Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unchanging aspect of the seasons in war-ravaged Bosnia- Herzegovina. As Muslim authorities announced an official death toll of 14,364 for six months of war, even soccer fields, like the one pictured in Sarajevo, were being converted to graveyards. Last week the U.S. State Department revealed evidence of yet another massacre by ethnic Serb forces of some 3,000 Muslims in the city of Brcko last spring. The approaching winter could exact a far worse toll. U.N. relief officials warned that as many as 400,000 people in Bosnia could die of exposure and starvation. Said Cedric Thornberry, civilian...
There have been many tales of atrocity and murder in the chilling course of the war in Bosnia. But few stories match the horror of an alleged incident reported late last month for the first time: the massacre in August of more than 200 Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb militia at the edge of a ravine near Travnik. Like some other Balkan tales, this one is impossible to verify independently. Bosnia's Muslim authorities claim to have details, but Serb leader Radovan Karadzic says he knows nothing of a massacre. In the meantime, one escapee, Semir...
...spent two nights and two days in the river, walking but mostly swimming. I thought I was heading southeast toward Muslim-controlled Travnik. I was lost and in shock. Once I walked right into a Serb trench. They barked a question, and I said I was going to fetch water, holding up an empty canister I'd found. I just walked toward whatever the tanks were firing at, since I knew the Muslims didn't have tanks...
...formed an alliance dedicated to foiling the talks. Predictably, hard-line outfits signed on. But so did four factions of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, which as a group endorses the talks and guides the actions of the Palestinian negotiators. More surprising still was the presence of two Muslim fundamentalist organizations, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. Up to now, these groups and the secular P.L.O. factions have held one another at a stiff arm's length...
...Muslim survivor recounts a horror tale of executions...