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Reed, born and raised in Foca, Bosnia-Herzegovina, was named Jasna Fazlic when she earned a bronze medal for Yugoslavia at the 1988 Seoul Games.
USATODAY.com - U.S. teens, ex-Yugoslav players make winning teams 2004
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This, of course, is about the situation in Bosnia during the war in a town called Foca, which is just south of Sarajevo, where women and men were herded into separate prisons.
CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Bosnian Serbs Found Guilty in Sex War Crimes - February 22, 2001 2001
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Guler is from Turkey, after all; he tapped his father, a chef from a town called Foca on the Aegean coast, to help launch the project; and he hired Ghassan Jarrouj, the former chef of the Lebanese-themed Me Jana in Arlington, to oversee Agora's kitchen.
Tom Sietsema on Agora: A restaurateur turns to Turkey for revamp 2010
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Had he turned up to our lunch, I would have asked him why he and Foca are so convinced that they know the mind of God better than those who disagree with them and that their interpretation of scripture is with absolute certainty the one and only true one.
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During her first night in Partizan Hall, a Serb-run detention camp in the nearby eastern Bosnian town of Foca, two soldiers picked her from among the 70 detainees, all women, children and elderly civilians.
A Pattern Of Rape 2008
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They hit a radar installation at Foca, telephone relays and a radar installation near the Bosnian Serb headquarters in Pale and a huge ammunition factory at Vogosca.
Make War, Make Peace 2008
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French government sources claim that Karadzic was spotted earlier in the week around the town of Foca, in a mountainous region populated by hard-line Bosnian Serb nationalists.
'The Dam Has Broken' 2008
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Gustavo González Meza, aka La Foca, one of the bus drivers accused of murdering eight victims found at the cotton field.
THE DAUGHTERS OF JUÁREZ TERESA RODRIGUEZ 2007
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One evening in mid-July, 1992, you and two other soldiers took Witness 183 from her home to the banks of the Chaotina River (ph) in Foca where the three of you raped her.
CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Bosnian Serbs Found Guilty in Sex War Crimes - February 22, 2001 2001
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Dr. Francesco Genovese of Caulonia, to whom I am indebted for much kindness and who is himself a distinguished worker in the humanitarian mission of combating malaria, has published, among other interesting pamphlets, one which deals with this village of Foca, a small place of about 200 inhabitants, surrounded by fertile orange and vine plantations near the mouth of the Alaro.
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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