The Washington Post
January 24, 1993
SARAJEVO – Sgt. Richard Roth is a stealth soldier.
While the Pentagon and White House have fretted about sending armed forces into Bosnia, Roth, a blunt-talking, Marlboro-smoking sergeant from Maquoketa, Iowa, slipped into Sarajevo ...
The Washington Post
January 17, 1993
ROGATICA, Bosnia – The Serb commander with a double-pump shotgun and a crooked moustache did not waste his breath when asked how many reporters could accompany a U.N. relief convoy to the trapped Muslim town of Zepa.
“None,” he barked.
Commander ...
The Washington Post
January 16, 1993
SARAJEVO – Shivering as her life went up in smoke, Elza Vukmanovic, 65, wept while she fed the pages of a book into her tiny stove. She was trying to stay warm.
Her husband, Branko, 72, was out on the apartment balcony, doing what ...
The Washington Post
January 13, 1993
SARAJEVO – Through the static of a shortwave radio, Fadil Heljic made a frantic plea from hell.
“The town is like a big cemetery,” he shouted from the Muslim-held town of Zepa, which is surrounded by Serb forces and has ...
The Washington Post
January 12, 1993
SARAJEVO – Three days after the assassination of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s deputy premier by a Serb gunman, U.N. commanders are refusing to let Bosnian government investigators question the troops who were escorting the politician ...
The Washington Post
January 11, 1993
SARAJEVO – A British relief worker, seeing an old woman sob as she was being evacuated from her freezing nursing home near Sarajevo’s front line, spoke a few magic words into her ear: “Don’t cry, darling, you’re leaving.”
Nearby, ...
The Washington Post
January 10, 1993
SARAJEVO, Jan. 9 – The United Nations commander in Bosnia admitted today that his soldiers failed to provide adequate security for a top Bosnian politician who was assassinated while under U.N. protection, and he warned that the killing ...
The Washington Post
January 9, 1993
SARAJEVO, Jan. 8 – A soldier in the Bosnian Serb army assassinated Bosnian Deputy Prime Minister Hakija Turajlic today at an illegal roadblock near the Sarajevo airport, pushing aside a French U.N. commander to gun down the Muslim politician ...
The Washington Post
January 8, 1993
SARAJEVO, Jan. 7 – The United Nations relief effort for Bosnia is failing to save people from dying and must be dramatically reinforced in besieged Sarajevo, a top U.N. relief official said today.
Jose-Maria Mendiluce, special envoy here ...
The Washington Post
January 7, 1993
SARAJEVO, Jan. 6 – At a nursing home that is becoming a tomb, the haggard face of death met the shamed face of the United Nations today.
Mustafa Dizdarovic, 82, who had seen enough of his friends die of cold to know that his time would ...
