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<text id=92TT0866>
<title>
Apr. 20, 1992: Yugoslavia:The Killing Goes On
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Apr. 20, 1992 Why Voters Don't Trust Clinton
</history>
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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YUGOSLAVIA, Page 66
The Killing Goes On
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<p> The ethnic vendettas in Yugoslavia's splintering republics
are sowing more death, this time in newly independent,
Muslim-dominated Bosnia-Herzegovina. In the small town of
Bijeljina, where Serbs and Muslims have lived side by side for
centuries, independence has bloodied the community, as irregular
militias fight to remain linked with neighboring Serbia. After
a Muslim grenade exploded in a Serb-owned cafe last week,
killing several customers, heavily armed Serbian commandos
slaughtered civilian Muslims and took over the town, invading
the local mosque and tearing down the Islamic flag. In Bosnia's
current state of lawlessness, guerrillas enter at will from
Serbia and annex border towns. Sniper bullets and artillery
shells whistle through the streets, catching innocent bystanders
in the crossfire. In the week since independence was recognized,
more than 100 have died, and the Serbian-dominated Yugoslav army
has refused to intervene. Because of the close intermingling of
Bosnia's Muslims, Serbs and Croats, some fear the casualties
could eventually dwarf the toll in Croatia, where ethnic
violence has taken more than 10,000 lives since last summer.
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