Word: fled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supposed to have a day of reconciliation with Serbs on Friday as it took over the administration of the Serb-held Vogosca suburb of Sarajevo. Instead, officials took over the administration of a nearly empty town. Most of the 24,000 Bosnian Serbs who inhabited Vogosca had already fled for Serb territory, and the Muslim-Croat police made their way to the city hall down quiet, deserted streets. When they got there, they may have confirmed fears the few remaining Serbs had about the transfer of power. The new bosses raised a Bosnian government flag over an administrative building...
...photographs of her topless with her boyfriend so distressed her that she was unable to fulfill her Random House contract? "Don't you have any shame?" he bellowed. Showing little of the steely resolve of Alexis Carrington, the character she portrayed in TV's Dynasty in the 1980s, Collins fled the witness stand in tears...
...pounding into the dirt, ricocheting off roofs and sending hundreds of Hutu men, women and children scattering for cover under rickety stalls. Suzanne Nyahimana, 45, was hit almost immediately, her forearm shattered. Frantically rounding up her five children--her husband had been killed in fighting several months earlier--she fled with them from the northwestern Burundian village of Nyabitaka into the hills, eventually crossing the Rusizi River to a refugee camp in neighboring Zaire. "I will never go back," Nyahimana said last week of her homeland, waving the stump that is all that remains of her right arm. "There...
...have escaped into Zaire and Tanzania, adding to nearly 2 million Rwandan refugees camped in those countries and refusing to go home. Earlier this month those numbers increased sharply when Rwandan Hutu from the Mugano and Ntamba camps, who had sought refuge in Burundi from their own civil war, fled fighting in the area and made for the Tanzanian border. Some 20,000 managed to get across. With an additional 130,000 increasingly anxious Rwandan Hutu still in Burundi, another refugee crisis seems imminent...
...Crimes tribunal still plans to begin the real investigations of mass grave sites, like those around Serb-held Brcko and Srebenica, in the spring. Since the town fell relatively late in the Serb's offensive, everyone knew that they were ethnically cleansing. Most of the Croats and Muslims fled before the Serbs arrived. It was a pretty organized retreat. So it could be that the bodies they are finding are either soldiers or old people who couldn't flee or people who lived in the mountains and didn't know that the town was falling...