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 ...
The Washington Post
March 13, 1993
SARAJEVO – An embodiment of the banality of evil shuffled into a Sarajevo courtroom today, wearing a beaten pair of black shoes without laces.
Borislav Herak, self-confessed war criminal, looked like a defeated man on the first day of his trial for mass murder ...
The Washington Post
March 12, 1993
SARAJEVO, March 11 – It might be hard to consider a man shot by a sniper as lucky, but that is precisely what Haris Bahtanovic is. Lucky.
Bahtanovic, 22, was walking behind Sarajevo’s Holiday Inn Wednesday, on his way to visit a friend, when he heard the crack ...
The Washington Post
March 12, 1993
SARAJEVO – Lawyer Branko Martic isn’t sure his client is innocent, but he hopes so.
“I have a hard time accepting that the crimes charged against my client can be committed,” Martic said. “I won’t feel pleasant if it is proved that ...
The Washington Post
March 11, 1993
SARAJEVO, March 10 – It was only a matter of time until the sniper got somebody.
It was perfect shooting weather today. No clouds, fog or falling snow to obscure a sniper’s view. Just blue skies and bright sunshine. It’s the kind of promising weather that ...
The Washington Post
March 10, 1993
SARAJEVO – It was midday, and Munira was at the doorstep of Kosevo Hospital’s diagnostic building. She was an architect, and her job was to assess shell damage at the medical complex and supervise repair work.
Midday is the time when the hospital is busiest. ...
The Washington Post
March 8, 1993
SARAJEVO – Himzo Devedzija makes people laugh and cry by fiddling with dials all day long.
Devedzija is a shortwave radio operator. In ordinary times, he would be seen by many as a classic nerd — a pudgy, balding guy with a gap between his front teeth who ...
