Word: serb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...INFURIATED TO READ IN YOUR report "Strange Route to Peace" [THE BALKANS, Oct. 23] that Bosnian Muslims "doubtless treated the Serbs much as the Serbs treated the Muslims.'' If that is so, then why haven't massive murders and rapes been reported? In war, people are killed and sometimes forced to move to safer areas, but the Serbs' actions, including rape, massive killing, live burning and "death camps,'' aren't considered normal. Yes, the Serbs are leaving the Muslim-held areas, but, as U.N. reports have noted, most of them are leaving of their own accord, before the Muslim soldiers...
Meeting at the heavily guarded Wright-Patterson Air Force Base outside Dayton, Ohio, the leaders of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia made limited progress on plans for ending the 42-month-old war in Bosnia. Secretary of State Warren Christopher said the U.S. expects Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic to be ousted from power shortly; the two have been indicted by an international tribunal as war criminals...
Everyone has agreed on a roughly 49-51 split of Bosnia's land between the Serb entity and the federation. But fierce disputes rage about who gets which specific pieces of territory. The width of a strip of land called the Posavina Corridor, which connects Serbia with the Bosnian Serbs, is the most contentious of these quarrels...
With a meeting in Moscow postponed by Yeltsin's illness, the leaders of Bosnia's warring parties prepared for the U.S.-sponsored talks set for this week in Dayton, Ohio. One hopeful sign: the first civilian convoy to reach Sarajevo since the Bosnian war began in 1992 traveled through Serb-held territory with a welcome cargo of flour and cement. A less hopeful sign: in Croatia, President Franjo Tudjman said that if the final slice of Croatian territory held by Bosnian Serbs is not relinquished through negotiation by the end of November, the Croatian army will move to retake...
...Tudjman said he would take the city of Vukovar, in the disputed area, by force." Despite such progress, however, Secretary of State Warren Christopher has said that "vast differences [remain] to be bridged." Christopher has insisted on dealing with human rights questions, including the massacres of Muslims by Bosnian Serbs. He has also made it clear that no U.S. troops would be sent to the area if Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic -- now under indictment by the international war crimes tribunal -- are still in power...