Word: serb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last time Esad tried to visit his old house in the northern Bosnian city of Doboj, the leading Serb candidate for city council there punched out two of his teeth. Esad had crossed the former front line into Serb territory with several hundred other Muslim refugees from Doboj in April hoping he would be allowed to return home. After all, the war had ended four months earlier. Instead, he was met by several thousand angry Serbs wielding pitchforks and throwing rocks. Among them was the prospective Serb city councilman, Predrag Kujundzic, 35, a massive, one-time bouncer responsible...
...permitted the SS to handle internal security," Kris Janowski, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees told the New York Times. In their areas of dominance, all three sides have bulldozed their own voters to toe the line and other voters to stay away. Kujundzic and other Bosnian Serb leaders remain determined to gain independence for the territory they seized at the beginning of the war. The two most important preconditions for free and fair elections laid out in the peace agreement--freedom of movement and the return of refugees--have not been met. Almost no Muslims or Croats...
...certain that the very people who perpetrated the war will gain recognition as its postwar rulers. Add to that the absolute control of the media on each of the three sides and victory for the micronationalists seems inevitable. "We're under a blockade," says a Socialist party Serb opposition candidate, Zivko Radisic. "In the state media, you won't find a single word about us except to call us traitors and communists...
...tripartite presidency, with one position per ethnic group, is unlikely to lead to a truly unified Bosnia. Just the opposite, says the front-running Serb candidate for the joint presidency, Momcilo Krajisnik. "If the Muslims try to press for a stronger [central government for] Bosnia and Herzegovina, that could lead to collapse," he threatens. Dismissing any talk of reintegration, he adds, "Bosnia is only a thin roof under which it has two, completely sovereign entities." Krajisnik even carries his vision for division to the bicameral parliament's architecture. He has suggested constructing a building on the former confrontation line with...
...concerns, however. On election day as many as 300,000 refugees could try to cross into the towns where they used to live. That promises great volatility and places IFOR in a novel position: acting to support the free movement of peoples. The force has often stood by as Serb thugs, for example, beat up Muslim refugees trying to return home. Such decisions not to intervene came from the highest levels. "The defining moment of the post-Dayton process was the flat refusal of NATO to do anything other than defend itself and enforce the military separation line," says...