Word: bosnian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic announced Wednesday that two French pilots shot down over Bosnia on August 30 have been kidnapped from a hospital where Serbs say they had been held. In Paris, TIME's Bruce Crumley reports that exasperated French officials now don't know whom or what to believe: "Foreign Minister Herve de Charette claimed he had no information on the subject at all, and called the entire episode 'grotesque.' Sources at his ministry confirmed that the government had no confirmation on the kidnapping -- nor anything else since the two men were shot down. 'We know nothing, nothing...
...agreement, negotiated by Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, signed by Izetbegovic and Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, and witnessed by Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, calls...
Restoration of gas and electricity to the besieged Bosnian capital, Sarajevo...
Nevertheless, there is cause for optimism. One reason for hope is that a balance of power has been reached. The Bosnian Serbs have lost a great deal of ground since the summer as the Croat-Muslim allies have attacked them; they used to control almost 70% of Bosnia but now hold about 50%. Last week, however, the Bosnian Serbs were suddenly counterattacking with some success. "The Serbian offensive this week was a major factor in making the cease-fire possible," Holbrooke said in an interview with TIME. As he spoke in his hotel room in Rome, he kept...
BOTH SIDES IN THE BOSNIAN CONFLICT are fighting desperately for what they believe to be "their" homeland, and for freedom from perceived domination by the other side. Sadly, clashes of this nature seem to be increasingly common. The Serbs are especially apprehensive because they know the Muslims of the Balkans, along with those of the wider world, possess the most effective weapon of all in such conflicts--the demographic weapon. Look for the name Kosovo in the news in the future. LLOYD JUDD Oxley, Australia...