Word: bosnian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...each other in the early years of the war, and it was only their mutual antipathy toward the Serbs that brought them together. Progress on joint Muslim-Croat institutions has been slow, and the promises to return refugees to their homes within Federation territory have gone largely unfulfilled. Many Bosnian Croats harbor hopes to unite their territory with a "Greater Croatia," and much will depend upon whether European economic inducements can encourage Croatian President Franjo Tudjman to support the success of the Federation...
America and her European allies were essential in concluding the peace, and they will remain essential in making it last. NATO has drawn up plans for committing some 60,000 of its ground troops as Bosnian peacekeepers. The force's mission will be to supervise the provisions of the ceasefire and ensure that the combatants withdraw to established lines. Without an international presence on the ground, mutual distrust would in all likelihood lead to a breakdown in the fragile accord. The NATO force guarantees each side that the peace will be upheld and has the strength to enforce it should...
...speech last night at the Harvard Law School, recently freed reporter David Rohde said his 10 days in a Bosnian Serb jail were petrifying but minor compared to the atrocities he covered...
...Bosnian Serb military held the Christian Science Monitor reporter on espionage charges from October 29 to November 7 after finding him taking pictures of an alleged grave for massacred Bosnian Muslims...
While covering the war in the former Yugoslavia, Rohde interviewed survivors who told him that the Bosnian Serbs had massacred 3,000 men from a "safe area" that they had invaded. He entered Bosnian Serb territory alone to find the mass graves described by the escapees...