Word: serb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When Serbs fired two anti-tank missiles at a United Nations convoy near the Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa last Monday, Ismail Hassain had just closed the hatch on his armored personnel carrier. The blast inflicted such massive injuries to his head that the Bangladeshi peacekeeper immediately lapsed into a deep coma. Serb forces refused permission for Hassain and four of his wounded U.N. comrades to be evacuated by helicopter, so the soldiers were forced to endure an eight-hour road trip to an American medical hospital in Zagreb. Hassain, who never awoke from his coma, died the next morning...
Carter made his journey contingent on Karadzic's fulfilling six self-imposed "concessions" to peace. In fact they were nothing of the kind. The Bosnian Serb leader promised to honor the Sarajevo cease-fire -- an area where there is not much fighting -- and release Muslim prisoners under the age of 19 -- of whom there are almost none. He also promised to release U.N. hostages, permit free movement of U.N. convoys and reopen Sarajevo airport (two U.N. planes landed on Saturday); in other words, undoing actions already deemed illegal by U.N. resolutions. Finally, he pledged to "guarantee human rights," a declaration...
...Wednesday evening, Karadzic declared that his points would go into effect within 24 hours. By Saturday, four civilians had been killed by Bosnian Serb snipers in Sarajevo, two American aid workers had been taken hostage by Bosnian Serbs outside Sarajevo, and a helicopter flying to pick up U.N. Commander Lieut. General Michael Rose was struck by Serb gunfire. Said U.N. spokesman Risley: "There is absolutely no change...
...discussed it every day," recalls Navarro. "There were real security questions -- not just for the Pope but for the people. But he wanted to go very badly." Less than a week before the trip, the Vatican received a veiled threat from Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader. "His message was full of trickery," says Navarro. "He told us in effect, 'I have no problem with the trip, but what if the Muslims attempted an assassination and blamed us?' " John Paul sent a personal envoy to Karadzic to get him to repeat the same thing to his face. He did. That...
...Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic announced that his side would stop firing on Muslims Friday at noon -- in accord with the ceasefire agreement brokered by former President Jimmy Carter -- but the Serbs seemed to continue unrelenting attacks right up to the deadline. Today, shells slammed into a Sarajevo marketplace, killing two people, and another round killed one more person in the U.N. "safe zone" of Bihac. "It is a bad sign for the cease-fire," Bosnian Vice President Ejup Ganic said of the shelling. "We are very disappointed. Nevertheless, we are pushing for a cease-fire and we hope...