Word: bijeljina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committed in Croatia and Bosnia are chilling. In August 1991 his troops cut their teeth by driving civilian Croats from the city of Vukovar, looting and burning along the way. Arkan and his men stand accused of having tortured, mutilated and killed Muslims in the northeast Bosnian town of Bijeljina in April 1992. And in Zvornik that same month, his troops cleared the town of Muslims, extorting money from civilians for safe passage out of the hell they had created...
...Karadzic radio stations encouraged stone-throwing crowds in Brcko and Bijeljina, by reporting that NATO is acting as an "occupation force" at Plavsic's request. Judging by the results, this propaganda is so powerful that Plavsic's call for Karadzic to stand trial as a war criminal pale into insignificance...
...largest example of "ethnic cleansing" in nearly two years, armed Bosnian Serbs forced more than 3,000 Muslims from their homes, robbed them and herded them over battle lines. The Muslims -- mostly women, children and the elderly -- were expelled from the Bijeljina district in northeastern Bosnia...
...rainy night last week, a line of 21 gasoline tankers waited at the Bulgarian border post of Kalotina to cross into -- and allegedly through -- Serbia. Pero, the burly driver of one of the rigs, had the papers to prove that he was hauling his 32 tons of gasoline to Bijeljina, one of the first ! Bosnian towns overrun by Serbs last spring. But his truck was emblazoned with the name and address of a firm in Sid, 25 miles north of Bijeljina and inside the sanction-bound state of Serbia. Despite their suspicions that Pero and his colleague were bootlegging...
...ETHNIC VENDETTAS IN YUGOSLAVIA'S SPLINTERing republics are sowing more death, this time in newly independent, Muslim-dominated Bosnia-Herzegovina. In | the small town of Bijeljina, where Serbs and Muslims have lived side by side for centuries, independence has bloodied the community, as irregular militias fight to remain linked with neighboring Serbia. After a Muslim grenade exploded in a Serb-owned cafe last week, killing several customers, heavily armed Serbian commandos slaughtered civilian Muslims and took over the town, invading the local mosque and tearing down the Islamic flag. In Bosnia's current state of lawlessness, guerrillas enter at will...