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The Search for a Secret Prison Camp; Reporters’ Queries Provoke Angry Serb Response

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)

Banja Luka, a Town Without Pity; Bosnian Serbs Accelerate Expulsions of Muslims and Croats

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)

Serb Rebuffs Torture Allegations, Limits Visit by Foreign Journalists

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)

Bosnian Serbs Say They’re Fighting Against Islamic Fundamentalism

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)