Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ANYTIME IT SEEMS THAT THE MESS IN BOSNIA CANnot get any more complex, or deadly, it promptly does. Now food is being used as a weapon -- by Serbs and Croatians against Muslims, and by Muslims against themselves. And its use has started an internal feud among U.N. officials. Enraged by Serb blockades that prevented U.N. food convoys from reaching 100,000 Muslims trapped in besieged towns in eastern Bosnia, Muslim President Alija Izetbegovic stopped distribution of U.N. relief supplies to the 380,000 residents of Sarajevo -- in effect pushing them into a sympathetic hunger strike. In disgust at the intransigence...
Armenians, though, are a people whose will to survive is too strong to submit to destruction. Their land, lying on the fault line between the Christian and Muslim worlds, has been contested territory for centuries. The & Armenians survived the genocidal massacre of a million and a half of their people in 1915 by the Turks. In 1988 an earthquake killed 25,000 and left tens of thousands homeless. At about the same time, Armenia became embroiled in an undeclared war with neighboring Muslim Azerbaijan over the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. The fighting has claimed 2,500 lives...
...with its arms folded while we die of cold and hunger." Russia could probably provide more assistance, but President Yeltsin, for all his sympathy for Armenia, clearly is not about to get caught in a war in the Caucasus, especially at the risk of alienating his own country's Muslim minority...
...Petrosyan's attempts to improve relations with Turkey, still regarded by Armenians as the true historic enemy, have produced few results -- if only < because Ankara wants to avoid offending Azerbaijan, a Turkic-speaking fellow Muslim country. The U.S. has barely begun to address the complexities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, let alone Nagorno-Karabakh. Says former Foreign Minister Raffi Hovannisian, an Armenian American: "This is not the first difficult, cold winter for Armenians, but there is an unfortunate sense among the people that they have been abandoned to their fate...
...blame us for coming together to keep each other warm when you locked us out in the cold," says Ali. "We're not going to be knocking on this door forever." Ali, who is a Muslim, paraphrases the teachings of the Hon. Elijah Muhammed: "A smart person would build a house...