Word: serb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ravaged Bosnia- Herzegovina. As Muslim authorities announced an official death toll of 14,364 for six months of war, even soccer fields, like the one pictured in Sarajevo, were being converted to graveyards. Last week the U.S. State Department revealed evidence of yet another massacre by ethnic Serb forces of some 3,000 Muslims in the city of Brcko last spring. The approaching winter could exact a far worse toll. U.N. relief officials warned that as many as 400,000 people in Bosnia could die of exposure and starvation. Said Cedric Thornberry, civilian commissioner of U.N. forces in former Yugoslavia...
After half an hour, we stopped. It was very quiet. Then a soldier came in and pointed to a man at the front and said, "You." They got out, and we heard a single shot. Then another Serb came in and said to the soldier on board, "Now get two out." More shots. Then we realized it was over, there was no life for us. They started taking people by threes, and we heard machine-gun bursts along with pistol shots...
...have been many tales of atrocity and murder in the chilling course of the war in Bosnia. But few stories match the horror of an alleged incident reported late last month for the first time: the massacre in August of more than 200 Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb militia at the edge of a ravine near Travnik. Like some other Balkan tales, this one is impossible to verify independently. Bosnia's Muslim authorities claim to have details, but Serb leader Radovan Karadzic says he knows nothing of a massacre. In the meantime, one escapee, Semir K., 24, shivered...
When we came to what I later knew to be the Ugar River, they took us all out and said not to worry, we were going to be exchanged for Serb prisoners. They got everyone out of the buses and the trucks, which also had prisoners in them, and lined us all up along the edge of the road, between the buses and the river. They chose about 250 people, all men between about 16 and 50, and put us back on two buses. We still thought we were heading for a prisoner exchange...
With remarkably few exceptions, Kosovars have been willing to follow their leaders' policy of nonviolence and passive resistance. In May they evaded attempts by Serbs to block unauthorized elections, but their new assembly has been barred from meeting. The President of the unrecognized Independent ! Republic of Kosovo, Democratic League leader Ibrahim Rugova, says, "We hold meetings every week with local representatives" despite repeated Serb arrests of Albanian activists...