Category: Washington Post

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 ...  (Read more)

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 ...  (Read more)

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 ...  (Read more)

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.

They told Klobucar, a Croat who uses a wheelchair, to leave town in 24 hours — or they would ...  (Read more)

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 ...  (Read more)

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 ...  (Read more)

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 ...  (Read more)

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., ...  (Read more)

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 ...  (Read more)

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, ...  (Read more)