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To: Joey Silvera
The Bihac Muslims were moderate and were cleansed by the Croats and other Muslims in August 1995:

The Velika Kladusa Refugees

A particularly interesting, yet relatively unexamined, instance of political violence concerns the refugees created as a result of the actions of a breakaway Muslim faction led by the charismatic businessman Fikret Abdic during the war in former Yugoslavia. Under the leadership of Abdic, a group of about 25,000 refugees fled their town—Velika Kladusa in the Bihac pocket—twice during the war in Bosnia. (See timeline, Appendix 1) The first exodus occurred in late 1994 when the Bosnian government army defeated Abdic’s forces. That exile ended in early 1995 when the refugees formed an army to retake their hometown from the Bosnian 5th Corps, which was deployed by the Muslim-led government. When the Bosnian Army pushed Abdic’s supporters out of Bosnia a second time in August 1995, the exiles were unable to mobilize militarily. The refugees either returned peacefully or resettled to third countries. What accounts for the different outcomes in each case?

http://web.mit.edu/cis/www/migration/pubs/rrwp/5_militarized.html

7 posted on 03/13/2005 10:04:56 PM PST by joan
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To: joan
The Abdic Muslims were not cleansed by the Croats...in fact, we gave them refuge and Tudjman granted Abdic asylum.

Once again, you get everything horribly wrong.

14 posted on 03/15/2005 8:42:05 AM PST by Diocletian
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