POPULATION TRANSFER, NO MATTER HOW WELL JUSTIFIED, IMPOSES HUMAN MISERY

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Sunday, February 28, 1993

The Vance-Owen plan, with its patchwork of ethnic enclaves, is to be the basis for peace in Bosnia. Implicit in the plan is the concept of "relocation" of embattled or dispossessed minorities to presumably more secure areas in other part of Bosnia. Mapmakers and relocation experts will endorse the "orderly" transfer of people as superior to the savagery of "ethnic cleansing" and as necessary to prevent the sorts of horrors that have plagued the erstwhile Yugoslavia. Before getting too deep into the relocation business, the peacemakers had better look at how millions of Germans were relocated after World War II.

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