Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...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...
...Serbs around Kozarac express little remorse for the countless Muslim homes they have destroyed and tens of thousands of lives they have shattered in "cleansing" northwestern Bosnia. Their main interest now is in improving their own living conditions in the territory they have taken. Serbian officials told a visiting Western delegation last week that if the Muslim government in Sarajevo wanted peace, it would first have to reopen the roads, railroads and air space and restore the telephone and electricity lines it has cut off. "If we don't have electricity, if we don't have fuel," said Milan Covacevic...
...three highly unequal parts. Bosnia's Serbs might not hold on to quite all of the territory they have conquered; their leader, Radovan Karadzic, asserts that they would settle for 64% of Bosnia rather than the 70% they now occupy. Croats would get most of the rest. Bosnia's Muslims would be left with little more than the few towns and slivers of countryside they now hold. The Serb, Croat and Muslim cantons might even theoretically join in a confederation that would be called Bosnia. But that would be a pious fiction; in reality Serbian, and to a lesser extent...
...Serbs have won on the ground; reversing that victory would require military intervention far beyond anything any Western power will even consider. For all the relief efforts, Hogg warned Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic two weeks ago that he could not hope for military help to save the remaining Muslim areas from Serbian conquest. In the British view, the formation of cantons would avoid a total Serbian victory and avert another looming nightmare: mass deaths -- perhaps 200,000 to 300,000 -- among refugees inside the former Yugoslavia who might not survive the rough Balkan winter. An end to the fighting would...