The Washington Post
September 12, 1992
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Category: Bosnia 1992-1993
Serbs Chase 14,000 Muslims and Now Hold a Ghost Town; Two-Thirds of Visegrad Dead, Seized or on the Run
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 Serb militiamen and killed ...
Serb Gunners View Sarajevo Differently; Besieging Militiamen Fear and Concede Little
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 of Sarajevo live in daily ...
‘Cleansing’ Comes Home to Serbia; Hungarians, Croats Driven from Towns
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.
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Illusory Serb Prison Camp Materializes; Hundreds Held at Bosnian Facility That Militia Said Did Not Exist
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 of armed Serb guards, the prisoners ...
In Bosnia, ‘Disloyal Serbs’ Share Plight of Opposition
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 here in the largest city of ...
With Crowbar as Key, Serbs Take Over ‘Cleansed’ Homes
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 Croats. When the family arrived ...
Bosnian Serb Retaliation Pins Muslims in Their Homes
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., several more grenades shredded ...
As Sanctions Bite, Serbs Look Warily Toward Winter
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 must wait in gas lines ...
Serb Looters Pick Bones of ‘Cleansed’ Bosnia
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, lampshades and kitchenware. ...