Word: serbians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EVEN ANTIDEMOCRATS LIKE SERBIAN PRESIDENT Slobodan Milosevic crave the legitimacy only elections can bestow; what is vexing is the chance of losing. So he fixed the odds. Milosevic now risks almost nothing in upcoming Dec. 20 balloting, since the Serbian Electoral Commission disqualified his most formidable opponent, Yugoslavian Prime Minister Milan Panic, for failing to meet a one-year residency requirement...
Panic, a businessman who made a fortune in California before taking up his post in July, appealed the decision to the Serbian Supreme Court, but that body is headed by the same man who heads the Electoral Commission. Leading opposition figures, citing other electoral shenanigans from the Milosevic camp, have threatened to boycott the elections altogether. (See related story on page...
...Museum of Applied Art, five women stand sobbing in front of the photographs of the burned and mutilated Serbian victims of Vukovar. The women's shoulders heave, tears flood their cheeks. They point to the savaged bodies in the pictures: That was a cousin. That was a brother. That was a husband...
...Popovic is better than he seems. The Serbian camps at Omarska and Trnopolje became notorious earlier in the year. Atrocity stories poured out of them -- beatings, torture, murders. Manjaca now seems disciplined, well regulated. The Serbs of course would not display it otherwise. The prisoners, out of earshot of their captors, speak well enough of the camp, and even compliment Popovic as strict but fair. Popovic returns, defensively wagging his finger, and says he can disprove all the lies the prisoners have been telling. Elie Wiesel raises his eyebrows: "Actually, Colonel...
...Popovic barks on. "They say they are innocent! But did they tell you about the lists of Serbian women they kept that they wanted to put into harems?" There it is again, the Muslim horde. Wiesel calms the colonel and pleads for more blankets for the prisoners...