Word: bosnian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...July, the Bosnian Serb Army overran the tiny hamlet of Srebrenica. The city's 3,000 defenders were no match for Serb tanks and artillery, and 300 Dutch peacekeepers were able to do little more than watch as the Serbs systematically rounded up the civilian population. Thousands of women, children and the elderly were bused to the boundary of Serb-controlled territory with only what they could carry in their hands--the latest victims of a war that has left more than a million homeless...
...buses that carried 6,000 to 7,000 Bosnian men, including young boys of 14 and 15 years, had a different destination. They travelled ten or twenty miles to the nearby town of Potocari. There, away from the prying eyes of international aid workers, they were taken out into the fields like herds of cattle, blindfolded, and systematically machine-gunned. Tractors stood by to dig mass graves where the bodies were thrown in, some while they were still alive...
...rape of Srebrenica strained the international community's Bosnian "policy" to the breaking point. The United Nations had designated Srebrenica a "safe area" and told the Bosnian Muslims who flocked to the tiny village that they would be protected there. Yet when the Serbs moved on the town, the U.N. had stood by powerless as its residents were massacred...
Holbrooke's mission almost ended before it really began. In his first trip to the Bosnian capital, an armored personnel carrier carrying members of his delegation slipped off a rain-soaked road and tumbled down the mountain, claiming the lives of three men inside. Among those killed was Robert C. Frasure, who as the President's negotiator in the region had closer ties to the Balkan leaders than any Washington diplomat. The mission returned to the States, its future uncertain...
TIME correspondent Alexandra Niksic reports that there is still no word from Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic about the agreement. "That is somewhat worrisome," says Niksic. "There is an obvious mixed reaction in Pale, the city that has become the de-facto capitol of the Bosnian Serb government lead by Karadzic. Officials are not happy with the agreement, but ordinary people are feeling relieved. One woman, the wife of a local leader, told me that she welcomes the agreement because it is a chance for the Bosnian Serbs to have their own country. 'We can live...