Word: bosnian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure whether it represented only the usual staking out of maximum positions or something more ominous. Izetbegovic, in an interview with the New York Times, said he would sign nothing unless he was assured that Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic would be dismissed as leaders of the Bosnian Serbs--presumably by Milosevic, who is representing both his own country and the Bosnian Serbs at the talks. Karadzic and Mladic cannot attend in person, since they are indicted war criminals wanted for trial in the Hague...
Everyone has agreed on a roughly 49-51 split of Bosnia's land between the Serb entity and the federation. But fierce disputes rage about who gets which specific pieces of territory. The width of a strip of land called the Posavina Corridor, which connects Serbia with the Bosnian Serbs, is the most contentious of these quarrels...
Finally, if nothing else scuttles the talks, there is the status of Sarajevo--considered by Holbrooke to be "the Jerusalem [the most intractable problem] of the Bosnian situation." Muslims want an undivided city to serve as the capital of both Bosnia and the Muslim-Croat federation. Serbs want to divide it into ethnic sections, possibly separated by Berlin-style walls...
...Tudjman said he would take the city of Vukovar, in the disputed area, by force." Despite such progress, however, Secretary of State Warren Christopher has said that "vast differences [remain] to be bridged." Christopher has insisted on dealing with human rights questions, including the massacres of Muslims by Bosnian Serbs. He has also made it clear that no U.S. troops would be sent to the area if Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic -- now under indictment by the international war crimes tribunal -- are still in power...
Special Correspondent Edward Barnes says that to the extent that a newly-released Dutch report about Bosnian Serb massacres directly implicates General Ratko Mladic in the killings, "it definitely complicates the peace process. The New York Times report on Sunday was the first time that we saw solid evidence that Mladic was there, when the killings were taking place. And Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic may have to work something out for him in the peace plan. Will he allow Mladic to be put on trial? That could make things in Dayton more difficult." The other great dilemna, says Barnes...