Word: croatianly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...killed. Some Western officers fear that similar incidents could trigger a kind of unplanned, back-door military intervention. But the Western powers are still determined to avoid deliberate intervention, and soon nothing may be left for intervention to save anyway. Mladen Klemencic, a military analyst in the Croatian capital of Zagreb, speculates that the Serbs agreed to a cease-fire because they "are satisfied with the military results they have achieved. They have their corridor, so their job is finished." (See related story on page...
...does any of this necessarily mean an end to the killing. Ivo Banac, a Croatian-born Yale history professor, fears a repetition of the 16th to early 18th centuries. "Then," he says, "the region was in a state of permanent seasonal war." A modern version might consist of back-and-forth fighting among Serbs, Croats and remnants of an independent Bosnia across ever shifting frontiers. War could resume in Croatia too, despite the presence of 14,000 U.N. peacekeepers. Though a cease-fire has supposedly been in effect since January, Serbs last week resumed shelling the port of Dubrovnik...
...left outside their grasp. A Serb offensive in northern Bosnia last week linked two pieces of territory to form the "Derventa corridor" -- a continuous belt of Serb-held territory running all the way from Serbia proper through the town of Derventa to Serb-populated zones of Croatia. At the Croatian end, the Serbs fired a 155-mm artillery shell that slammed into a soccer stadium crowded with refugees on the Croatian side of the Sava River, killing 13 people and injuring 60. In eastern Bosnia, Gorazde was the only sizable town still in Muslim hands, and it was under Serb...
Marica Josipovic, by contrast, is dry-eyed when she tells her tale. A sturdy, hard-faced Serbian woman of 50 years, she fled to Kosmaj from Prud, a predominantly Croatian town in Bosnia. Her husband remains behind, not by choice but because he was forced by a Serbian militia to fight. Josipovic says neither she nor her husband has any interest in killing neighbors with whom they have lived harmoniously for years. Before Josipovic left, she was on comfortable enough terms with the Croatians next door to ask them to mind her goats. She says conscripts on both sides...
...reality that the current carnage obscures: in many villages, ethnic groups have coexisted peacefully for centuries. Probably they would have continued that way had it not been for the zealous ambitions of their nationalist leaders. Serbia's Milosevic is not the only one to whip up ethnic hostility. Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, no less brutal a dictator or ardent a nationalist, used the fighting in his republic to pummel Serbs and attempt to impose total control over any who stayed in Croatian territory. Now Tudjman is taking advantage of Bosnia's war to occupy areas settled by Croats. His government...