Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHEN A DETERMINED RAbija Osman Oprhal recently walked across a Sarajevo bridge from the ruined Serb-held neighborhood of Grbavica, a Bosnian soldier at a sandbagged checkpoint stared in astonishment at her identity documents. Hers is a Muslim name, and for more than three years Grbavica had been an "ethnically cleansed" stronghold of Serb extremism. "How is it that you have come from over there?" he asked. Rabija, 52, fixed the man with her gray-blue eyes. "I live there," she replied...
Until Rabija and a tiny handful of other Muslims appeared out of the rubble in recent weeks, few had thought it possible that any of its once large Muslim population could have survived in Grbavica. During the long siege of Sarajevo, this modern metropolitan area had been a haunt of Serb bands like Vojislav Seselj's White Eagles and Zeljko ("Arkan") Raznatovic's Tigers, who used it as a base for snipers and mortar attacks on the government-held center. Muslims who failed to flee at the start of war in April 1992 found themselves trapped inside the enclave, facing...
Last week Serbs and Muslims were once again supposed to start living together in Grbavica. Under the Dayton peace accords, Serb-held parts of Sarajevo and its suburbs were to be turned over to Bosnia and Herzegovina's Muslim-Croat Federation. A new multiethnic police force would take over security, and Muslims would start going back home. When Grbavica was handed over on March 19, the reunification of Sarajevo was complete, and the occasion should have marked a tremendous achievement for the Dayton negotiations. The noblest dream of the agreements was to restore Sarajevo to its prewar condition...
...peace of the past three months, says Kruno, has been in many ways worse than the war. As the March 19 turnover date approached, thousands of Serbs--either fearful of Muslim reprisals or threatened by Serb hard-liners--began to flee with their belongings and anything else they could take with them. At night, firebugs and looters took over the streets, stripping apartments of everything from TV sets to parquet floors and setting fire to what remained. As in the first year of war, the Oprhal family huddled in their apartment, fearful of going out. Trucks loaded with loot prowled...
HAKEEM OLAJUWON Houston's star immigrant is cast as the "good Muslim" to Abdul-Rauf's "bad Muslim...