Word: muslim
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...Serb assembly, sat a few feet away, critic after critic stepped to the podium inside the looming Hotel Bistrica to denounce their leadership. Under the Dayton agreement, four Serb-held districts and suburbs of Sarajevo, which are Karadzic's main power base, must be turned over to the Muslim and Croat government of Bosnia by March 19. The Serbs remember the Vance-Owen peace plan that was much more favorable for them but was rejected by Karadzic in 1993. "We distance ourselves daily from our political leadership," said Rajko Koprivica, head of the Sarajevo suburb of Vogosca...
...crimes issue. So far the international tribunal in The Hague has indicted 45 Serbs and seven Bosnian Croats, including once-close Milosevic allies Gen. Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic, but has been able to arrest only one person. On Sunday, Shattuck visited an area near the former Muslim enclave of Srebrenica, up to now sealed from all allied officials and reporters, where as many as 7,000 civilians may have been massacred by Bosnian Serbs. "Two thousand missing people very nearby could mean that up to 2,000 people could be buried in this mass grave," Shattuck said, after seeing...
...would the U.S. need MPRI? The Dayton accord calls for disarmament negotiations to reduce the Bosnian Serbs' military edge over the weaker Muslim-Croat Federation. While its European allies vigorously disagree, the U.S. believes that even if arms control shrinks the Bosnian Serb arsenal, the federation will require new weaponry to ensure a military balance in the region. The accord allows arms to start flowing into the region beginning in mid-March. "We will not be able to leave unless the Bosnian government is armed and prepared to defend itself," says Democratic Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware. "That...
...secret, just finished report that cost $400,000 to prepare, the Pentagon has determined the Bosnians' military needs. The study concludes that the Bosnian Serbs' advantage could be erased by giving the Muslim-Croat Federation about 50 tanks plus similar numbers of artillery and armored vehicles, say Pentagon officials familiar with the findings. The Muslims also need antitank and antimortar weapons, light arms and basics like boots and bullets. In an indication of how important MPRI's role would be, the report contends that the forces need more training than arming, especially in tactics for midsize units involving hundreds...
SARAJEVO: An expected POW exchange was put on hold when Bosnia's Muslim government balked at the last minute, delaying the planned release of more than 500 Serb prisoners of war. The move cast new doubts on the future of the Dayton peace agreement, which calls for all sides to release their prisoners by Friday. Bosnian government officals say that Serbs have not lived up to their end of the bargain by offering only to release 200 Muslim prisoners. At issue for the government are the some 24,000 Muslims unaccounted for in 3 1/2 years of Balkan war. Many...