Word: serb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into service. Their daily lives had long been framed by falling shells, and the friendly clanging of the trams sounded like a hint of peace, a bit of normality now that a NATO ultimatum had silenced the Serbian siege guns. The streetcars must have carried the same symbolism to Serb soldiers staring down from the hills around the city: last week a sniper fired into one of the jammed cars and wounded a passenger, and 12 people were killed elsewhere in the city...
Last week every faction was talking to someone. In Sarajevo the Bosnian government and Serb rebels agreed to open some roads to civilian traffic in and out of the city. In Belgrade Serbs and Croats announced that they would begin negotiating a formal settlement of the war they fought in Croatia in 1991, which left almost a quarter of Croatia in Serbian hands...
...found it "a moment of hope." His flowing phrases and lavish praise for a host of negotiators ended with a quote from a 19th century Balkan poet, Ivan Jukic, who wrote, "Only those are heroes who know how to live with their brothers." Like Christopher, Clinton hoped "the Serbs will join in this effort for a wider peace. We invite them and urge them to do so." Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic shrugged, saying Croats and Muslims can "decide the way they want to live" as long as it is not a threat to the Serbs. Momcilo Krajisnik, head...
While the U.S. has been prodding the Bosnian Croats and Muslims toward agreement, Moscow has been working on the Serbs. Russia's special envoy Vitali Churkin went to Belgrade to urge Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to look carefully at the Muslim-Croat federation. Churkin said he found Milosevic "flexible and constructive." That may be because the Serb leader is feeling the pinch of U.N.-enforced economic sanctions -- more than half the work force is effectively unemployed -- and fearful that Croatia, no longer preoccupied with Bosnia, might divert its armed forces to the Krajina front...
Some Bosnians fear that the opening of a few exit doors will advance Serb plans to partition the capital rather than reunite it. They believe the Serbs may "cleanse" their areas by allowing only Muslims to leave, and vice versa. The result could be a factional rearrangement of the multiethnic city. U.N. officials admit that this kind of hardening of the Muslim-Serb lines is a possibility. Says one: "There is nothing in the agreement about reunifying the city...