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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 ...  (Read more)

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 he does every day — ...  (Read more)

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 had no food deliveries since ...  (Read more)

The Washington Post
January 12, 1993

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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)

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)

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 as he sat in a United ...  (Read more)

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)

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)

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)