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WINTER 93/94
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BOSNIA
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The mere name is almost enough to make people turn off with feelings of horror
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and impotence. Yes we know that Serbia and Croatia are trying to carve the place
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up with armed terror,mass rape ,ethnic cleansing, with 200000 Bosnians dead
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andhalf a million refugees. The UN sit there enforcing an armsembargo on Bosnia
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(Serbia having nearly all of the arms of the former Yugoslav army), stopping
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Bosnian use of the airport at Tuzla and hoping to force some kind of agreed
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carve-up against the wishes of the vast majority of Bosnians including ethnic
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Croats Serbs as well as Muslims.
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But what do we do about it? International Workers' Aid forBosnia is at least
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doing something getting in convoys of aid to the people of Tuzla an ethnicly
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mixed mainly mining townholding out against agression. This isn't just aid its
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solidarity its letting people in struggle know that other stake some interest.
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In the 1984/5 miners strike here the Tuzla miners gave up a day's pay a month to
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send to the strike fund.Solidarity is meant to be mutual. UN and other aid goes
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mainly to the refugee camps to normalise their disposession not to those still
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in their homes and fighting.
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IWAB also have a political programe against the arms embargo UN intervention and
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control of Tuzla airport for asylum rights for refugees here and of course
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against the invasion and carve-up of Bosnia. But whatever you think of the
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politics (and we have some doubts especially about the positive effects of
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ending the arms embargo - you can guarantee it won't be the miners of Tuzla
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who'll get the guns !) or the possibility of some kind of 'victory' they're
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getting aid and solidarity through. Organisation is international with stuff
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going from across Europe and it is supported by trade unions and radicals in
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other parts of ex-Yugoslavia.
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So send money, offers of help (collecting on a stall or maybe driving a truck
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from Split to Tuzla), queries to IWAB c/o 12-14 Thornton Street London SW9 0BL
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(not to be confused with the split-off IWAB controlled by the WRP).
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aaargh! including ethnic Croat, Serbs solidarity is meant to be mutual.
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We have problems with their politics which there ain't room to go into but
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they're getting aid and solidarity through from all over Europe.
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