Word: croatianly
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...addition, advocates of the UN plan are reluctant to accept a plan that does not reward Serbian-Croatian aggression and dominance. The prospect of more killing is a powerful consideration in a country that knows of war and terror. But outsiders, who are doing much less than they can to reverse Serbian and Croatian aggression, are poorly placed to tell the Muslim victims that they should learn to live with their misfortune...
...callers who took responsibility for the bombing, at least one said he spoke for an organization calling itself the Serbian Liberation Front. Another claimed to represent Croatian militants. Still another called in the name of Bosnian Muslims. The possibility of a Balkan connection was made more tantalizing by the fact that a bomb was defused on Friday near the U.S. embassy in the Croatian capital of Zagreb...
Militants seeking independence for Croatia have struck inside the U.S. in the past. In December 1975 Croatian nationalists were suspected of planting a bomb in a luggage locker at La Guardia Airport, killing 11 people and injuring 75. Less than a year later, Croats hijacked a TWA jet traveling from New York City to Chicago and eventually diverted it to Paris. As part of that operation, the group also planted a bomb at Grand Central Terminal, which killed a police officer who tried to defuse it. In June 1980 Croatian "freedom fighters" detonated a bomb inside the museum...
...would be raped by a procession of Serb soldiers, then either released or sent to one of the larger concentration camps in Bosnia. Other women have been repeatedly raped in their own homes by Serbs, and some were reportedly killed afterward. A number of pregnant victims ended up in Croatian hospitals as refugees, awaiting the birth of unwanted children. Some of the victims are said to be held by Serb soldiers until they give birth...
...week-long struggle to regain territories that U.N. troops had failed to clear of Serb forces, the mines had already been detonated. Gushing water threatened to burst the 210-ft.-high (65-m) structure altogether, washing away the homes of 20,000 people downstream. At week's end Croatian officials were working feverishly to shore it up and drain the reservoir behind...