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Serbian Forces Mass Raped Women to Boost Morale and Spread War Propaganda

“Actual rapes of Bosniak and Croatian women by Serbian soldiers, filmed as they happen, have been shown on the evening news in Banja Luka, a Serbian-occupied city in western Bosnia-Herzegovina. The women were presented as Serbian and as being raped … Continue reading

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Krajina Serb Planes Terrorized Bihac, UN Safe Haven

Russian Leaders Issue Tepid Response to Strike Foreign Minister of Russia, Mr. Kozyrev, said retaliatory NATO air strikes against Krajina Serbs were carried out because Croatia’s “Serbs have meddled in fighting in the most barbaric way, hitting Bosniak civilians.” Star-News, … Continue reading

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Bloodshed in Bihac: 11 Wounded, 7 Dead

Bloodshed in Bihac Rocks Truce Toledo Blade, p.2 16 January 1995. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — With a new escalation of fighting in northwest Bosnia, a U.N.-brokered truce seemed dangerously close to collapse yesterday without clearing the first of many hurdles. … Continue reading

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Croatian Serbs Cross-Border Attack Bihac in Bosnia

Serbs from the so-called “demilitarised” zone of the self-declared Republic of Serbian Krajina in Croatia are engaging in cross-border attacks against the besieged Bosniak enclave of Bihac. Croatian President called on NATO to bomb Serbs. The top U.N. official in … Continue reading

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American-led Force Bombs Airfield Held by Serbs

Background: Croatian Serb (aka: Krajina Serb) stationed in the so called demilitarized zone of the self-declared “Republic of Serbian Krajina” have used the fighter planes from Udbina airfield to bomb the besieged Bosniak civilians in the Bihac area of Bosnia … Continue reading

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Serbs Capture Bihac Bridgeheads in Tank Blitz

New Straits Time, p. Front 10 September 1994. SARAJEVO, Fri. — Serb forces captured two bridgeheads in the Bosnian-held Bihac enclave in northwest Bosnia after a sudden tank-led offensive, UN military officials said today. The officials also blamed Serbs for … Continue reading

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Bosnia Routs Renegade Fikret Abdic Militia

By Chuck Sudetic The New York Times Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, p.A4 22 August 1994  SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Though its advances are relatively modest and may not endure, Bosnia’s outgunned army has for the first time in more than two years pressed … Continue reading

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Croatian Serbs Shell Bihac, Interrupt Bosnian Truce

By George Jahn The Daily Gazette, p.C7 17 June 1994. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Croatian Serbs unleashed heavy artillery fire across the Bosnian border to support rebel Bosniak forces fighting the Bosnian army, the United Nations said Thursday. In Sarajevo, … Continue reading

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Krajina Serbs Cluster Bomb Bosniak Civilians in Bihac Enclave

Rockets Kill 3, Wound 60 in Bihac Reading Eagle, p.A2 6 September 1994 ZAGREB, Croatia — Three rockets, possibly fired by Croatian rebel Serbs, crashed into the Bosniak enclave of Bihac, killing three people and wounding more than 60, many … Continue reading

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Northern Bosnia: 2000 Bosniaks Feared Killed

2,000 missing Bosniaks feared slain in Bosnia Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, p.A7 By John Pomfret The Washington Post 20 October 1995. ZAGREB, Croatia — As many as 2,000 Bosniak men remain missing in northern Bosnia from a recent spate of “ethnic cleansing,” … Continue reading

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Serbs Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Forget Past

Serbian faking of history helps create a new myth of Serb victimhood… By Trudy Rubin Star-News, p.8A 30 January 1996. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, George Santayana reminds us. That’s why Richard Goldstone, chief prosecutor for … Continue reading

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Bosnia: The Help That Mattered, by Alija Izetbegovic

By Alija Izetbegovic in Sarajevo (The former chairman of the presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.) Nov 16, 2001. After the tragic events of September 11, the world has seemed polarised between an anti-Islamic West and an anti-American Muslim East. There … Continue reading

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Croatian Serbs Attack Bihac with Napalm and Cluster Bombs

Pressure on Serb Rebels Stepped Up Sunday Star-News, front page 20 November 1994. UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Anxious to stop Serb attacks on the “safe zone” of Bihac in northwest Bosnia, the Security Council on Saturday authorized NATO to bomb … Continue reading

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Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan, War Criminal in Serbian Parliament

“Arkan’s forces, aided by those of Seselj, murdered between 2,000 and 3,000 Muslim men, women and children in May in Brcko, in north-eastern Bosnia. The month before, in the eastern Bosnian town of Zvornik, the Tigers killed Muslim men in … Continue reading

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Bosnia Raises Death Toll as Cease-Fire Violated

Bangor Daily News, p.5 1 December 1992. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnian Serb shells allegedly struck a Croatian town Monday in violation of a new cease-fire, and the Bosnian government raised its toll of dead in the war by more … Continue reading

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Serbs Holding Hostage 400 U.N. Peacekeepers in Bosnia

The Daily Gazette 30 November 1994. By Samir Krilic ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — The Bosnian Serbs have taken 400 U.N. peacekeepers hostage, jeopardizing the entire U.N. mission in the war-torn country. The Serbs began detaining some of the 24,000 peacekeepers … Continue reading

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Bihac: Croatia Threatens Intervention After the Fall of Srebrenica

Battle for Bihac Triggers Renewed War Lodi News-Sentinel, p.22 27 July 1995. ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — The battle raging south of here around the Bosnian enclave of Bihac threatens to ignite renewed war in Croatia and a wider regional conflict. … Continue reading

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At least 70 Bosniak Refugees from Vlasenica Die of Starvation

At least 70 people, most of them children, starved to death in a region east of Sarajevo that has been mostly overrun by Serbs. Bosniaks Defend Sarajevo Airport; Starvation Reported The News-Journal, p.8A 7 December 1992. By David Crary Of … Continue reading

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Missing Out Core Points on Bosnia

New Straits Times, p.10 18 February 1994. By Tan Sri Ghazali Shafie When I glanced through the newspapers and listened to the radio or watched the television I cannot help feeling that wittingly or otherwise the world is led to sniff … Continue reading

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Meet Baby Emina, Born to Muslim Rape Victim in the Bosnian Genocide

The Spokesman-Review 13 January 1993. ZAGREB, Croatia — She has no official name, but nurses at Petrova maternity hospital call her Emina [Bosnian Muslim name]. The baby was born in November to 17-year-old Bosniak girl who said she was raped … Continue reading

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The deafening silence: A Diet of Serbian Imperialism

By Linda Paric Green Left, Issue #56. 20 May 1992. On Mother’s Day 1992, my village died. It was killed by Serbian mortars, guns and bombs. It never made the news, just like dozens of Croatian and Muslim villages and … Continue reading

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Serb Fascism in Bosnia Rooted in Rural Areas

First the Bricks, then the Soul New Sunday Times 18 October 1992. By Rohas (A Bosnian refugee) ZAGREB: The Serbian academic dissident Bogdan Bogdanovic said: “Serbian fascism is especially dangerous because it originates in the rural areas, and feels no … Continue reading

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Court was ready to find Slobodan Milosevic Guilty of Bosnian Genocide

The trial of former Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic, would end in a guilty verdict on all 66 counts of genocide and war crimes, had he not died in prison. Slobodan Milosevic was charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the … Continue reading

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Rape is "a Weapon of War" in the Bosnian Genocide, European Inquiry

By Alan Riding 9 January 1993. Ocala Star-Banner, volume 50. No.131, year 127. p. (also published in NYT) A team of European Community investigators has estimated that 20,000 Muslim women have been raped by Bosnian Serb soldiers in recent months … Continue reading

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JERUSALEM POST: A look into Bosnian Genocide’s notorious concentration camp

  First, Bosniaks and Croats had to wear white bands on their arms By Tovah Lazaroff, JPost Correspondent in Geneva Originally published: Apr 26, 2009. Republished with Permission. JERUSALEM POST – As an inmate in the Omarska concentration camp in … Continue reading

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