The Washington Post
November 3, 1992
KARLOVAC, Croatia – It started off, Ibrahim recalled, as the usual nighttime brutality, but it ended up as a beating to end all beatings.
Ibrahim, a Slavic Muslim who was freed after being held for two months at a Bosnian Serb prison ...
The Washington Post
November 2, 1992
TRAVNIK, Bosnia – It was on the home stretch to safety that the wrath of Serb gunners caught up with housewife Nijaza Dizdar.
After a harrowing 35-mile journey from the Serb-captured city of Jajce, Dizdar and her Muslim family were ...
The Washington Post
November 1, 1992
KARAULA, Bosnia – In an epic scene reminiscent of World War II, more than 30,000 Muslims and Croats are streaming out of the fallen city of Jajce. Some are leaving in cars, but most are walking or riding in wooden hay wagons, forming ...
The Washington Post
October 31, 1992
TRAVNIK, Bosnia, Oct. 30 – Limping and bleeding, thousands of Muslims and Croats arrived here today after dodging Serb artillery fire as they fled on foot from a fallen city that they say is burning behind them.
The first escapees ...
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 ...
