Category: Washington Post

The Washington Post
November 7, 1992

VITEZ, Bosnia – Where others have failed, Lt. Col. Robert Stewart believes he can succeed.

Freshly arrived in central Bosnia, Stewart and his 800-strong British military detachment are supposed to escort U.N. relief shipments for refugees and trapped civilians. ...  (Read more)

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 camp, took a short, nervous ...  (Read more)

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 almost outside the range ...  (Read more)

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 a column of destitution ...  (Read more)

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 from Jajce, a former Bosnian ...  (Read more)

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 imposed martial law ...  (Read more)

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 15 minutes, the streets of ...  (Read more)

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 last weekend after ...  (Read more)

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 Bosnian Serbs have agreed ...  (Read more)

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, hit-and-run attacks by ...  (Read more)