bosna proclaimed to guarantee pol. rts. of Bos. Croats; Pks fire on Bos. Serb ambulance carrying unauthorized wea. in Doboj