Word: croatians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...odds may still not be even on the battlefield in Bosnia, but they certainly have changed. For the first time in three years, the Bosnian Serb military machine has been forced into reverse, yielding large pieces of territory to a Croatian-Bosnian government offensive in the northwest of the country and easing the siege of Sarajevo under the pressure of a 14-day NATO bombing campaign. Whether the war in the former Yugoslavia is in its endgame or not, the dramatic shifts in the military and territorial balance should have a salutary effect on peace negotiations. The myth of invincibility...
...agreement to withdraw most of their heavy weapons from around Sarajevo. They agreed to open the Bosnian capital's main roads and airport to unrestricted U.N. traffic. Milosevic kept one copy of the document, and Holbrooke took two copies with him to Zagreb to show to U.N. officials and Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and then to Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic...
...Contact Group--the U.S., Britain, France, Germany and Russia--are not predicting that progress will be easy. The agreement on principles two weeks ago presents as many questions as it answers: What kind of constitutional arrangement can create one country that contains both a Serb republic and a Bosnian-Croatian federation...
...Croatian forces are withdrawing from around the Bosnian Serb stronghold of Banja Luka after meeting stiff resistance. Wednesday, Serb President Slobodan Milosevic apparently sent 1,000 paramilitary troops under Zeljko Raznatovic, or "Arkan," to reinforce the city. The United States considers Arkan a possible war criminal, and says he's responsible for some of the worst atrocities in the Balkan war. "Arkan started out as a big-time bank robber in Europe years ago," reports TIME's Edward Barnes. "He would literally just walk in and point a gun at someone. Later he did political killings for the old Yugoslav...
...have spent the happiest years of my life with Cazim," Snezana said, "and I was afraid of losing our love if I left." After the air raids, she actually let herself imagine what could happen when peace comes. "We will go down to the Croatian coast--my husband, my little son and all our friends," she said, remarking that the family had not seen the outside world for four years. "Then we will return and have a normal life...