ABSTRACT
A keen observer of the situation in the former Yugoslavia has remarked:
Before May 1991, Croats and Serbs lived together in relative contentment throughout the regions which have now [in the summer of 1992] been so dreadfully ravaged. They were perfectly aware that the rotten ship of the Yugoslav state was entering troubled seas. Yet nobody in their wildest fantasy would have predicted that within a little more than twelve months, the peaceful town of Vukovar would be levelled to the ground in one of the most merciless bombardments of modern history. Nor would they have dreamed that Croat soldiers would massacre innocent Serbs, while Serb fighters would mutilate innocent Croats. 1
