15 December 1997 At its simplest, the Bosnian question boils down to two existential issues. How do 2 million Muslims sandwiched between 10 million Serbs and 5 million Croats survive? And how do Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Serbs and Croats survive as minorities in an independent state with a Muslim majority?In essence, there are three options: partition; a permanent international presence to cajole […]

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