Word: serb
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WHEN A DETERMINED RAbija Osman Oprhal recently walked across a Sarajevo bridge from the ruined Serb-held neighborhood of Grbavica, a Bosnian soldier at a sandbagged checkpoint stared in astonishment at her identity documents. Hers is a Muslim name, and for more than three years Grbavica had been an "ethnically cleansed" stronghold of Serb extremism. "How is it that you have come from over there?" he asked. Rabija, 52, fixed the man with her gray-blue eyes. "I live there," she replied...
...Rabija and a tiny handful of other Muslims appeared out of the rubble in recent weeks, few had thought it possible that any of its once large Muslim population could have survived in Grbavica. During the long siege of Sarajevo, this modern metropolitan area had been a haunt of Serb bands like Vojislav Seselj's White Eagles and Zeljko ("Arkan") Raznatovic's Tigers, who used it as a base for snipers and mortar attacks on the government-held center. Muslims who failed to flee at the start of war in April 1992 found themselves trapped inside the enclave, facing death...
SARAJEVO: "Sarajevo never had an ethnic majority, and today it is definetely dominated by one group, not only in terms of demographics but also politically," reports TIME's Massimo Calabresi from the city. After almost four years of war, the last of five Serb-held areas came under the control of the Muslim-Croat Federation Tuesday. Following days of looting, arson and reported rape by angry Serbs, 100 Federation police moved into the Serb suburb of Grbavica. Hours before, departing Serbs had tossed grenades and set buildings ablaze before fleeing. The mixed Federation police force -- 75 Muslims, 20 Serbs...
GENEVA: Secretary of State Warren Christopher meets with Balkan leaders today in an attempt to bolster the U.S. brokered peace process in Yugoslavia. The peace process is being tested by Bosnian Serbs who are fleeing their homes in the Sarajevo suburb of Grbavica anticipating the transfer of control to the Muslim-Croat Federation on Tuesday. Many Bosnian Serbs are torching their homes as they move out, and groups of Serb thugs, roaming the area looting and burning houses, harass Serb residents who refuse to leave. Arson and looting took place in other Sarajevo suburbs, but not with the violence...
VOGOSCA, BOSNIA: The Bosnian Muslim-Croat Federation was supposed to have a day of reconciliation with Serbs on Friday as it took over the administration of the Serb-held Vogosca suburb of Sarajevo. Instead, officials took over the administration of a nearly empty town. Most of the 24,000 Bosnian Serbs who inhabited Vogosca had already fled for Serb territory, and the Muslim-Croat police made their way to the city hall down quiet, deserted streets. When they got there, they may have confirmed fears the few remaining Serbs had about the transfer of power. The new bosses raised...