Preventing Minority Return in Bosnia & Herzegovina: The Anatomy of Hate and Fear
10 August 1999
Contents
Executive Summary
Introduction
Bosnian Authorities and why they Obstruct Return
The Hardline Racist
Power for Ever
The Majoritarian
The Venal
The Weak
We Protect Our Own People
You-Go-First (Reciprocity)
Human Rights Hero
Refugees and the Decision whether to Return
The Determined
The Hesitant
The Salvager
The Beneficiary
The Loser
Security in Numbers
The Dual Occupant
Case Studies
Lines of Control, Rule of Law
So what works? - Actual and Possible Policies for the International Community
Negotiated consensual return - the RRTF strategy: third year of failure?
Force - an Armed Guard in Every Home
Reciprocity - Izetbegovic initiative - sabotaged by events or doomed to fail?
Bribes - sorry, Aid Conditionality
Rewards - Retrospective conditionality
Softly softly - but in what number?
Conclusions
Recommendations