Word: branislav
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...steel cables, wrapped them in lighted fuses and then left them to soak in vats of water. While the gruesome accounts did not appear to faze the four defendants, who spent their time doodling with pencils or rolling their eyes in disdain, the trial was not without its surprises. Branislav Tapuskovic, the ethnic Serb lawyer for Croatian defendant Zdravko Mucic, claimed that his client had taken the job as camp commander solely out of a humanitarian desire to increase food supplies and release Serb prisoners. "Mucic was trying to help the people . . . he was not really in charge," argued Tapuskovic...
...downtown Belgrade, far from the western battles between Serbs and Croatians, two masked assassins leaned out of a car and fired more than 40 bullets. Branislav Matic, second-in-command of the Serbian Guard, a newly formed anticommunist militia, fell dead...