Word: serb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this time, as in 1914, the conflagration could spread beyond Serbia. A Serb slaughter of Kosovars "is the point where the conflict will automatically trigger a wider Balkan war," says a U.S. official. It would almost certainly involve Albania and perhaps Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria and even Turkey. If two NATO members become embroiled, the alliance could also be dragged in. "It's our nightmare scenario," says a senior British diplomat...
...Kosovars, life is already a nightmare. They vastly outnumber the ethnic Serbs in the impoverished territory, 2 million to 200,000, but Serbs have the guns, control the government and run Kosovo as a brutal police state. The Albanian Human Rights Council reports an average of 190 beatings by police each month for the past year, often followed by jail sentences for "disturbing public order." It has also recorded 106 deaths and about 600 woundings of Kosovars by Serb security forces since Kosovars evicted from the provincial government by Serbs declared an independent republic in July 1990. Unemployment among ethnic...
...first is to send arms to the Bosnian forces. Next, she advocates the bombing of Serb heavy artillery and the supply lines running from Serbia to proxy forces in Bosnia...
...Muslim villagers in Cela tell a different story, not of harmony but of terror. First a lamb was stolen during weapons searches. Then 15 men were taken away for "interrogation"; only 14 returned. Another man was sent to the Serb-run mountain prison camp at Manjaca. Drunken militiamen set fire to the mosque, killed an old Muslim man and dumped his body down a well...
...flags on our houses as a sign of our loyalty. We will not oppose them, and they will not harm us. So far, they have kept their word, but we don't know about the future." Meantime, they try to lead normal lives, harvesting their plums to sell to Serb neighbors for making slivovitz. Though most are afraid to leave the village, a few brave souls carry food each day to the men at the Trnopolje camp...