Word: serb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...middle of the conversation, the L.D.P. leader suddenly had a brainstorm. On a recent trip to Yugoslavia, he said, he made valuable contacts with Serb businessmen who could be of use to his district. His Serb friends could be persuaded to put up a mini-bakery or mini-dry-cleaning service in Shchelkovo. "What you need are little things which are of immediate use to the people," he explained. "A mini-bakery would bake excellent bread." He turned to his chief of staff, Gennadi Kazantsev, and said, "Put it all down...
...anyone deserved the win, it was the team's coach, Bora Milutinovic, who in previous Cups had spurred weak Mexican and Costa Rican squads into the quarterfinals. The quasi-mystical Serb disdains star quality for teamwork and emphasizes the Latin strategy of zigzagging moves over the British long-ball style. Above all, he makes his players believe in themselves against the world. "He's a mix of Richard Simmons and Yoda," says Lalas. "It requires a great leap of faith to follow him. Sometimes you have no idea what he is saying." Typical Yoda quote: "We don't know what...
There is little doubt that such brutality is organized and authorized at a high level, even if the available evidence does not satisfy the exacting standards of a courtroom. U.N. officials cite the example of the predominantly Serb Banja Luka region, which was home to 356,000 Muslims and 180,000 Croats before 1991. Today only 50,000 Muslims and 27,000 Croats remain. Their homes and neighborhoods have been taken over by an estimated 250,000 Serbs brought in from Muslim-controlled areas...
...newcomers are instructed by local Serb officials to "integrate" into the villages. "That means they can look for a nice Muslim house and then go get it," says Joran Bjallerstedt, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' chief protection officer for the former Yugoslavia. "They back up a truck to the house, load up anything that's salable, beat up the men, rape the women. The authorities say they can't control it. The truth is, they...
Ljubomir S., 21, is a Serb from the village of Brdjani. He was one of several hundred men imprisoned by Muslim militiamen in a military barracks at Celebici in June 1992. "We were beaten regularly," he told interviewers from Human Rights Watch/Helsinki. "A young soldier nicknamed Zenga beat us. They killed a man named Corba. They brought in a chair, on which he had to sit. They then shot him in front of his brother and me. This guy Zenga pulled the trigger...