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Word: lika (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Colonel Lika -- a nom de guerre -- who commands one end of the Serb salient, is absolutely convinced that the Germans are really behind the war. "We are completing a war against German expansion and the creation of a new world order," he says. "The Croats and the Muslims are the tools of a new German expansion and they can be sacrificed." He is not alone in this conviction. "This is a war against Germany and the Pope," insists another fighter. "Germany wants a warmwater Adriatic port." Never mind that this makes no logical sense. Though many who express this view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Serbian Lines | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Serbian Lines | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

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