Word: serbians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...United States, would be deployed to protect U.N. convoys and help get detainees on both sides out of the war zones. For its part, Washington praised Croatia for interdicting an Iranian plane carrying weapons intended for Bosnian Muslim forces, and also urged a ban on military flights, to thwart Serbian bombing runs in Bosnia...
...Kozarac is not a safe place yet," admitted Milomir Stakic, the new Serbian mayor of Prijedor. He took the place of his democratically elected Muslim predecessor when Serbian forces began brutally "cleansing" the area last spring. His statements were the first confirmation that Muslim guerrillas are operating in the area. "Last night two Serbs were killed and their bodies were burned in Kozarac," he acknowledged. "Groups of Muslim extremists have withdrawn to the Kozara mountains. They could hide there for another six months, even a year...
During World War II, 100,000 German troops were unable to dislodge Serb fighters from the local mountains. Yet Stakic, like other Serbian officials, failed to see the irony of this role reversal, or of the Serbs' use of the Nazi term ethnic cleansing. He insisted the Serbs were only uprooting Muslim "extremists" when they ravaged Kozarac. Look at Cela, he said, a nearby village of 1,200 Muslims and 500 Serbs where both are living in model harmony...
Cowed by the intimidation, the Cela Muslims tried appeasement. "We made a deal with the Serbian authorities," said a village leader. "We fly white flags on our houses as a sign of our loyalty. We will not oppose them, and they will not harm us. So far, they have kept their word, but we don't know about the future." Meantime, they try to lead normal lives, harvesting their plums to sell to Serb neighbors for making slivovitz. Though most are afraid to leave the village, a few brave souls carry food each day to the men at the Trnopolje...
...dangerous passage for all concerned: winners, losers and bystanders. Two years ago, Saddam Hussein concluded that the demise of the Soviet Union as a superpower had created a regional vacuum he could fill. The result was the invasion of Kuwait and Desert Storm. Last year a clique of Serbian Marxists tried to maintain its authority over other South Slavs who no longer needed Belgrade to protect them from Moscow. The result was the Balkan cataclysm...