Word: muslim
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...aggressors and militarily unenforceable. Yet they named an envoy -- veteran diplomat Reginald Bartholomew -- to establish an American presence at the ongoing Vance-Owen talks. Clinton also promised to use American troops to enforce whatever Bosnian settlement emerges from the negotiations, hoping this pledge will strengthen the hand of the Muslim-led Bosnian government. But one skeptical U.S. official called the plan "smoke and mirrors," doubting that the Serbs will take nonmilitary threats seriously or that Washington will ever let its forces get bogged down in a Balkan quagmire. (See related story on page...
...without sensing that the conflict there has taken the matter of rape in war down into deeper, more sinister dimensions. It is not known how many rapes have been committed since the fighting began in the breakup of Yugoslavia. A European Community team of investigators calculates that 20,000 Muslim women and girls have been raped by Serbs. Other estimates run much higher. The Bosnian government claims that as many as 50,000 Muslim women have been raped. Serbs are undoubtedly committing most of the rapes at the moment; they have also seized the most land. But as Amnesty International...
...first indications began to emerge last summer, when Muslim and Croat victims described mass rapes by Serbs to the International Red Cross and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. The women -- some escaped to Croatia, some still living in Bosnia, some in concentration camps -- all told of being forcibly taken by Serb troops, often to temporary "camps" in inns, hotels, schools, town halls and even restaurants. There they would be raped by a procession of Serb soldiers, then either released or sent to one of the larger concentration camps in Bosnia. Other women have been repeatedly raped in their...
...past few months, there have been reports of Muslim and Croat soldiers committing mass rape, but the cases have been less well documented. Says a senior E.C. official: "The Red Cross, the U.N. and we know that some mass rapes have been committed by non-Serbs. The information has come from similar sources: the victims...
...refuge for Muslim terrorists? Americans were startled last week when Israel followed up the arrest of two Arab Americans in the occupied territories by suggesting that Hamas, the militant Muslim group that has been mounting armed attacks in Israel and the occupied territories, had moved its command center to the U.S. While the relationship between Washington and Jerusalem is almost never as chummy as the two governments make it out to be, they try not to point fingers and quarrel in public. But this time the diplomatic niceties slipped away in the middle of an emotional dispute about...