Word: prijedor
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...flags visible, even on official government buildings, are Serbia's red, blue and white rather than Bosnia's official blue and yellow. "We've got everything here," said Predrag Andelic, 50, over a cigarette and a bottle of beer. He's a war veteran from near the city of Prijedor, site of internment camps that saw the deaths of thousands of Muslims, Roma and Croats. He and his neighbors don't trust Muslim leaders in Sarajevo. "We would like to share with the Muslims but they do not want to share with us," says one friend. "They want to take...
...their case against three Bosnian Serb camp commanders by saying they played a role in a larger "genocidal" plan to destroy Muslims and Croats. It's alleged that hundreds of non-Serbs were killed, tortured and raped and thousands were held prisoner in three camps in northwest Bosnia's Prijedor region...
Ismeta Ogresevic, 47, was one of the few Muslims remaining in Prijedor, a town the Serbs overran in 1992. Her fate last week was like that of thousands of others. At 3 Monday morning, her door was kicked down: Arkan's men had arrived. "I thought they had come to beat us again," she recalled. "But this time they said we had to leave immediately. Instead we ran out the back to the cornfield behind the house and hid. We thought they were going to kill...
...cease-fire now appears to be in effect everywhere except in the Sanski Most area of northwestern Bosnia. "U.N. officials say the town itself was quiet but fierce fighting could be heard to the east and north, indicating that the Muslim and Croat allies may be trying to capture Prijedor, about 20 miles to the north," reports Alexandra Stiglmayer from Sarajevo. "Prijedor is of major symbolic value to the Muslims because in 1992, Serbs brutally expelled the Muslim population from there, committing some of the worst massacres of the Bosnian war." The area is also of strategic value as well...
...encounter brought back terrifying memories of the ethnic cleansing of Kozarac, where Muslims and Croats were rounded up and sent to a soccer stadium in Prijedor. "The next morning we were marched to a highway intersection for selection," recalls Elezovic. "The men, women and children, and old people were separated. A man pushing a stroller with his one-year-old son in it was pulled to the side. They put a vicious dog up to his throat. We could see his insides spilling out. Then he was taken to a garage and shot...