The Washington Post
August 24, 1992
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia – The Serb nationalist forces that are terrorizing and evicting Bosnia’s Slavic Muslims and Croats have found a new target: “disloyal Serbs.”
Spasoje Knezevic, a prominent lawyer and politician ...
The Washington Post
August 23, 1992
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia – Stana Milanovic broke into her new home with a crowbar the other day.
Milanovic, 25, is a Bosnian Serb. Along with her husband and three children, she was chased out of her farmhouse in a village controlled by ...
The Washington Post
August 22, 1992
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia – At least one Muslim resident of the Bosnian town of Celinac had no trouble waking up one day a week ago. Serb soldiers fired a rocket-propelled grenade into his bedroom.
As the man dove to the floor about 1 a.m., ...
The Washington Post
August 18, 1992
BELGRADE – After two months, the U.N. trade embargo against Serbia and the new Yugoslav state it controls is beginning to bite.
Gasoline rationing limits motorists to about five gallons a month, and people here in the Yugoslav capital ...
The Washington Post
August 17, 1992
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia – Warfare has prevented many Serb farmers here from planting their fields, but they are collecting a bumper harvest of loot.
Along roads gouged by mortar fire, unabashed farmers drive hay wagons heaped with rugs, sofas, ...
The Washington Post
August 13, 1992
BATKOVIC, Bosnia – Seeking to avert international censure, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has promised relief agencies and journalists free access to Serb-run detention camps here, but the four Serb militiamen had not gotten the message.
They ...
The Washington Post
August 12, 1992
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia – This is a city of daytime arrests, midnight beatings and around-the-clock terror.
Serb militiamen drive through town, some wearing black leather masks and gloves, firing automatic weapons in the air, shouting nationalist ...
The Washington Post
August 11, 1992
PRIJEDOR, Bosnia – Are Serb leaders in Bosnia trying to cover up evidence of brutal prison camps?
In an effort to prove otherwise, Prijedor Police Chief Simo Drljaca escorted a group of foreign journalists to the Keratern ceramics ...
The Washington Post
August 11, 1992
OMARSKA, Bosnia – When the camp guards looked in another direction, the prisoners at the Serb-run detention camp here broke into nervous whispers.
“There’s no doctor here,” one of them breathed. “As soon as you get sick you are shot.”
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The Washington Post
August 11, 1992
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia – The Serbs of Bosnia say they are fighting a war against their Muslim neighbors here because, among other reasons, Bosnia’s Muslims want to set up a radical Islamic state.
The Serb-run press and broadcast ...
