Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most refugees, the inducement to flee is fear of imminent death. Topcagic Muharem says he is the only Muslim survivor from the village of Koritnik. On June 20, he claims, Serb militiamen herded 57 Muslim men, women and children into a basement and tossed in hand grenades, then joked that the screams of the dying sounded "just like a mosque." Ferid Omerovic, 37, is one of 9,000 from the Bosnian city of Bosanski Novi who reached a Croatian refugee camp in a U.N. convoy. "Life turned to hell two months ago," he says. "All Muslims were fired from their...
Journalists have visited some of the camps and pieced together eyewitness accounts from refugees and escapees. At the Omarska iron-mining complex in northwest Bosnia, according to a former prisoner interviewed in the New York newspaper Newsday, more than a thousand Muslim and Croat civilians were held by Serbs in metal cages stacked four high, without food or water. He said groups of 10 to 15 were removed every few days and shot; many others were beaten to death. British television footage of an open-air jail at Trnopolje showed thousands of prisoners who were dirty, dazed and emaciated...
...such behavior often do not call themselves bisexual. But the ability to respond erotically to both sexes seems to be a common human trait. Bisexuality frequently occurs among male and female adolescents in many cultures and is an entrenched though unspoken practice among men in some Latin and Muslim societies. Alfred Kinsey's classic surveys in the '40s and '50s of American middle-class sexual mores found that about 46% of the men that were interviewed and 12% of the women admitted to sexual experiences with both sexes...
...renew an agreement allowing relief workers to operate in Iraq, spurned a U.N. deal that would allow him to sell $1.6 billion in oil to finance food and humanitarian aid, and rejected a new U.N.-demarcated border with Kuwait. He has even stepped up operations against Shi'ite Muslim rebels in the south. In Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Iraq, gun, grenade and car-bomb attacks have targeted U.N. guards, one of whom was killed. Saddam blames the Kurds, but the U.N. rejects that claim and says he is responsible for protecting its personnel in any case...
...zones of Croatia. At the Croatian end, the Serbs fired a 155-mm artillery shell that slammed into a soccer stadium crowded with refugees on the Croatian side of the Sava River, killing 13 people and injuring 60. In eastern Bosnia, Gorazde was the only sizable town still in Muslim hands, and it was under Serb assault and siege, its streets reportedly littered with corpses. Fighting around the southern town of Mostar, the chief objective of a recent Croat offensive, also intensified. Sarajevo went without power or water for 48 hours after Serbs blew up power lines. Though service...