Word: serbians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Serbian officials pounced on a U.N. report on the situation in Bosnia to back their demand that sanctions be lifted immediately. The report, issued by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, pointed out that Croats were also grabbing Bosnian territory. It suggested that Serb forces in Bosnia and their commander, General Ratko Mladic, were outside the control of the government in Belgrade. The Serbs argued that they were therefore being unjustly blamed...
Nonsense, replied Western diplomats in Yugoslavia. The Serb-dominated federal army left behind 80,000 Serb troops when it made a show of pulling out of Bosnia in May. Belgrade armed them and dispatched Mladic to command them. If Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic wants to call them back, the diplomats say, all he has to do is whistle...
...prospect of Serbian domination under the intolerant Milosevic helped speed the secession of Slovenia and Croatia, whose own fanatically nationalist leader fueled fears among the Serb minority there. It was as the savior of the Serbs who live outside Serbia's borders -- nearly one-third of the community -- that Milosevic entered the fray. His strategy has been simple -- and effective. He stirs up Serbs with talk of imminent genocide, then sets his proxies loose to "protect" them, with fatal consequences for Croats and Muslims. Yet he insists that his aim is not the creation of a Greater Serbia, only...
...Brussels the European Community imposed limited economic sanctions on the rump Yugoslav state at midweek. The Serbian Orthodox Church said it was "openly distancing itself" from the government in Belgrade. Then came the revolting images of death in Sarajevo's marketplace and the U.S., Britain and France pressed the U.N. Security Council to impose full, mandatory sanctions...
Russia and China, who are permanent members of the Council, had been reluctant to go along with the sanctions plan. Its measures range from a complete trade embargo, including oil shipments, to cutting air links and freezing Serbian assets abroad. After quiet negotiations, the Security Council passed the resolution Saturday. Even so, no one was predicting that Serbia and its hard-nosed President Slobodan Milosevic would quickly move to end the bloodshed. (See cover stories beginning on page...