Word: bosnian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conqueror, General Ratko Mladic, swaggered among the defeated, issuing orders with broad gestures to show who was in charge. Beaming, he watched as his Bosnian Serb soldiers offered candy and other treats to the terrified and bedraggled throngs of Muslim refugees in the Srebrenica enclave. He patted a boy on the cheek and assured the crowd, "No one will do you any harm." That much the outside world was allowed to see last week after the Serbs stormed into the eastern Bosnian zone the U.N. had declared a ''safe area" in 1993. Then the cameras were turned...
Summoning a cavalcade of buses and trucks, the Serbs mounted a full-scale "ethnic cleansing" operation. They packed thousands of Muslim women, children and old men into the vehicles and shuttled them west to territory controlled by the Muslim-dominated Bosnian government. Assembling at the base of a Dutch U.N. battalion in Potocari, a town just north of Srebrenica, Muslim families walked to the buses through protective rows of peacekeepers. But behind the 400 Dutch soldiers stood glowering Bosnian Serb troops. "The most incredible thing was the silence," said a Serb witness. "It was the silence of pure terror...
...played. Other thousands camped along the roadsides. Workers for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees put up temporary shelters and passed out food, but they were unable to keep up with the demand as refugees kept streaming in. Perhaps 3,000 younger men from Srebrenica, many of them Bosnian government soldiers, had fled into the woods and dodged the Serb invaders, and some made their way to Tuzla...
...question no one seems ready to answer: Is Mladic, the commander of Bosnian Serb forces, working for his nominal leader Radovan Karadzic, or for the President of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic? The U.S. and other members of the five-nation Contact Group that is trying to negotiate a settlement in Bosnia have been hoping Milosevic, smarting under tough U.N. economic sanctions, was preparing to recognize the Bosnian state and force the rebel Serbs to sit down to work out an agreement. That might still be true, with the taking of the enclaves a last-stage land grab after which the Bosnian...
...congressional staff expert: "Either you believe there's a split between Milosevic and Karadzic and Mladic or you don't. I don't." Some diplomats in Serbia's capital, Belgrade, thought they saw indications Milosevic was backing the offensive. They say the dozens of trucks and buses the Bosnian Serbs used to transport the Muslims out of Srebrenica were observed crossing the border from Serbia into Bosnia last Monday night. They also say the Drina Corps, the Serb unit that launched the attack, was newly resupplied with fuel and munitions that must have come from Serbia. At least two Western...