Word: bosnian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last time Esad tried to visit his old house in the northern Bosnian city of Doboj, the leading Serb candidate for city council there punched out two of his teeth. Esad had crossed the former front line into Serb territory with several hundred other Muslim refugees from Doboj in April hoping he would be allowed to return home. After all, the war had ended four months earlier. Instead, he was met by several thousand angry Serbs wielding pitchforks and throwing rocks. Among them was the prospective Serb city councilman, Predrag Kujundzic, 35, a massive, one-time bouncer responsible...
...then permitted the SS to handle internal security," Kris Janowski, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees told the New York Times. In their areas of dominance, all three sides have bulldozed their own voters to toe the line and other voters to stay away. Kujundzic and other Bosnian Serb leaders remain determined to gain independence for the territory they seized at the beginning of the war. The two most important preconditions for free and fair elections laid out in the peace agreement--freedom of movement and the return of refugees--have not been met. Almost no Muslims...
...well: blocking freedom of association and freedom of expression. Forty miles east of Doboj, in Tuzla, for example, the ruling Muslim Party of Democratic Action (S.D.A.) has disrupted opposition rallies and oppressed non-S.D.A. members with brazen disregard for the Dayton agreement. Until last month, Merdzana Fisca, a Bosnian Muslim belonging to an anti-S.D.A. party, was director of a Tuzla detergent factory that survived the war in mint condition under her leadership. One day she arrived at work to find her office locked with all her personal belongings inside; she had been fired--illegally--by S.D.A.-appointed...
SARAJEVO: Citing widespread abuse of rules and regulations, the international group charged with implementing the Dayton Agreement abruptly cancelled municipal elections across Bosnia Tuesday, a day before they were set to take place. U.S. diplomat Robert Frowick said that attempts by nationalist parties, particularly the Bosnian Serbs, to solidify ethnic divisions by forcing refugees to vote in particular areas, was the deciding factor in calling off the vote. Election laws say that voters can register to vote where they are now, where they lived before the war began in 1991, or where they would like to live. But giving Bosnia...
SARAJEVO: Citing widespread abuse of rules and regulations, the international group charged with implementing the Dayton Agreement abruptly cancelled municipal elections across Bosnia Tuesday, a day before they were set to take place. U.S. diplomat Robert Frowick said that attempts by nationalist parties, particularly the Bosnian Serbs, to solidify ethnic divisions by forcing refugees to vote in particular areas, was the deciding factor in calling off the vote. Election laws say that voters can register to vote where they are now, where they lived before the war began in 1991, or where they would like to live. But giving Bosnia...