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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)

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)

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)

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)

The Washington Post
December 28, 1992

VITEZ, Bosnia – It was, as a British officer might say, a cracking good show.

During a recent patrol near the northeast Bosnian city of Tuzla, a convoy of British Warrior armored fighting vehicles was ambushed by Serb militia forces. The Serbs opened fire ...  (Read more)

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 ...  (Read more)

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 ...  (Read more)

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 ...  (Read more)

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 ...  (Read more)