Balkan war strikes Washington community. (Washington, D.C.)(News)

From: The Christian Century | Date: April 7, 1993 | Copyright information

In the violent nightmare that the former Yugoslavia has become, Dragan Ilic is just another faceless statistic - another possible victim of ethnic cleansing. But in the close-knit residential neighborhood around the U.S. capitol, Ilic's fate has become a tangible witness to the horror unfolding half a world away. His story is a cautionary tale for those who seek to reduce the complex religious, ethnic and political tangle in the Balkan states to a simple matter of good versus evil.

Ilic, 65, a retired banker, was forcibly taken from his apartment in Moster, ...

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