Word: vukovar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crimes Arkan and his men are believed to have committed in Croatia and Bosnia are chilling. In August 1991 his troops cut their teeth by driving civilian Croats from the city of Vukovar, looting and burning along the way. Arkan and his men stand accused of having tortured, mutilated and killed Muslims in the northeast Bosnian town of Bijeljina in April 1992. And in Zvornik that same month, his troops cleared the town of Muslims, extorting money from civilians for safe passage out of the hell they had created...
...Serbian hosts led us to the Museum of Applied Art in Belgrade to see a photo exhibit designed to justify their ethnic cleansing and brutal destruction at Vukovar. In a glass case was a steel instrument that looked like a tuning fork, but with the prongs spaced 3 1/2 in. apart. The Croat Ustache used to use the handy device to gouge out Serb prisoners' eyes, both at once. Applied art, indeed...
...longer you put off standing up to aggressive dictators, the higher the price. If we had called Hitler's bluff when he remilitarized the Rhineland in 1936, 50 million lives might have been spared. If we had stood up to Milosevic when his forces besieged the Croatian town of Vukovar in the fall of 1991, perhaps a quarter of a million men, women and children might still be alive. But we--West Europeans and Americans--didn't, and so we now face the prospect...
...arms, ammunition and support to Serbian enclaves throughout the Balkans. Western diplomats suspect that Stanisic had an important role in organizing Serbia's paramilitary infiltrations in the Croatian city of Knin in 1990 and the paramilitary operations in 1991 that preceded Serbian army incursions into the Croatian city of Vukovar. Those Serbian moves resulted in appalling atrocities, including the slaughter of 260 wounded soldiers and civilians at a hospital in Vukovar...
...style of command is confirmed by Borisav Jovic, the last head of the joint federal presidency that ruled unified Yugoslavia from Tito's death until its breakup. He was an intimate who shared in Milosevic's decision making until mid-1992. He tells TIME that the merciless siege of Vukovar, in which Croats claim some 2,000 of their kin perished, illustrates Milosevic's method. The President made a "general decision" to "free" Yugoslav army troops in barracks "blockaded" inside predominantly Croat cities. "No siege order was issued," says Jovic; Serb troops merely went to the aid of their confreres...