Word: derventa
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...even the slivers are vanishing. "While ((French President Francois)) Mitterrand's visit diverted the world's attention to Sarajevo, the Serbs got all they wanted in northern Bosnia," says Vinko Begic, mayor of Derventa, one of the last towns to fall to the Serb offensive. In eastern Bosnia, only Gorazde, a town whose normal population of 20,000 has been swollen to 70,000 by a tide of refugees, remains a haven for the Muslims, and it is under heavy siege...
While world attention has centered on Sarajevo, the Serbs and Croats who already control most of Bosnia have been taking over more of what had been - 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...
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