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Planning routes is impossible here as well. Gracanica is, more or less, my homebase—a Muslim-dominated town about five minutes from the Serb-controlled area of Bosnia. But in order to get to Banja Luka and the Pope, not even the most innocuous parishioner can follow the straight-shot from Gracanica. Instead, a side-trip to find some Catholic traveling companions is necessary; in this case, I was told about the existence of a hold-out cove in nearby Dubrave. Arriving outside the supposed Franciscan monastery here, one can see a faint yellow line surrounding the area?...
...from a silent, self-reflective end to a mass, the “Croats” (really, they are Bosnians per their nationality, though they call themselves Croats) began singing loud Catholic folk music, waving red-and-white checkerboard flags, wearing shirts of the same colors, passing close to Serb military men who didn’t look at all amused by these outbursts. The same flag remembered largely as the symbol of Croatia’s fascist regime during World War II, under which proper Croats made refugees out of some 300,000 Serbs less than 100 miles away...
...crimes suspect, who was hailed as a hero of the country's independence struggle; in Zagreb. Bobetko fought in the antifascist forces during World War II and then joined the Yugoslav army. After Croatia's 1991 declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, which triggered a six-month war against Serb rebels, Bobetko joined the Croatian army and was appointed its Chief of Staff in 1992. Last September the U.N. war-crimes tribunal in the Hague accused Bobetko of being responsible for the killings of some 100 Serb civilians and soldiers during a 1993 Croatian offensive to retake an area seized...
...public philosopher, says he's always been fighting the same adversary: "the will to purity," whether political or racial. In a long career of public causes, he has seen that ill will on the faces of Nazi sympathizers, the Soviet nomenklatura, Pakistani generals fighting against Bangladesh's independence, and Serb paramilitaries bent on ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. Now he sees it in militant Islam - which he believes is perilously close to acquiring nuclear arms. Lévy's latest book was not prompted by political theory, but brute fact: the murder of kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl...
...changed. Milosevic is long gone, on trial for war crimes in the Hague. But last week Lukovic, who has since left the special police force for the world of organized crime, allegedly felt Djindjic coming after him - and decided it was time to do something about it. According to Serb officials, the ex-commando ordered the assassination of Djindjic, Serbia's first Prime Minister in the democratic era, to avoid being put in jail himself. The gangland-style assassination - Djindjic was gunned down by sniper fire in broad daylight - recalled both the reign of terror that seized Serbia...