Word: kladusa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Year's Day cease-fire, negotiated in part by former President Jimmy Carter, looked increasingly fragile. More than 400 explosions were reported near the northwestern Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa, where Croatian Serbs and rebel Muslims battled Bosnian government forces. In Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, Serb troops refused to allow the U.N. to de-ice the airport runway, and in Tuzla, in north-central Bosnia, 1,000 peacekeepers were blockaded without food or heat by the government...
When Serbs fired two anti-tank missiles at a United Nations convoy near the Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa last Monday, Ismail Hassain had just closed the hatch on his armored personnel carrier. The blast inflicted such massive injuries to his head that the Bangladeshi peacekeeper immediately lapsed into a deep coma. Serb forces refused permission for Hassain and four of his wounded U.N. comrades to be evacuated by helicopter, so the soldiers were forced to endure an eight-hour road trip to an American medical hospital in Zagreb. Hassain, who never awoke from his coma, died the next morning...
...feel nothing for the Muslims who lived in the house we have taken," he said, weeping for his own family. "Muslims moved into our old home in Kladusa. They killed my uncle last spring. How would you feel if you saw Muslims slit your uncle's throat, if you saw them throw Serb women and old people out of windows...
...house we built in Kladusa had 10 rooms and a basement," he said. "But now six of us live in a Muslim's house with only four rooms. How would I know what happened to the Muslims who lived in it? Their name was Fazlic. That's all I know. They left some furniture, and we found a few of their family snapshots. I didn't even bother to look at them...