Arkan, the notorious paramilitary leader, was about to start the bloody ethnic cleansing which would sweep through Bosnia."They were innocent civilians. Unarmed," Haviv recalls, referring to the picture, left, of a soldier with sunglasses and cigarette kicking a woman slumped in the road next to other Muslim civilian bodies,"This man, the town butcher, was shot first and then his wife and then they shot the other woman. They were pulled out of the house, they were screaming so much. Here they're in the process of dying."'Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal' opens on Monday for one week at The Freedom Forum, Stanhope House, Stanhope Place, London W2. Ron Haviv will give a talk about the pictures on Thursday at 6.30pm.. A row over wartime collaboration threatened to claim a second political scalp and plunge the Belgian government into crisis yesterday when a cabinet minister admitted past links with a support group for SS veterans.

A row over wartime collaboration threatened to claim a second political scalp and plunge the Belgian government into crisis yesterday when a cabinet minister admitted past links with a support group for SS veterans.

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Jaak Gabri?, Belgium's Minister of Agriculture and member of the Prime Minister's Flemish Liberal Party, faced hostile questions from the media and MPs as he sought to explain away a growing political embarrassment.Just one week ago, a minister in the Flemish regional government was forced to quit after being seen at a meeting of an SS veterans' support group attended by followers of the far right. Now other Flemish politicians with similar political roots are being scrutinised by a media eager for more revelations.For a government trying to rebrand Belgium as a beacon of modern-day ethics, this is acutely embarrassing and could threaten the equilibrium of the ruling six-party coalition.The row centres on the activities of the Sint-Maartensfonds, a group set up in the early 1950s to help returning collaborators and their families. Ten days ago, the Interior Minister of the Flemish regional government, Johan Sauwens, was filmed at a meeting by political rivals from the far-right Vlaams Blok. The footage, shown gleefully to selected journalists, was shot from behind and revealed the Flemish minister seated at the back of a hall with Nazi symbols in silhouette.As a cabinet minister and ally of the premier, Mr Gabri? is a much bigger fish but the evidence against him is far less clear-cut, leaving his political future in the balance.

Having at first denied membership of the Sint-Maartensfonds, the minister qualified his answer, admitting contacts many years ago.Yesterday Le Soir, the Brussels daily, reported that Mr Gabri?'s office had confirmed that the minister was a member of the group 20 years ago but could not remember whether he remains one. That was denied by his spokeswoman, who said that Mr Gabri? had simply bought raffle tickets sold in support of the group.The contortions illustrate how much the legacy of the war remains a part of Belgian life. The Sint-Maartensfonds dates from the early 1950s when it was founded to help around 10,000 Flemish soldiers who volunteered to join Waffen SS units on the Russian front during the Second World War.Unlike some other occupied countries Belgium did not offer a general amnesty and collaborators who returned after the war were jailed, fined or stripped of many civil rights.Mr Sauwens represented the Volksunie party, a nationalist Flemish group which eschews the strident nationalism of the extreme Vlaams Blok but has murky roots. Mr Gabri? was a president of the Volksunie before defecting to the Liberal Party of the Prime Minister, Guy Verhofstadt.When it was founded after the war one of the Volksunie's demands was an amnesty for collaborators. The rationale was that many Flemish people co-operated with the Germans because they saw it as a route to separatism and freedom from oppression by Belgium's French-speaking ?te rather than as an embracing of Nazi ideology. Some dispute that interpretation, and a book published last year highlights how much co-operation the Germans found for their Jewish extermination policy in Antwerp. Today, the port city is a stronghold of the far right.The row has sparked an examination of Belgium's wartime legacy and raised more questions about the strength of the modern far right.