Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former javelin thrower, a hulking 6 ft. 3 in., fears that his life is already lost. Late one night in his two-bedroom apartment -- strewn with war booty, weapons and the ransacked belongings of the previous tenants, a displaced Muslim family -- he wrestles with the idea of peace. "All I know how to do is kill," he says. "I am not sure I am normal anymore. I can talk to people, but if someone pushes me, I will kill them ... In the beginning I was able to put my fear aside, and it was good. Then with the killings...
Before the war, Pipo and a Muslim were partners in a restaurant. He joined the Bosnian Serb army but did not begin to hate until, he says, his mother was jailed and beaten by Muslims. "When she got out she wouldn't talk about it. That's when I picked up a gun and began shooting Muslims. I hate them all." His anger and keen marksmanship drew him to a sniper unit. An officer taught Pipo a useful mental trick for his new line of work: "Don't let the faces follow...
Pipo asks a visitor if a note and some cigarettes could be taken to someone still in Sarajevo. He confides that his friend is a Muslim and a sniper on the other side. "Would you kill him if you got him in your sights?" he is asked. "Why not?" he replies...
Separate diplomatic efforts by the U.S. and Russia may signal the beginning of the end of the 23-month-old war in Bosnia. Negotiators in Washington reached a preliminary agreement to join the Muslim- and Croat-controlled areas of Bosnia in a Switzerland-like federation carved out of the 33% of Bosnia not controlled by the Serbs. The Bosnian Serbs agreed to allow relief flights to land at the besieged Muslim-held airport in Tuzla in northeastern Bosnia after Russia said it would send peacekeeping troops to monitor the flights...
Through July 3. "Pattern and Purpose: Decorative Arts of Islam." This exhibit presents a selection of the ceramics, metal-work, textiles, and other decorative media that have been created to beautify life in the Muslim world...