Word: esad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make people suffer." Instead, Tapuskovic maintains, guilt for the Celebici atrocities lies squarely on the heads of the three Muslim d efendants: Zejnil Delalic, a Muslim military commander thought to have established the camp, Hazim Delic, the camp's deputy commander charged with four murders, and camp guard Esad Landzo, who is accused of five slayings and multiple torture sessions. If found guilty, the four men face life in prison. For Serbs outraged that Bosnian Serbs so far have received the bulk of the tribunal's 74 indictments, the comeuppance would arrive none too soon...
This Saturday, as prescribed nine months ago by the Dayton peace accords, Bosnians are to go to the polls in national elections. But many cannot even vote in their hometowns, including Esad, who asked that his real name not be used. "There's no way I'll go to vote in Doboj," says the gaunt, soft-spoken former factory worker, sitting in the tiny room he shares with his wife and two daughters in Muslim-held territory south of the city, "I'm still too shocked from the beating I got the last time I tried to cross." Wherever they...
...last time Esad tried to visit his old house in the northern Bosnian city of Doboj, the leading Serb candidate for city council there punched out two of his teeth. Esad had crossed the former front line into Serb territory with several hundred other Muslim refugees from Doboj in April hoping he would be allowed to return home. After all, the war had ended four months earlier. Instead, he was met by several thousand angry Serbs wielding pitchforks and throwing rocks. Among them was the prospective Serb city councilman, Predrag Kujundzic, 35, a massive, one-time bouncer responsible...
...inhabitants of Bosnia, the Dayton process is fundamentally flawed and a cause for dejection. "The elections won't change anything. The parties in power will win again," says Biljana, a Serb living in Doboj. The Muslim wife of Esad, Kujundzic's victim, also sees little gain from this Saturday's exercise. "For four years we have begged for shelter and dug up other people's potatoes. We want to go home," says Asmira, 36. "If we can't, we might as well go back...
...under his authority to murder, rape and torture prisoners at Celebeci camp in central Bosnia in 1992. Zdravko Mucic, a Croat and the commander of the Celebici camp, was indicted along with Hazim Delic, deputy commander at the camp, for murders allegedly committed by their subordinates. Also charged was Esad Landzo, a guard at Celebici camp, for murder. Michaels reports that the work of the tribunal is exceedingly difficult. "We are waging peace with those who have been waging war," she says. "We can't rock the boat too much. But the pressure is on to hand over war criminals...
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