Word: serbians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Half the estimated $100 million worth of BOSNIAN RELIEF SHIPMENTS sent to Sarajevo this year have been seized by Serbian troops. U.N. officials have allowed the thefts to take place. Heavily armed Serbian forces surrounding Sarajevo airport skim a large share of every relief shipment as a form of safe-passage payment, carefully selecting all the meat, telephone gear, fire- fighting equipment as well as the newsprint being donated for an independent paper...
...INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY dithered on the margins of the crisis in Yugoslavia, the anguish continued in beleaguered Bosnia-Herzegovina. An aid convoy bound for the town of Srebenica, where some 80,000 Muslims have been trapped by fighting for months, was blocked at the Serbian border for days by Serb militiamen and angry, jeering civilians. A convoy to Goradze was delayed after an escorting personnel carrier hit a mine...
Harvard students cannot simply stand by and watch as civilians are taken from their homes and executed in the name of "ethnic cleansing." Overall, more than 17,000 Bosnians have already been killed as Serbian forces have captured more than 70 percent of Bosnia...
...question, however, is who will be hurt. Even in its newly sharpened form, the embargo remains a blunt instrument. So far, it has done nothing to stop the war still blazing in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The popularity of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has sunk, but he sits as firmly as ever in the saddle. What the sanctions have done is deepen the state of economic extremis for most people in Serbia and Montenegro. By the end of the year, estimates Austrian trade official Karl Syrovatka, 550,000 working people will be carrying the burden of 750,000 unemployed, 1.4 million...
...SPITE OF ECONOMIC SANCTIONS IMPOSED UPON Yugoslavia on May 30, massive smuggling of gasoline keeps traffic heavy on the streets of Belgrade. Though the economy is a shambles, the regime of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has still not been brought to its knees. And the war rages...