Word: serb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been a rout: with money from Serbia and active support from parts of the Serb-dominated federal Yugoslav People's Army, the rebels have steadily gained control of the roughly one-quarter of Croatian territory where they have a strong ethnic presence. Under those conditions, why should Milosevic, whose power at home is girded by what most Serbs see as a righteous war for Serbian self-determination next door, accept a peace forged by foreigners...
Within hours, the clinking glasses had made way for thudding mortars and stuttering machine guns. Every promised cease-fire in Yugoslavia unleashes new fury on the battlefields, and last week's was no exception. Serb rebels managed to block the main road connecting the Croatian capital of Zagreb to the besieged region of Slavonia along the Danube River to the east, virtually cutting the republic in two. The Yugoslav federal air force subjected Osijek, Slavonia's major city, to indiscriminate bombing of civilian targets. Said a senior British diplomat in London: "This is naked grabbing of all the ground Milosevic...
...rare talks to the press, Milosevic recalls how the Nazi vassal Independent State of Croatia slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Serbs during World War II, and insists that Serbs are facing a similar threat today. Those memories are particularly painful in the Serb-dominated regions of Croatia where today's fighting goes on. But sometimes they are harnessed to chimeras. Says Serbian Vice President Budimir Kosutic, appointed by Milosevic just last month: "The Croatians and the Germans behind them want to make a new state in the old borders of Austria-Hungary...
...series of unconvincing proposals. To buttress the republic's 70,000 security forces, President Franjo Tudjman called up 30,000 reserves, then admitted that he lacked the weapons to arm them. He also revamped his Cabinet, firing his hard-line Defense and Interior ministers and seating an ethnic Serb. In a move that might have meant something a month ago but last week looked like what it was -- sheer panic -- government officials even floated the idea of offering cultural autonomy to Croatia's Serb-dominated regions...
...firefights between Croatian security forces and Serbian paramilitary units escalate, the incidents are getting increasingly ugly. Last week a policeman was killed in a shoot-out with a Serb barricaded in a house with his wife in the city of Osijek. The Serb was also killed, and his wife lost an arm while trying to pick up a police grenade and toss it back...