Word: muslim
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Since the accord seeks to create a multi-ethnic state from the existing warring factions, it is painfully obvious to any sane-minded individual that catastrophe awaits. The consolidation of the Muslim-Croat federation also is a precarious move. One must remember that the Muslim-Croat alliance arose not out of good will but of a common enemy. To combine such a federation with the existing Serbian republic is sheer madness...
...million people driven out of their homes will either return to them or receive compensation. The murderers and rapists who turned Bosnia and Herzegovina into a slaughterhouse are to be arrested and extradited to the Hague for trial by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Finally, the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Bosnian Serbs' Republika Srpska, though remaining largely autonomous, are to join in forming a new, federated Bosnia. U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher has said that such successful multiethnic nations as Switzerland and Belgium "are frequently created this way, indeed, in a sense, I suppose...
...peace pact is supposed to put a stop to ethnic cleansing, but the practice continued a week after the signing, when 93 ill and elderly Muslims in the Serb-held Banja Luka region were driven into Bosnian government--held territory. Last week they were joined by up to 250 more victims. These Muslims were expelled by Serbs who had earlier been ethnically cleansed from Muslim-held territory. The Serbs were resettled around Banja Luka and proceeded, as a U.N. official puts it, to "kick out their hosts." Right now Bosnian Croats are also getting in some last licks, despite...
Aside from the danger, there are practical obstacles to strengthening the Muslim army, although these are not insurmountable. While some of the training could be done inside Bosnia, for large-scale exercises the U.S. might have to invite Bosnian troops to practice on two huge U.S. bases in Germany. Just how the Bosnian military would be outfitted remains uncertain. While some Pentagon officials suggest they might be supplied with older U.S. Army gear, General John Shalikashvili, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, notes that this could cause problems. "The training is not that easy if you give them...
Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic may be holding up the release of the pilots "to cut a deal to avoid a war crimes trial. No one thinks he'll pull it off." Barnes also reports that Bosnian Serbs are busy trying to move Serb industry out of the divided Muslim capital, Sarajevo, before ceding control of the city under the Dayton accord. There, about 3,000 Serbs and other residents staged counterprotests Monday against Serb objections to the peace plan, which returns control of the city to Muslims and Croats. Alexandra Stiglmayer reports that Sarajevo's Bosnian Serbs will vote...