Word: zagreb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like Saudi Arabia and the gulf states that have already shelled out money to Bosnian Muslim businessmen, who then procure the weapons. The smuggling routes also suggest how the newly sanctioned equipment would wend its way to Muslim fighters. Arms are shipped or flown to the Croatian capital of Zagreb, then transferred into Bosnia by lighter aircraft and trucks. But all equipment must pass through Croatia, which has extracted a sizable portion of the weapons that cross its lands. This Croatian usury is unlikely to diminish...
...between two provinces under the moribund Vance-Owen peace plan. Croats subjected Muslims to ethnic cleansing, systematic rape and cold-blooded murder, just as the Serbs to the north and east; there were reports of Muslim atrocities as well. However, late Saturday the two sides signed an agreement in Zagreb...
...itself the Serbian Liberation Front. Another claimed to represent Croatian militants. Still another called in the name of Bosnian Muslims. The possibility of a Balkan connection was made more tantalizing by the fact that a bomb was defused on Friday near the U.S. embassy in the Croatian capital of Zagreb...
Fighting continued in Bosnia, and a badly shaken young Muslim man told correspondents in Zagreb that he had survived a massacre of more than 200 Muslims by Serbs...
...push 28,000 Muslims from towns in the region, after the U.N. aided the expulsion of 7,000 Muslims into Croatia a week before. This time the U.N. has decided to ward off a mass exodus by sending in food and medicine. Said U.N.H.C.R. operations director Tony Land in Zagreb: "We can't allow ourselves to be drawn into this kind of unwitting collaboration...