The Washington Post
April 30, 1993
TUZLA, Bosnia – Jasmin Sejmenovic’s mother faced a wrenching dilemma. Which of her children should she save from hell?
A month ago, U.N. trucks were evacuating women, children and old people from the besieged Muslim town of Srebrenica, but there was not enough ...
The Washington Post
April 23, 1993
TUZLA, Bosnia – Nedret Mujkanovic is a physician who specializes in medieval medical practices, though not by choice.
When Mujkanovic, 32, graduated from medical school, he planned to become the kind of surgeon who uses X-rays and lasers and complex drugs with ...
The Washington Post
April 22, 1993
TUZLA, Bosnia – Admir Mujic is a scrawny kid who can barely lift a rifle, but he has seen as much death and misery as front-line veterans.
His mother was shot by Bosnian Serb neighbors as she fed her cows. When a notorious paramilitary unit from neighboring Serbia, ...
The Washington Post
April 17, 1993
VITEZ, Bosnia – The wake-up call at the Kesim hotel and gas station came at 5:45 a.m., as loud and clear as a salvo of mortars.
In fact, it was a salvo of mortars.
The boom-whiz-bang was followed by rifle shots as the hotel guests — five foreign journalists ...
The Washington Post
April 14, 1993
SPLIT, Croatia, April 13 – Outraged U.N. officials in Bosnia abandoned their customary diplomatic tones today and bitterly denounced Monday’s Serb nationalist bombardment of the Muslim city of Srebrenica — a daylong barrage that left 56 people dead, ...
The Washington Post
April 6, 1993
BELGRADE – Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic today expressed satisfaction with the Clinton administration’s policy on the war in neighboring Bosnia, saying he believes the White House will steer clear of forceful measures against the Bosnian Serb faction ...
The Washington Post
April 5, 1993
ZENICA, Bosnia – In a crowded office, the human costs of a year of war are being toted up in nervous scrawlings on white sheets of paper.
Bosnian refugees who have been “ethnically cleansed” from their homes by Serb warriors come to the Center for ...
The Washington Post
April 4, 1993
BELGRADE – On the first day of this month, the newspaper Politika published an April Fool’s edition, or so it seemed in the capital of a country supposedly cut off from the world by U.N. sanctions.
Along with stories about a minister being jailed, a finance ...
The Washington Post
March 23, 1993
SARAJEVO – The siege of Sarajevo has been hard on tennis fans.
They can no longer play their favorite sport or watch it being played. They can’t even bang a ball against a wall. And most of them haven’t a clue about who won the U.S. Open or whether ...
The Washington Post
March 22, 1993
SARAJEVO – Sometimes, the only thing riskier than staying in Sarajevo is leaving Sarajevo, even when you’re traveling in the company of armed guards from the United Nations.
That truth was illustrated last week when three American journalists climbed aboard ...
