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- YUGOSLAVIA, Page 66The Killing Goes On
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- 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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