Word: travnik
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bosnian government forces attacked a communications tower held by Bosnian Serbs outside the northeastern city of Tuzla, breaking a truce that began New Year's Day and was scheduled to expire May 1. After the Serbs responded by shelling Tuzla and another government-held town, Travnik, in central Bosnia, a return to all-out war seemed inevitable...
...chilling course of the war in Bosnia. But few stories match the horror of an alleged incident reported late last month for the first time: the massacre in August of more than 200 Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb militia at the edge of a ravine near Travnik. Like some other Balkan tales, this one is impossible to verify independently. Bosnia's Muslim authorities claim to have details, but Serb leader Radovan Karadzic says he knows nothing of a massacre. In the meantime, one escapee, Semir K., 24, shivered with vivid memory as he poured out this account...
...spent two nights and two days in the river, walking but mostly swimming. I thought I was heading southeast toward Muslim-controlled Travnik. I was lost and in shock. Once I walked right into a Serb trench. They barked a question, and I said I was going to fetch water, holding up an empty canister I'd found. I just walked toward whatever the tanks were firing at, since I knew the Muslims didn't have tanks...
Later I went to the authorities in Jajce and told my story. I was taken to Travnik, where I knew my mother and sister-in-law had gone before our village was cleansed. I found my sister-in-law, who asked me where the others were. I couldn't tell her they were dead...
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