He added that the most likely outcome is the partition of the country into Muslim, Serbian and Croatian areas.

No opposition press is allowed in Serbian or Croatian areas.

Croatian industrial areas near Karlovac came under heavy bombardment from Dec. 27.

And he is against the push by Zagreb to annex the ethnic Croatian area in Bosnia.

Ustaše militia in Croatian areas also carried out acts of persecution and murder.

All telephone lines in the Croatian areas of Bosnia are linked to Zagreb.

The Croatian area, accounting for the remaining 19 percent of Bosnia, is more than 90 percent Croat.

Croatian ethnic areas were economically neglected.

There are 444 Croatian protected areas, encompassing 8.5% of the country.

But many favored candidates, especially in Serbian and Croatian areas, espouse the same kind of narrow, nationalist politics that led to war.