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Conflict Between Croats, Muslims Plays Out in Streets of Bosnian Town

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)

Fleeing Croats Run Gantlet of Militias; Serb Escort Helps Convoy Reach Safety

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)

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 ...  (Read more)

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 ...  (Read more)

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 ...  (Read more)