Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Europeans, who on Monday rejected Clinton's plan to arm Bosnia's Muslim-dominated government, have been reluctant to act in the face of what they perceive as U.S. indecisiveness...
...ground in Bosnia is growing increasingly worse. After a year of aggression, Serbs now control roughly 70 percent of Bosnia. They are ruthlessly shelling the capital of Sarejevo and the besieged towns of Zepa and Srebrenica, intentionally directing artillery at hospitals, churches and schools. The forces surrounding these Muslim holdouts only sporadically allow access to humanitarian aid convoys...
Action seemed imperative. The Bosnian Serbs had turned down the Vance-Owen peace plan and laid siege to a new brace of Muslim towns. Boris Yeltsin, his referendum victory safe, announced he would no longer shield the Serbs indiscriminately from "the will of the world." Former Secretary of State George Shultz, among others, counseled military force. People compared the Serbian aggression to the Holocaust, thus suggesting that intervention was a moral necessity. Meanwhile, Clinton consulted. Dozens of members of Congress, eyeing polls that said only 30% of the public supported air strikes, rejected the Holocaust comparison...
After more than two weeks of highly public debate and his own repeated promises to get tough, the President narrowed the possibilities to a two-step strategy. It centered on an effort to exempt the Muslim-dominated Bosnian government from the U.N. arms embargo, which requires Security Council approval, combined with limited air strikes in the interim, if necessary, to protect the Bosnian forces while they await arms, and to prod the Serbs toward serious negotiations. Along with stepped-up sanctions on Serbia, Washington hoped, a credible threat of force would obviate the need...
...THINGS BOSNIA NEEDED, A SECOND THEater of war was perhaps the last. But in central Bosnia, Croats and Muslims began fighting along what was supposed to be the boundary line between two provinces under the moribund Vance-Owen peace plan. Croats subjected Muslims to ethnic cleansing, systematic rape and cold-blooded murder, just as the Serbs to the north and east; there were reports of Muslim atrocities as well. However, late Saturday the two sides signed an agreement in Zagreb...