Word: brdjanin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like the fighters in the field, the self-styled parliamentarians saw acceptance of the U.N.-mediated accord as an act of capitulation to a worldwide coalition set on annihilating the Serbian nation. "If we accept," said Radoslav Brdjanin, an ultra-nationalist leader of Banja Luka, "it means ) we fought for nothing and sacrificed the lives of our young needlessly. It is better to have an occupation by the Americans than be forced to live in a Muslim state...
...Serbs, particularly their militia leaders, were adamant, arguing that the Vance-Owen plan meant giving up land they had bled for -- something they would never do. "Let them bomb us," smirked Radoslav Brdjanin, a faction leader from Banja Luka. "We will win the war." Serbian commanders had already begun moving their headquarters and supply centers out of towns and into caves and wooded areas. After 17 hours of debate at Pale, the assembly voted to submit the peace proposal to a referendum among Bosnian Serbs on May 15. The move was a ploy that allowed Karadzic to claim Vance-Owen...
Most of the non-Serbs who have remained in Banja Luka will go if the Vance- Owen plan is implemented. Radoslav Brdjanin, a government "minister" in the self-proclaimed Serbian Republic relishes the prospect and laughs at the demand that Serbs return to the Muslims any land taken. "Wherever there stands a Serbian army boot, that is our territory," he says. "Bosnia does not exist anymore. Our task is simply to clarify the divisions...
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