Word: muslim
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Even if he finds a deal he can accept, Milosevic will have to lean on Bosnian Serbs, especially militia leaders, who view the Muslim-Croat plan as nothing more than an alliance uniting the Serbs' enemies. Rather than join a federation tied to Croatia, the Bosnian Serbs are far more likely to hold out for a republic of their own with links to Serbia -- Greater Serbia in effect, if not in name...
Some Bosnians fear that the opening of a few exit doors will advance Serb plans to partition the capital rather than reunite it. They believe the Serbs may "cleanse" their areas by allowing only Muslims to leave, and vice versa. The result could be a factional rearrangement of the multiethnic city. U.N. officials admit that this kind of hardening of the Muslim-Serb lines is a possibility. Says one: "There is nothing in the agreement about reunifying the city...
...will be difficult for anyone to uproot Serb warlords from the areas they now control or to open the way for former Muslim residents to return. The U.S. and its allies are still unwilling to use force, despite the apparent success of their ultimatum to halt the shelling of Sarajevo and their attack on four Serbian aircraft earlier this month. Moscow is pushing the Serbs, but it may not be willing to shove. "I have carrots for everybody," said Russia's Churkin last week. "I don't use sticks." At best, the Bosnians may someday get back half of their...
Tragic but simple: that was Israel's official characterization of last month's massacre of Muslim worshippers in Hebron. The killer, a Jewish settler, was portrayed as a singular lunatic acting alone. The episode, it was said, could not have been foreseen or prevented, and Israeli security forces responded properly. But after two weeks of hearings by a state commission examining the slaughter, it does not look so elementary anymore. Baruch Goldstein, the Hebron triggerman, is no longer the sole subject of suspicion, now that witnesses say a second man may have been involved. More broadly, an entire national mind...
...Tomb of the Patriarchs was an obvious tinderbox. The military governor of Hebron, Colonel Shalom Goldstein, testified that 25 "incidents of friction" between Jewish and Muslim worshippers had been recorded there in the past year. Yet security discipline was slack. On the morning of the massacre, five of the six men who were supposed to be guarding the inside of the mosque were absent. Three arrived late, which one of them acknowledged was a common occurrence...