Word: serb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TIME: But there's still significant contact with General Ratko Mladic, the commander of the Bosnian Serb army [who is under investigation as a potential war criminal...
TIME: The cia, not a particular lover of radical Muslims worldwide, has reported that 90% of the atrocities committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina were perpetrated by the ethnic Serb side...
TIME: How would you describe your relationship with the Bosnian Serb leaders...
...intelligence officials tell TIME that the Bosnian Serbs' air defenses are supported by staff and equipment in Belgrade with Milosevic's approval. The officials also say this network is so sophisticated that the Bosnian Serbs probably knew which American pilots were flying when they shot down O'Grady on June 2. The Bosnian Serb antiaircraft batteries, whose communications U.S. intelligence has been monitoring, may have intentionally targeted O'Grady and his wingman, Captain Bob Wright, because the two had taken part in NATO air attacks on Bosnian Serb military targets. "They knew who Basher 51 and Basher 52 were," says...
TIME's Edward Barnes reports that special Muslim units have infiltrated Serb-held territory surrounding the town of Zepa, the so-called Muslim safe area under attack, and have temporarily hamstrung the massive Serb assault with a series of guerrilla attacks. The Serb campaign against the "safe areas," begun in earnest with the assault on Srebrenica last week, has already driven 30,000 women, children and elderly refugees from that city. But Ministry of Defense sources in Belgrade told TIME that the Bosnian army special units have become the major stumbling block to the Serb capture of Zepa, an isolated...