"Ivan Kovac, a Bosnian-born Croat, lived as an immigrant in Australia until he came to Croatia in 1995. Since 1997, Kovac has run a restaurant in Gracac in a home owned by Danilo Stanic, a Serb. Stanic and his wife returned to Gracac in 1998, but the local housing commission ignored their repeated requests that the commission evict Kovac. In July 2002, pursuant to Stanic’s private lawsuit, Gracac municipal court ordered that Kovac vacate the part of the house used as a restaurant, but the restaurant continued operating as of June 2003, pending a court decision on Kovac’s appeal."
The census is a fact. It shows that in a matter of little over 50 years, Croatia went from 25% Serbs to 4%. The only Balkan country where minorities make up more than a trickle of the population is Serbia -- the only multiethnic state where other nationalities and ethnic groups are welcome.
Given that Kosovo and Croatia have purged themselves of their Serb population by ethnic cleansing methods, the "international community" is looking the other way -- whereas in Republika Srpska there is blatant pressure by the same "international community" to create a multiethnic entity because the Serbs used ethnic cleansing to connect Serb areas of the former state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Go figure!
Hence, we have the usual double standard, which is precsely the reason the social experiment of the "international community" (IC) will eventually fail.
Instead of assuring an even-handed approach, firm but fair, the IC is using a one-sided, yet contradictory approach. I am absolutely convicned, knowing how Serbs think, that a principled carrot-and-stick policy would get a lot more cooperation from the Serbs. If given credit where credit is due and punishment, where justified, across the ethnic lines, the IC could consider its job done. But instead of creating a lose-lose situation that can be turned into a win-win for all, the IC has advanced a win-lose and lose-win sceario, depending on which side is involved and thereby only deepening the rift.