Category: Washington Post

‘Don’t Cry, Darling, You’re Leaving’: U.N. Evacuates Elderly from Front-Line Sarajevo Nursing Home

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, ...  (Read more)

U.N. Cites ‘Errors’ in Killing; Inadequate Security for Bosnian Blamed

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 could provoke an escalation ...  (Read more)

Relief Supplies Won’t Prevent Bosnia Tragedy, U.N. Aide Says

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 for the U.N. High Commissioner ...  (Read more)

Help Us, or We Will All Die,’ Aged Sarajevans Beseech U.N.

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 come soon, shuffled through ...  (Read more)

Winter Begins Its Grisly Work in Sarajevo; 10 Residents of a Frigid Old-Age Home Have Died of Exposure in Past Three Days

The Washington Post
January 6, 1993

SARAJEVO – Just down the road from the United Nations headquarters here, 10 elderly Bosnians died from the cold in the past three days at a wretched nursing home that has almost no heating, few windows and more than 100 helpless oldsters waiting for their turn ...  (Read more)

Sarajevo Readers Crowd Front-Line U.S. Library; Shivering Bosnians Down a Dose of Culture

The Washington Post
January 5, 1993

SARAJEVO – Sniper fire is crackling along the frozen street and mortar rounds are exploding nearby when a passerby has a sudden urge to read a few lines of T. S. Eliot.

No problem. The American Cultural Center is close at hand, open for business a few hundered ...  (Read more)

U.N. Leader Reviled in Sarajevo; Bosnian Muslims Accuse Boutros-Ghali of Abetting Their Misery

The Washington Post
January 1, 1993

SARAJEVO, December 31 – Amid jeers, hoots and shouts of “killer,” U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali visited this shivering city today and was met by a cold blast of resentment from a besieged people who believe the United Nations has ...  (Read more)

Hostility Toward U.N. Builds in Sarajevo; Troops Said to Be Aiding ‘Serb Aggressor’

The Washington Post
December 31, 1992

SARAJEVO, December 30 – There will be a frosty reception for U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali when he visits this besieged city Thursday, and it will have nothing to do with the sub-zero temperatures.

“We do not consider him a friend of Bosnia-Herzegovina,” ...  (Read more)

U.N. Keepers of the Siege: Relief Troops Bar Escape From Sarajevo

The Washington Post
December 30, 1992

SARAJEVO – Every night, hundreds of exhausted men, women and children try to flee this besieged, freezing city on a dangerous escape route that crosses the airport tarmac. Most are stopped by well-armed troops who force them back to the ruins of Sarajevo, ...  (Read more)