Word: muslim
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...Murderers!" "Go back to Serbia!" One of the worst incidents occurred in Sisak, where Croats began pulling people out of their vehicles and beating them; a woman later died from her injuries. In one of this war's strangest twists, more than 30,000 followers of Fikret Abdic, a Muslim who aligned himself with the Croatian and Bosnian Serbs, found themselves camped near the Croatian border, unwelcome anywhere despite an agreement between Abdic and the Bosnian government. "Do you think any country would take us?" Ibrahim Djedovic, once Abdic's chief of security, asked desperately. "Perhaps Singapore...
...weeks Tudjman's generals had been massing troops around Krajina, threatening to retake the breakaway province unless the Serbs agreed to rejoin Croatia. Then three weeks ago the Bosnian Serbs began attacking Bihac, a pocket bordering Krajina and controlled by the Muslim-dominated Bosnian government. The Croats helped the Bosnian Muslims and took two towns in Bosnia controlled by the Serbs. Following that action, the Croats seemed to gear up for a full-scale offensive. There was a brief moment of hope when the U.S. ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbraith, announced concessions by the Serbs. The U.S. had been trying...
Just days after the Croatian army broke the seige ofthe Bihac safe area, Serb forces appear ready to strike back. From Bihac, TIME's Edward Barnes reports that a massive combined force of Krajina and Bosnian Serbs is approaching the town from the south. Croat and Bosnian Muslim army officials expect a major battle for the area within the next few days...
Clinton administration officials say they have U.S. spy plane photo evidence of what could be a mass grave near Srebrenica. Some 10,000 Muslim men have been missing sinceSerbs swept through the region since last month. The photo may serve to confirm an earlier account by eyewitnesses from the eastern enclaves who claimed to have escaped from a warehouse where Serbs took refugees outside in large groups to be shot at the edge of mass graves. Assistant Secretary of State John Shattuck said today a fact-finding trip to central and northeastern Bosnia last week turned up numerous eyewitness accounts...
Like most Western citizens, I have received daily updates for the past few years on the progress of the genocide perpetrated against Muslim in Bosnia. Jennings, Rather and Brokaw have all been yelling about the killings, rapes and refugees. Current and former presidents have now gone on CNN, babbling about quagmire, to explain why the U.S. has complied with global inaction. The United Nations, MacNeil and Lehrer's favorite organization, became an accomplice to the destruction of one of its own members nations. I have had to watch all of this...