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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)

The Washington Post
September 12, 1992

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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 ...  (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 of Sarajevo live in daily ...  (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.

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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 ...  (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 here in the largest city of ...  (Read more)