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...first indications began to emerge last summer, when Muslim and Croat victims described mass rapes by Serbs to the International Red Cross and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. The women -- some escaped to Croatia, some still living in Bosnia, some in concentration camps -- all told of being forcibly taken by Serb troops, often to temporary "camps" in inns, hotels, schools, town halls and even restaurants. There they 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...
They weren't kidding. When Croat forces took the dam on Thursday, after a 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...
...reach the town had been turned back by Serbian militiamen and mines on the snowy mountain roads. Officials said they were negotiating with the Serbs for permission to enter the area. Meanwhile, in a warm and comfortable hotel in Geneva, Bosnia's government tentatively agreed with Serb and Croat forces last Tuesday to establish a decentralized federation of 10 provinces. The complex plan would allow the Serbs to retain most of the Bosnian territory they have seized. (See related story on page...
Adem Delic, Muslim commander of a Croat-run camp where at least 15 Serbs were reportedly beaten to death in August...
...Adil" and "Arif," members of a Croat paramilitary unit that killed more than 50 Serb women and children in August...