Word: muslim
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...about it? The U.N. Security Council has deplored "grave breaches of international humanitarian law" in Bosnia and Herzegovina time and again. Eagleburger took it a step further, warning the criminals of "a second Nuremberg" and linking specific men to the crimes: four Serbs, two Croats and a Muslim. He also named three political leaders, including Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, as bearing special responsibility. Yet there are no signs that any of this is more than the rhetoric of outrage. Two of the men Eagleburger fingered are to fly to Geneva this month at U.N. expense to talk peace with Bosnian...
Adem Delic, Muslim commander of a Croat-run camp where at least 15 Serbs were reportedly beaten to death in August...
...Palestinians living in the occupied territories, deportations of their brethren evoke fears that one day the Israelis will expel them all from their homes. So it was on Friday, when Israeli authorities deported to Lebanon more than 400 alleged activists from the Muslim fundamentalist movements Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The expulsions were in retaliation for the shooting of four Israeli soldiers and the Hamas' kidnap-murder of a border policeman. In the Gaza Strip, at weekend demonstrations to protest the expulsions, six Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli troops...
...CHARGES, ESSENTIALLY OF MASS MURDER OF civilians, have become as repetitious as they are ghastly, until U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger managed to strip away the familiarity and make the accusations arresting again. He named seven Serbs, two Croats and one Muslim allegedly responsible for such atrocities in Bosnia and Croatia; the accused ranged from the very obscure (concentration-camp commander Drago Prcac) to the globally notorious (Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic). All, said Eagleburger, should be hauled before an international court of justice -- a "second Nuremberg" -- and tried for war crimes...
Hindu nationalists have been fighting over the 16th century mosque since 1855. In recent years, the cause was taken up by the Bharatiya Janata Party, which has used anti-Muslim feelings to advance its political fortunes. By attacking the supposed privileges of the Muslim community and taking up the struggle over the mosque, the party won 88 seats in the lower house of Parliament...