Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Cultures Ali S. Asani said that the decision was misguided...
...negotiators are expected to spend at least half their time defining the nature and powers of a government that will preserve Bosnia as a single country--but will be composed of two distinct pieces, a Serbian "Republika Srpska" and the already existing Muslim-Croat federation. These entities are also to be given latitude to forge links with Serbia and Croatia proper...
Finally, if nothing else scuttles the talks, there is the status of Sarajevo--considered by Holbrooke to be "the Jerusalem [the most intractable problem] of the Bosnian situation." Muslims want an undivided city to serve as the capital of both Bosnia and the Muslim-Croat federation. Serbs want to divide it into ethnic sections, possibly separated by Berlin-style walls...
Over the course of the last six months, several events occurred that made the peace talks possible. First of all, after Muslim "safe areas" had fallen to Serbs in July, President Clinton concluded that what a diplomat calls his "muddle through" policy had been a disaster. The Administration thus became more forceful about finding an answer. Then there was a crucial meeting in London that resulted in a shift of authority on the ground from the U.N. to NATO. Finally in August, the Croats launched a scorching offensive on the Serbs in the Krajina region, and the Croat-Bosnian federation...
Sala Al-Marayati, executive director of the Los Angeles-based Muslim Public Affairs Council, told Dowell: "We are shocked and disturbed by what happened. It exposes the dangers of extremism." As for the risk that Labor will lose an election to the more conservative Likud party, Al-Marayati said: "The danger was there before the assassination...