Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...massacres were partly a religious conflict between the Muslim Ottomans and the Christian Armenians. Many Armenians dispute Turkish claims that the killing was motivated by wartime conditions, but was not a genocide. The issue has not been resolved...
...trouble began just before dawn. Observing the ritual for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Palestinians in the West Bank village of Nahalin last week ended their prayers at the village mosque before sunrise and prepared for another day of fasting. Suddenly about 100 rifle-toting Israeli border policemen swarmed into Nahalin to make arrests, imposing a curfew on its 3,000 residents. Shouting vulgar insults, the Israelis started searching for young Palestinians suspected of stoning the cars of Jewish settlers traveling on nearby roads. Confronted by a stone-throwing mob, the policemen opened fire, killing a 28-year...
...sound of rolling thunder and the flash of perpetual lightning. Hour after hour, petrified families huddle in basements and stairwells as booming howitzers rain shells over the city. For the 1.2 million residents of Beirut, the past month has been a living hell. Rival militias have relentlessly pounded the Muslim and Christian halves of Beirut, with shells tearing into houses, apartment buildings, schools and even hospitals. Ambulances careen through deserted streets scooping up bodies sliced by shrapnel. During early-morning lulls, men scurry out to buy increasingly scarce bread and bottled water. Then they stop at pharmacies to stock...
...understand anymore what is being fought for. The country is rent into sectarian fiefdoms ruled by quarreling Christian, Muslim and Druse warlords. The once thriving economy has all but collapsed. With nine Americans and five other foreigners still held hostage by Muslim gangs, few Westerners any longer dare set foot in the country...
...main symbol of Lebanese nationhood. But when President Amin Gemayel's six-year term expired in September, factional disputes prevented parliament from electing a successor. As his final act, Gemayel named General Michel Aoun, 53, commander of the mainly Christian Lebanese Army, to head an interim government. Muslim groups rejected Aoun and set up their own government headed by Gemayel's last Prime Minister, Selim Hoss...