Word: republika
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bosnia, by not sticking to the spirit of the 1995 Dayton peace accord and allowing the wartime leadership of Republika Srpska to put down roots in the postwar power structure, the West left room for much of the war scum to float back to the top. These men pumped out heavily separatist and anti-Western propaganda while they obstructed the implementation of Dayton's provisions for reunification. Two weeks ago, as the delicately stitched-together nation seemed to be recovering, the Serbs in their republic voted out moderate President Biljana Plavsic, a key part of Western plans to build...
...behind in achieving the treaty's goal of a unified Bosnia before U.S. peacekeepers are scheduled to leave next summer, and no closer to the cherished goal of bringing Karadzic to the court of justice in the Hague. Backing Plavsic is a gamble, but in the quagmire of Republika Srpska, admits a State Department official, "there don't seem to be alternatives. She's the only one who's stepped up to the plate...
...gain independence for the territory they seized at the beginning of the war. The two most important preconditions for free and fair elections laid out in the peace agreement--freedom of movement and the return of refugees--have not been met. Almost no Muslims or Croats live in the Republika Srpska, and discrimination against Serbs is widespread in the federation put together by Muslims and Croats, who themselves live in ethnic enclaves...
...FOUR YEARS, RADOVAN KARADZIC was the Bosnian Serbs' fuhrer. The self-proclaimed President of the Republika Srpska defied the world, and his course as leader was as unrestrained as his trademark double-winged haircut. A psychiatrist and sometime poet, Karadzic based his implacable ideology on ethnic purity and enforced it with paramilitary storm troopers who intimidated moderate Serbs and used brutality and terror to drive Muslims out of his lands. But last week it was clear that his authority as voice of his people was at an end. He could barely command the attention of a group of fellow Bosnian...
...their hated enemies, Serbs are threatening to leave their homes in those suburbs and in the corridor to Gorazde in eastern Bosnia. Around Gorazde, some Serbs were stripping their homes of everything transportable--in at least one case literally including the kitchen sink--and setting out for the Serbs' Republika Srpska, newly recognized by the Paris deal. At night, convoys of army trucks trundle down the treacherous mountain slopes and haul out the insides of factories and military bases. The potential for new violence was underscored when two grenades and a mortar fired from the direction of Serb-held territory...