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 factory, which Bosnia’s ...
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.”
A ...
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 media here — and in neighboring ...
The Washington Post
August 3, 1992
TOPUSKO, Croatia – The Serbs who control this part of Croatia describe it as liberated territory. Topusko has been liberated of running water, electricity and virtually all its Croat inhabitants.
Shops are closed — they have been liberated of their goods ...
The Washington Post
July 27, 1992
CATEZ, Croatia, July 26 – Six busloads of Bosnian women and children rolled up to a Slovenian border station near here Saturday and asked to be allowed to drive through Slovenia to promised sanctuary in the Netherlands.
More than 24 hours later, they are still ...
The Washington Post
July 25, 1992
KARLOVAC, Croatia, July 24 – Firing shots into the air and broadcasting threats over loudspeakers, ethnic Serbs in the Bosnian city of Bosanski Novi forced thousands of Muslims to join a United Nations evacuation convoy that was intended only for voluntary departures, ...
The Washington Post
July 24, 1992
KARLOVAC, Croatia, July 23 – About 4,500 terrified Slavic Muslims emerged from the Bosnian city of Bosanski Novi today after U.N. personnel carved out an emergency land corridor to rescue them from shootings, beatings and jailings at the hands of local Serbs.
“I ...
The Washington Post
July 23, 1992
POPUCKO, Croatia, July 22 – Serb militia forces are using threats, arrests and beatings to terrify Slavic Muslims in Bosnia-Hercegovina into fleeing their homes, U.N. officials said here today.
“A major tool being used is fear,” said Jenf Boersted, ...
The Washington Post
July 22, 1992
SARAJEVO – The French sentry sipped his cafe au lait from a tin cup, glanced through the shattered glass of his airport guard booth and listened calmly to the whiz, boom and thud of bullets and mortar shells around him. He liked what he heard.
He motioned to his ...
The Washington Post
July 19, 1992
BOSANSKI BROD, Bosnia – Ali Enic and hundreds of other refugees here are caught in a vise. Behind them are rampaging Serb militia forces. Ahead of them, just across a short bridge to safety, is a Croatian machine gun.
For six days, desperate men fleeing bloody ...
