Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then the Bosnian guns opened up. Beginning Thursday morning, Bosnian artillery, machine-gun and infantry attacks raked rebel Serb positions 10 to 12 miles north of Sarajevo, and fighting spread to the west and southwest. Inside the city, government units pressed out toward the heights on which Serb heavy artillery, mortars and armored vehicles encircle the capital. The Serbs responded by blasting government strongpoints below and lobbed shells into civilian areas, hitting a hospital...
...Russia's TV news shows in the six months since Moscow invaded the breakaway region of Chechnya that most Russians have grown complacent, believing the horrors of the Chechen war to be far removed from their daily lives. Few, in fact, paid serious attention to repeated threats by rebel leader Jokhar Dudayev to spread the conflict beyond Chechnya's borders. Then last week the Chechens finally made good on that vengeful promise. Suddenly the horrible images on TV were coming not from Chechnya but from a city in Russia itself. By week's end the entire nation was in shock...
...bloodbath. As government forces kept a tense vigil outside the hospital, stories quickly spread that to discourage rescue attempts the terrorists had mined the building and splashed gasoline on the hostages-numbering by some estimates close to 2,000. Ratcheting up the war of nerves, Shamil Basayev, a top rebel commander and leader of the operation, told journalists at a hastily improvised press conference: "It does not matter to us when we die. If necessary, we will shoot the hostages...
...were pushed to the windows as targets. Both sides agreed to a cease-fire, and 227 hostages were freed; but shooting resumed again after five hours. When a second Russian attempt to storm the hospital failed, an uneasy stalemate settled in. Chernomyrdin moved to break the deadlock by calling rebel leader Basayev directly by telephone at the hospital to discuss conditions for the release of the hostages, including a cease-fire in the Chechen war. Yeltsin meanwhile had gone to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the summit of the seven leading economic powers was being held. After meeting with Yeltsin...
...days after Russian troops captured Shatoi, the last rebel stronghold in Chechnya, scores of Chechen fighters drove into Russia and terrorized the quiet provincial town of Budyonnovsk, killing as many as 100 people and gathering some 2,000 hostages in the town's three-story hospital. The rebels' commander, Shamil Basayev, rejected an offer of safe passage and said that only a Russian pullback from the breakaway republic would save the hostages. Russian troops twice stormed the hospital on Saturday; but after both attempts had failed, the authorities resumed hard bargaining with the rebels...