Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, August 1, 1995                   TAG: 9508010098
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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WHO'S WHO

Serbs control a stretch of southern Croatia, land south of the capital, Zagreb, and a piece of eastern Croatia. They rebelled in 1991, afraid that an independent Croatia would repeat the slaughter that took place under a Nazi puppet state in World War II. Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia are cooperating on the battlefield.

CROATIAN GOVERNMENT

Croatia kost a third of its territory to a Serb rebellion in 1991, when the republic declared independence from Yugoslavia. It wants that territory back. May 1, it launched a surprise offensive and retook a piece of Serb-held land.

BOSNIAN GOVERNMENT

The government is led by Muslims but also represents Serbs and Croats loyal to its ideal of a multiethnic society. It is intent on getting as much land back from the Serbs as possible.

YUGOSLAVIA

Two republics, Serbia and Montenegro, remain of six that once made up the Yugoslav federation. Economic sanctions were imposed three years ago for Yugoslavia's support of Serb insurgents in Bosnia and Croatia.

BOSNIAN CROATS

Concentrated in the center and west of Bosnia-Herzegovnia. Croats fought the government for about a year nefore forming a federation in March 1994. Since then, they have an occasion fought alongside the Bosnian army against the serbs.