Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about the more muscular approach to Bosnia, defends his embattled boss. He points out that every bit of progress in that country has come from U.S. initiative: the NATO resolution last August against Sarajevo's strangulation, the no-fly zone, the air drops, the Sarajevo exclusion zone, the Croat-Muslim agreement and the new ultimatums. Says he: "It's unbelievable to me that we can make progress that no one would have predicted two months ago, through a lot of hard work by the President. Then you get Gorazde, which was a setback, and the critics start saying again, 'Clinton...
...favor using military planes to protect Gorazde and other Muslim towns, as we have in Sarjevo...
Terrified Muslim residents of the eastern Bosnian city of Gorazde, declared a "safe area" by the United Nations last May, huddled under nearly continuous attack by Bosnian Serb forces for the third straight week. At week's end NATO allies issued a strongly worded new ultimatum to Serb gunners, giving them until 2:01 a.m. local time Sunday to withdraw their forces 1.9 miles from the town center and allow U.N. peacekeepers into the besieged city. The threatened big stick: allied bombing on a far greater scale than before...
Perhaps Conley is unaware that hospitals and humanitarian relief centers in this Muslim community have been systematically destroyed and that impartial observers refer to Gorazde as a slaughterhouse. Maybe in a future strip, he will ridicule victims of the current massacre in Kigali, Rwanda, where the death toll now stands at a staggering...
...each day passed, the designation of Gorazde as a U.N.-sanctioned "safe area" seemed increasingly like a cruel joke. Two rounds of NATO air strikes early in the week had done little to ease the Serbs' tightening vise around the besieged Muslim enclave on the Drina River. By Friday, Serb forces had moved artillery and armored vehicles into the surrounding hills and pounded away at the city of 65,000 civilians with howitzers, mortars and tank cannons. On Saturday afternoon, as Bosnian radio reported fretfully that tanks were rolling through Gorazde and firing into residential areas, NATO dispatched six planes...