Word: serbians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...might would intimidate others in the confederation. Ethnic conflicts, especially in the south, would be more likely to escalate to all-out war. And a Russian-dominated central army might invite a replay of the disaster that has befallen Yugoslavia, where the supposedly federal army is in reality a Serbian army...
...largest republic, Serbia, had resisted the European Community's attempts to engineer a peaceful future for its neighboring republic, Croatia. Since Croatia declared independence from the Yugoslav federation on June 25, a brutal ethnic war has raged in its eastern region. Croatian security forces are pitted against rebel Serbian residents of the republic who want their homes and fields incorporated into an enlarged Serbia...
...dominated federal Yugoslav People's Army, the rebels have steadily gained control of the roughly one-quarter of Croatian territory where they have a strong ethnic presence. Under those conditions, why should Milosevic, whose power at home is girded by what most Serbs see as a righteous war for Serbian self-determination next door, accept a peace forged by foreigners...
Matic's comrades-in-arms accused the Serbian government of organizing the murder. At the funeral last week, Vuk Draskovic, leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement, the main opposition party, blamed the republic's ruling Socialist -- formerly Communist -- Party, headed by President Slobodan Milosevic. The Ministry of Internal Affairs issued a denial and added that uttering such accusations was illegal...
...struggle between communist and anticommunist forces in Serbia has been intensifying for several months. In March, Draskovic's party led mass demonstrations against the Socialists, and two people were killed in clashes with police. In July, the Serbian parliament banned militias formed outside the republican or national armed forces...