Word: militiamen
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...SERB MILITIAMEN FROM BOSNIA lounged on deck chairs and sofas on the unkempt lawn of what was a Muslim home in Kozarac. The former owners had been swept out at the end of May. Now, rifles at their feet, the fighters smoked cigarettes as they leafed through comics and pornographic magazines. Dragan Zamaklaar, 22, in jeans and cowboy boots, dragged heavily on a Marlboro. Then he began...
When darkness falls, the remaining residents, mostly Serbs, retreat into their homes, respecting the 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew. Distant artillery fire rumbles through the night. And the militiamen drink. Humanitarian groups receive frequent reports of inebriated Serbs searching out and murdering any remaining Muslims they can find...
...tractors, cows, cars and furniture. Survivors say more than 5,000 men were beaten to death or shot when they tried to defend their homes. The Serbs dynamited the houses, so no Muslims could ever return. They even ordered the Muslims to fly white flags from their windows, so militiamen would know which houses to destroy...
...harshly nationalist leadership of President Franjo Tudjman have joined in to grab their share of territory, and Bosnian Muslims, fighting at the raw level of their rivals, are likewise guilty of barbarism -- and of inflating horror stories about the Serbs to win sympathy and support. But the Serb militiamen appear to be the worst offenders. "It is in the Serbian interest to terrorize civilians," says Andreas Khol, an Austrian politician ) who frequently visits Yugoslavia. "It is part and parcel of the plan for a Greater Serbia." Detention camps are just a way station before permanent expulsion...
...most refugees, the inducement to flee is fear of imminent death. Topcagic Muharem says he is the only Muslim survivor from the village of Koritnik. On June 20, he claims, Serb militiamen herded 57 Muslim men, women and children into a basement and tossed in hand grenades, then joked that the screams of the dying sounded "just like a mosque." Ferid Omerovic, 37, is one of 9,000 from the Bosnian city of Bosanski Novi who reached a Croatian refugee camp in a U.N. convoy. "Life turned to hell two months ago," he says. "All Muslims were fired from their...