Word: vukovar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cover: Executed Croat lying in a street in Vukovar...
After three months of hellish pounding, the dazed citizens of Vukovar stagger out of their cellars into a city turned to rubble...
These look like scenes from World War II, yet they are occurring in the center of Europe in 1991. For three months, the Serbian-controlled army assaulted this Croatian town on the Danube. Vukovar has given up -- but the killing goes...
...despair from a civilian population that has seen its collective lives, homes and loved ones laid waste by artillery and gunboat bombardments. The relentless barrages on Dubrovnik and Vukovar were only the most dramatic reminders of the human toll in this vengeful war between Europeans -- the worst on the Continent since 1945. No one had even begun to add up the economic and physical damage to the country. Was anybody with the power to stop the carnage listening...
...resolution of the crisis seemed to take a little of the ferocity out of the fighting. In Dubrovnik, where the guns were stilled at midweek to permit the evacuation of wounded civilians and 14 European Community monitors, a tenuous cease-fire held from one hour to the next. In Vukovar the fighting also subsided, largely because the Serbs seemed to have subdued the Croatian forces, despite reports that an organized force of holdouts had taken refuge in the sewer system. Although the army continued to pound Vukovar with rockets and artillery, a Western diplomat said, "They're not doing much...