Word: bosnia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...openly supported ethnic cleansing, which eventually resulted in the killing of an estimated 150,000 Muslims; more than half a million others were driven from their homes. "I'd like to see eastern Bosnia completely cleansed of Muslims," she told an interviewer...
...campaign to wrest full control from Karadzic still has a long, dangerous way to go. Plavsic "is doomed to failure," warns Karadzic ally Momcilo Krajisnik, the Serb member of Bosnia's collective presidency. But momentum has begun shifting her way since British commandos killed a suspected war criminal and captured another in a gun battle in July. Last month NATO peacekeepers helped Plavsic evict pro-Karadzic cops from police stations in Banja Luka and nearby towns. And the number of Plavsic supporters grows day by day with senior Serb Democratic Party members, mayors, army officers and police chiefs pledging their...
WILLIAM SHAWCROSS, who wrote this week's cover story, first encountered George Soros in Sarajevo four years ago, as the philanthropic billionaire was being shepherded out of the line of sniper fire. Soros was on a mission to give $50 million to rebuild war-torn Bosnia, and Shawcross was researching U.N. peacekeeping for an upcoming book. Shawcross was immediately intrigued by the international money manager. "A very cool character, but quite passionate about Sarajevo," he recalls. "He called it the world's largest concentration camp...
...BRCKO, Bosnia-Herzegovina: Several American injuries were reported during violent attacks today on NATO peacekeeping forces in this Serb-controlled town. The attacks were fueled in part by the belief that the Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic has "sold her soul to the devil" by co-operating with the men in blue berets. And with the former president and indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic waiting in the wings, this is not the best time for Plavsic to be losing her grip on power...
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia: An unusually aggressive NATO raid here has set the stage for a potentially violent showdown between rival Serb factions. A force of 350 heavily-armed British troops backed by American Apache choppers knocked out the local power base of hardline leader and wanted war criminal Radovan Karadzic ? and met no resistance...