Word: doboj
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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Revenge for more recent horrors also inspires them. Many of the Serbs in the First Brigade of the Doboj Regiment defending this ridge were driven from homes in territory now controlled mostly by Muslims. They have come to these trenches as refugees, often after harrowing escapes; they have lost everything and say they will not run any farther. The great majority are peasants who have no skill at politics but a great capacity for hardship when they are certain of their course. They are Serbian true believers. No matter what the politicians order, no matter what the world thinks, they...
...took no clothes, no toys, no mementos, nothing that would make the Muslims suspect they were fleeing. They walked for several days through the woods until they reached a Croat area, where they were given food, water and directions to avoid Muslim soldiers. "It took 21 days to reach Doboj," he says, a distance of just over 50 miles...
...night he often exchanges insults with the enemy, only a few hundred yards away. "They ask what we are going to do when they come to Doboj," Gustimirovic says. "How are you coming to Doboj, I ask them. They shout back that America will act soon." We just laugh, he says...
Colonel Slavko Lisica heads the Doboj Corps. He claims to have 45,000 men -- a gross exaggeration according to intelligence estimates that put the total Serb troops in Bosnia at no more than 90,000 -- under his command, and controls about 400 sq. mi. of territory substantially "cleansed" of Muslims. The situation map behind his desk shows his lines extending like a pointed finger into Muslim territory. All that would be needed to trap the corps would be for the Muslims to cut through the 10-mile-wide base of the finger with an assault on Doboj...
...Serbs of the Doboj bicycle path do not care if the whole world is poised against them. They share the determination of Colonel Lika to grab their destiny or die. "The time of living together is over," he says. "We may be able to live side by side but not together. Never again together...