Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another plan to end the war in Bosnia, agreed on by the U.S., Russia and several European allies, is in trouble. It would have created Muslim safe havens protected by U.N. forces and U.S. air power to enforce the peace. But critics at the U.N. argued that the plan failed to authorize military force to roll back territorial gains by the Bosnian Serbs...
...Serbs. Then, after weeks of public hand-wringing over Serb gains and promises to get tough, he settled on "lift and strike": lifting the arms embargo on the Bosnian government that keeps it outgunned 10 to 1 by Serb and Croat forces, and bombing Serbian artillery that is pounding Muslim towns filled with refugees. But he did nothing to sell this plan to the Congress or the public -- he did not even publicly admit adopting it until after it was rejected -- and he dispatched Christopher with orders to "consult" the Europeans rather than securing an agreement with them in advance...
...civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina have hired nearly 20,000 foreign mercenaries since 1991 -- including some Americans. The marauding Bosnian Serbs have hired technical experts from Romania and Greece as well as fighting Russian cossacks; the Croat forces have recruited Canadian and American soldiers of fortune; and the Muslim forces have brought in mercenaries, not surprisingly, from Islamic countries -- Iran, Pakistan and Turkey...
This is the other war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. For a while, the country's Croats and Muslims appeared to have settled on a nervous truce that, though punctuated with sporadic violence, could practically qualify as peace in the Balkans. The focus was on ethnic Serbs battering ethnic Muslims. No longer. Muslim residents of Mostar, the capital of Herzegovina, are not preoccupied with Serb attempts to seize the eastern part of the once graceful city. Brutal street battles now flare as the Croats rain artillery fire on the Muslim districts, killing scores of residents and forcing thousands of others...
...West, the Croat-Muslim escalation makes a paralyzing dilemma even worse. Having rejected the notion of military intervention when there was perceived to be only one guilty party in Bosnia -- the Serbs -- the divided allies now may be even less likely...