The Washington Post
December 27, 1992
ZENICA, Bosnia – Two weeks ago, a 22-year-old woman made her way to the gynecology ward at the main hospital here and asked doctors for an abortion. The woman, from the eastern Bosnian town of Foca, said she had been repeatedly raped by Serb soldiers and ...
The Washington Post
December 27, 1992
ZENICA, Bosnia – Before the local Serb warlord took Muniba away from her apartment to rape her on June 9, he told her not to cry. Muniba, a Muslim schoolgirl, would be safe with him.
Then, Muniba, 17, said in a lengthy interview here, the Serb ordered her, her ...
The Washington Post
December 26, 1992
SARAJEVO, December 25 – Karlo and Janja Pelzl went to Christmas Mass this morning, but they went to separate churches. It had nothing to do with religious differences or a marital spat.
The Pelzls were afraid that if they went to the same church and it was ...
The Washington Post
December 26, 1992
SARAJEVO, Dec. 25 – The commander of U.N. relief forces in Bosnia, in a glum Christmas discussion of prospects for peace in this war-torn republic, said today that his quarters were shelled twice in the past 24 hours and that only a “miracle” had ...
The Washington Post
December 25, 1992
SARAJEVO, Dec. 24 – In a city shivering under a winter siege, Christmas hymns drowned out the sound of gunfire at St. Anthony’s Church today.
It was supposed to be a midnight Mass, but it was held at four in the afternoon to beat Sarajevo’s nighttime ...
The Washington Post
November 16, 1992
TRAVNIK, Bosnia – Commander Fahro Alihadzik cradled an AK-47 assault rifle in his lap and kept a sharp lookout on the cafe entrance the other day as he sipped a soft drink and explained how he maintains discipline among his Muslim troops fighting Serbs in ...
The Washington Post
November 12, 1992
TRAVNIK, Bosnia – All of a sudden, a land of sanctuary for Bosnia’s Muslims has turned into a land of fear.
Until a few weeks ago, Muslim leaders thought central Bosnia would escape Serb domination and remain a rugged haven for their threatened people. ...
The Washington Post
November 7, 1992
VITEZ, Bosnia – When British soldiers rolled into this central Bosnian town on behalf of the United Nations the other day, they asked to use an empty school as a base for their relief operations. They expected simply to be handed the keys because they were ...
The Washington Post
November 7, 1992
VITEZ, Bosnia – Where others have failed, Lt. Col. Robert Stewart believes he can succeed.
Freshly arrived in central Bosnia, Stewart and his 800-strong British military detachment are supposed to escort U.N. relief shipments for refugees and trapped civilians. ...
The Washington Post
November 3, 1992
KARLOVAC, Croatia – It started off, Ibrahim recalled, as the usual nighttime brutality, but it ended up as a beating to end all beatings.
Ibrahim, a Slavic Muslim who was freed after being held for two months at a Bosnian Serb prison camp, took a short, nervous ...
