Word: bosnian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more than 100,000 Croatian troops attacked, the Serb army of some 50,000 men seemed simply to melt away. Croatians shelled cities and towns, harassed civilians and engaged in an orgy of looting and burning of Serb homes. "You're not going to see anything like what the Bosnian Serbs are doing, massacres of 3,000 people and such," said one U.N. official. "But it is still bad." Many Serbs still carry memories of the massacres their parents and relatives suffered at the hands of the Croats' pro-Nazi Ustashe government during World War II, and fearful of another...
...were fighting previous wars as they sent their boys leaping out of the trenches to almost certain death. Their inability to let the past go cost thousands of young men their lives. In the same way, President Clinton's inability to let go of Vietnam is costing thousands of Bosnian Muslims their lives...
...could simply have scattered in the face of the Croats' furious advance, the mystery of the Krajina army's disappearance immediately provoked suspicions that the Croatian Serbs may have been headed en masse for Bosnia with the intention of linking up with Radovan Karadzic, self-styled leader of the Bosnian Serbs. Barely 24 hours earlier, Karadzic had added to his portfolio by unexpectedly demoting his military commander, General Ratko Mladic, and appointing himself supreme head of the Bosnian Serb armed forces. If Krajina's 50,000 armed Serbs were to place themselves, even temporarily, under Karadzic's control, it could...
...Croatian onslaught created a rift among NATO allies, who had only recently come together with a new, tougher policy toward the war in Bosnia. Earlier in the week the alliance had announced it would apply to all Bosnian "safe havens" the same rules it had already laid down for Gorazde--calling for pre-emptive air strikes if the areas are seriously threatened. By Thursday, the Serbs had apparently heeded the warning and pulled back...
...Bosnian Muslims, they have been expressing quiet glee at the unusual spectacle of Serbs suffering bombardment. But the Bosnians' cooperation with the Croatians may be short-lived. Catholic Croatia and Orthodox Serbia have long harbored the desire to divide Bosnia between themselves, and Bosnia's recent partnership with the Croats does not change its vulnerability. Indeed, some fear that a successful Tudjman might begin divvying up Bosnia with Milosevic. "Every government acts only in its own interest," said one Bosnian government official, who predicts that once Croatia has what it wants, it will eagerly turn to the task of carving...