BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4707 HINA Zagreb, August 11

HR-BULLETIN-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4707 HINA Zagreb, August 11 U.S. DAILY ON VUKOVAR AND INT. COMMUNITY'S FAILURE TO STOP TRAGEDYWASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Hina) - Sunday's issue of The Washington Times published an article entitled "U.N. Intervention Too Late" on the 1991 fall of the Croatian town of Vukovar as a turning point, which was missed and which could have been used for the prevention of all later cases of massacres in the former Yugoslavia. The leading idea of the article, written by Georgie Anne Geyer, is that today the 1991 tragedy of that eastern Croatian town can be sees "as the last moment at which NATO forces might have intervened to stop the fighting and to halt Yugoslavia's fall into the abyss." There was no political will for such a difficult decision, and the international community resorted to diplomatic and humanitarian measures, Geyer writes. She critically analyses the moves of the international community at the time as well as its subsequent cond