Word: serbians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...northwest Bosnian village of Kozarac, 50 miles from their hometown, life is hard for Zamaklaar's mother, father, grandmother, sister and brother. They have no income, and local Serbian dinar notes, one of three currencies circulating in Bosnia, are all but worthless. "They don't know anybody here. They just sit in the house all day and think about what happened to them," said Zamaklaar...
Before the Bosnian war, Prijedor, a town of 30,000 six miles from Kozarac, was a busy industrial center. Now its rail yards are silent. The lumber mills, food-processing plants and iron mines have shut down. Schools will not open this fall. The Serbian militia provides almost the only employment...
...Serbs around Kozarac express little remorse for the countless Muslim homes they have destroyed and tens of thousands of lives they have shattered in "cleansing" northwestern Bosnia. Their main interest now is in improving their own living conditions in the territory they have taken. Serbian officials told a visiting Western delegation last week that if the Muslim government in Sarajevo wanted peace, it would first have to reopen the roads, railroads and air space and restore the telephone and electricity lines it has cut off. "If we don't have electricity, if we don't have fuel," said Milan Covacevic...
...countryside and the Muslims earned higher wages working in the town factories. Many of the Muslims of Kozarac had gone as guest workers to Germany and come home years later to build well-furnished villas that provoked the envy of their Serb neighbors. Muslim survivors tell how the Serbian militia came with trucks to round up women and children last May; their location is still unknown. The next day the Serbs returned to loot the Muslims' tractors, cows, cars and furniture. Survivors say more than 5,000 men were beaten to death or shot when they tried to defend their...
...Some of the Muslim men trucked out of Kozarac still live in famished misery less than a mile away in makeshift tents at the Trnopolje camp, supposedly under the "protection" of Serbian irregulars. They can see the minaret of the Kozarac mosque down the road and are sometimes allowed to pick fruit from the gardens of their destroyed homes. When they venture out, they see Serb newcomers from Muslim-held areas watching them from the windows and doorways of the few Muslim dwellings still standing...