YUGOSLAVIA IN CRISIS: prepare for more clashes and Sel^ia flexes its military muscle as peace moves run into new difficulties In the time for killing begins 'l Ufc- ' I COUNCIL workmen were busy polish- Chetniks, and the Croatian police. the house, flie:s buzzed around a thick / ~ do," Igor said. "So many Chetniks and thousands of Serbs have been sacked. towns, is frontier territory. Crops go ing the anti-aircraft guns and armoured In Tenja, a predominantly Serbian pool of half-dried blood. The dead body From Marc is Tanner army troops are against us. The army Zarko Cubrilo, aged 41, joined the untended and villages become de- cars of the Croatian National Guard enclave four miles from , four of one of the Croatian policemen was in Osijek, Croatia gives them the weapons and helps them paramilitaries in the fight against the serted. Croats have fled to the Red outside Osijek town hall yesterday. "In Croatian policemen and a Yugoslav left in the house until yesterday morn- to kill Croats." Croatian police, after he was sacked in Cross centres in cities such as Osijek. Brioni they think and talk. Here in Sla- army officer died on Sunday in a battle ing. He was shot holding a grenade, backbone of a futule . On the other side of the barricades in February. "Twenty years I worked in The Serbs have fled over the border to vonia, people are dying," Igor between Croats and local Serbs. which locals feared would explode. At the National C uard headquarters Tenja, Milan Trbojevic, a local Serbian Osijek as a supervisor on a building site. Serbia proper. Brandevic, 25, a Croatian member of Upturned trucks, destroyed cars and Two Yugoslav army tanks were in Osijek, hundred; of burly young leader, blames the fighting which has Then one day, they sacked all the Serbs In Tenja barricades were going up the National Guard, said. "Now is the houses peppered with bullet holes were parked in the road, their guns trained Croats, dressed in irmy fatigues and raged for months in on the and left the Croats in their jobs. once more. Serbian snipers trained time for shooting. We've had enough." a reminder of the previous day's battles. on a Croatian police unit holding the kitted out with Calashnikov sub- nationalist aspirations of the Croatian "All our evils began when the HDZ guns on the towers of nearby Osijek. The peace deal struck on Sunday be- In Davska Street, a burnt-out shell of other end of the village. "The army machine-guns, pore 1 over maps and leaders for an independent state. [the ruling party in Croatia] came to "The Croats want to drive us out," one tween Yugoslavia's warring leaders on a house was smouldering. Nine Cro- opened fire on us," one Croatian planned their next o >eration. "Serbs will never accept to live in an in- power. The most they will ever allow us local said. At National Guard head- the Adriatic island of Brioni seems far atian police were trapped in the house policeman said. "They always do, if they The National Giard members say dependent Croatian state," he said. is permission to clean the streets," he quarters in Osijek, Croat youths pre- away from Slavonia, a region in eastern behind Serbian lines, when Yugoslav think the Chetniks are in trouble." their enemies are tie Yugoslav army The Serbian paramilitaries around added bitterly. pared for another night of action. Croatia with a big Serbian minority. army tanks arrived and cut them off Igor Brandevic once worked in a res- and the Chetniks. T ley claim that the Osijek draw most support from the Few expect the peace agreement "Of course I don't like doing this," The fertile wedge of flat farmland has from their colleagues. The four taurant. Now he commands a local unit Chetniks do the kill ng, and the army swelling ranks of the unemployed. The from Brioni to have any effect on the said Igor. "I have a wife and a two-year- been wrenched in a violent struggle policemen perished, picked off one by of the Croatian National Guard, a para- then moves in to shi ;ld them from the Croatian economy is in recession, and level of fighting in Slavonia. The flat old daughter. But as I said, we've had between Serbian paramilitaries called one by Serbian snipers. On the porch of military formation intended to form the Croatian police. "We have much to in a climate of mounting ethnic tension, plain, dotted with prosperous market enough. It's the time for shooting."