Word: montenegro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Muslim towns along Bosnia's eastern borders with Serbia and Montenegro, Serbian guerrillas have been waging what amounts to an "ethnic cleansing" campaign since early April. Last week the village of Turalici took its turn. "They encircled the place and cut off communications," says Nijaz Rustemovic, 36, a Muslim engineer who lives in nearby Kladanj. "They went door to door and expelled the people who hadn't already fled. Then they spilled oil all around and lit the village on fire." Other cleansings have reportedly included executions of scores of people. In Croatia, Serbian irregulars continue to expel Croats from...
Until five years ago, his life read like a Bolshevik parable, though shadowed by personal tragedy. He was born in 1941 in the town of Pozarevac, near Belgrade, where he still keeps a modest weekend home. His father was a seminary-trained teacher of religion from Montenegro and his mother a fervent communist; the two quarreled incessantly over ideological issues. Early on, his father abandoned the family, went back to Montenegro and later committed suicide. An uncle, a general in the army, died by his own hand as well. When Slobodan's mother killed herself in 1974, she reportedly left...
...Communist Party and eventually as boss of the Serbian Communist Party. When the time came to slough off his mentor in late 1987, he did so with ruthless precision. By 1989 he was the unchallenged president of Serbia and today presides over what is left of Yugoslavia: Serbia, Montenegro and the two provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina...
Most Western observers put primary blame for the desperate situation on Milosevic and his Serb followers. By this reading, their incessant attempts to dominate the other ethnic groups in Yugoslavia caused every erstwhile republic but tiny Montenegro to secede. Then Milosevic sought to salvage a kind of Greater Serbia from the wreckage by encouraging Serb-populated regions of the breakaway republics to resist secession -- and providing the crude military means to do so. Around U.N. headquarters in New York City, some diplomats are reminded of the way Hitler used the supposed need to protect German minorities in Czechoslovakia...
...system. By the time of his death in 1980, the country was already unraveling. Political power had decentralized, the relatively prosperous economy was faltering, and old tensions began to rise. The richer republics of the northwest, Slovenia and Croatia, felt their development was hampered by the poorer republics of Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia. Serbia was hated by the rest for dominating the government and the army; in turn it saw preserving unity at all costs as a mission, given weight by fears that Serbs in other republics were threatened by emerging nationalist regimes...