The Washington Post
October 29, 1992
MOSTAR, Bosnia – The Bosnian government’s Muslim troops in this city are being held quasi-captive — not by their declared enemies, the Serbs, but by their erstwhile allies, the Croat militia.
Croat forces last week effectively ...
The Washington Post
October 25, 1992
PROZOR, Bosnia – The mechanic paused as he fixed a flat tire and cast a nervous glance at the carloads of gun-toting militiamen thundering past his garage.
“The show is about to begin,” he whispered. He was right.
Within ...
The Washington Post
October 24, 1992
ZAGREB – In Bosnia-Hercegovina, there is no such thing as “safe passage” from trouble.
That is the harrowing lesson 1,000 ethnic Croats learned when they agreed to abandon their surrounded villages in Serb-controlled territory ...
The Washington Post
October 22, 1992
KARLOVAC, Croatia – For 10,000 Muslims wasting away in Bosnian Serb prison camps, the main barrier to freedom is no longer their well-armed guards, in the view of relief officials, it is American and West European indifference.
The ...
The Washington Post
September 17, 1992
PALE, Bosnia – After five months of waging aggressive war, Serb nationalist forces here claim to have carved their own independent state out of Bosnia. For now, it looks more like a state of insecurity.
Throughout Serb-held Bosnia, ...
The Washington Post
September 12, 1992
CAJNICE, Bosnia – Dushko Kornjaca used to be a doctor, a healer of the sick. But when factional warfare broke out, he swapped his stethoscope for an assault rifle and turned into a Bosnian Serb warlord fighting under the name “Commander ...
The Washington Post
September 10, 1992
VISEGRAD, Bosnia – This is a Muslim city without Muslims.
They are gone, all 14,000 who made up two-thirds of the city’s population. The lucky ones fled two months ago in buses or on foot. The unlucky ones were arrested by ...
The Washington Post
September 3, 1992
LUKAVICA, Bosnia – From a sandbagged Serb machine-gun nest on a wooded mountainside here, the view of Sarajevo — and of the war in Bosnia — is different from that within the ruined, besieged city below.
Although the people ...
The Washington Post
August 30, 1992
HRTKOVCI, Yugoslavia – Three Serbs walked into Zladko Klobucar’s Courvoisier Cafe a few days ago and placed an unusual order.
They told Klobucar, a Croat who uses a wheelchair, to leave town in 24 hours — or they would ...
The Washington Post
August 27, 1992
BATKOVIC, Bosnia – More than 1,500 Slavic Muslims are crammed into two fetid livestock sheds here, crouching silently amid the stench of filth and fear in a prison camp that Serb security forces swore did not exist.
Under the gaze ...
