Word: serb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: Ethnic cleansing is taking a new form in the Balkans as the stream of Serbs leaving Sarajevo threatened today to become a torrent. Bosnian Serb authorities are violating the spirit of the Dayton peace accords, advising and in some cases coercing the city's 50,000 ethnic Serbs to leave Sarajevo before the Croat-Muslim federation takes over the administration of the Vogosca district of Sarajevo on Friday. Heavy snow is still hampering the efforts of the city's Serbs to leave, but a steady flow of vehicles is leaving the city, and many families are packing...
...also strengthened its hand by turning the military into an instrument of its ideology. After Serb forces attacked Bosnia in April 1992, the party sought help in building up an army by soliciting aid from abroad, especially from countries in the Middle East sympathetic to its plight, such as Iran. As the army grew, the SDA began ordering officers to promote Islamic consciousness. In many barracks, soldiers are called to Islamic prayers, and bulletin boards announce courses about the Koran. The army's 3rd Corps even established a separate brigade composed entirely of devout Muslim soldiers and trained by fighters...
...that gives some support to the idea of a multiethnic state. It has refrained from openly suppressing opposition parties, and it tolerates independent newspapers and radio that engage in lively and often critical public debate. Izetbegovic's party has also put some effort into cultivating relations with Croat and Serb communities, sponsoring funds for rebuilding Catholic and Serbian orthodox churches, as well as mosques...
...HAVE NEVER SEEN A MASS GRAVE AS HORrible as the one shown in the photograph with your article "Unearthing Evil" [WORLD, Jan. 29], about fresh evidence of war crimes in Bosnia. It is a new Holocaust. What is the difference between Bosnian Serbs and Nazis? Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic must be judged for what he has done. IBRAHIM MUNIR Bristol, England...
SARAJEVO: Although it takes considerable chutzpah to keep NATO, Muslim, and Croat generals waiting in the rain, Bosnian Serb General Zdravko Tolimir did just that on Monday. When Tolimir did not show up for the meeting which was to mark the resumption of Serb contacts with NATO, the other parties flew out to the U.S. aircraft carrier USS George Washington to carry on sans Serbs. NATO commander Admiral Leighton Smith called Tolimir's absence "not very smart," saying the General's political superiors wanted him to be there. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic had agreed in weekend meetings with U.S. envoy...