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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)

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 ...  (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., several more grenades shredded ...  (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 must wait in gas lines ...  (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, lampshades and kitchenware. ...  (Read more)

The Washington Post
August 13, 1992

BATKOVIC, Bosnia – Seeking to avert international censure, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has promised relief agencies and journalists free access to Serb-run detention camps here, but the four Serb militiamen had not gotten the message.

They were manning ...  (Read more)

The Washington Post
August 12, 1992

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia – This is a city of daytime arrests, midnight beatings and around-the-clock terror.

Serb militiamen drive through town, some wearing black leather masks and gloves, firing automatic weapons in the air, shouting nationalist slogans. Warplanes ...  (Read more)

The Washington Post
August 11, 1992

PRIJEDOR, Bosnia – Are Serb leaders in Bosnia trying to cover up evidence of brutal prison camps?

In an effort to prove otherwise, Prijedor Police Chief Simo Drljaca escorted a group of foreign journalists to the Keratern ceramics factory, which Bosnia’s ...  (Read more)

The Washington Post
August 11, 1992

OMARSKA, Bosnia – When the camp guards looked in another direction, the prisoners at the Serb-run detention camp here broke into nervous whispers.

“There’s no doctor here,” one of them breathed. “As soon as you get sick you are shot.”

A ...  (Read more)

The Washington Post
August 11, 1992

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia – The Serbs of Bosnia say they are fighting a war against their Muslim neighbors here because, among other reasons, Bosnia’s Muslims want to set up a radical Islamic state.

The Serb-run press and broadcast media here — and in neighboring ...  (Read more)