The Washington Post
December 25, 1992
SARAJEVO, Dec. 24 – In a city shivering under a winter siege, Christmas hymns drowned out the sound of gunfire at St. Anthony’s Church today.
It was supposed to be a midnight Mass, but it was held at four in the afternoon to beat Sarajevo’s nighttime ...
The Washington Post
November 16, 1992
TRAVNIK, Bosnia – Commander Fahro Alihadzik cradled an AK-47 assault rifle in his lap and kept a sharp lookout on the cafe entrance the other day as he sipped a soft drink and explained how he maintains discipline among his Muslim troops fighting Serbs in ...
The Washington Post
November 12, 1992
TRAVNIK, Bosnia – All of a sudden, a land of sanctuary for Bosnia’s Muslims has turned into a land of fear.
Until a few weeks ago, Muslim leaders thought central Bosnia would escape Serb domination and remain a rugged haven for their threatened people. ...
The Washington Post
November 7, 1992
VITEZ, Bosnia – When British soldiers rolled into this central Bosnian town on behalf of the United Nations the other day, they asked to use an empty school as a base for their relief operations. They expected simply to be handed the keys because they were ...
The Washington Post
November 7, 1992
VITEZ, Bosnia – Where others have failed, Lt. Col. Robert Stewart believes he can succeed.
Freshly arrived in central Bosnia, Stewart and his 800-strong British military detachment are supposed to escort U.N. relief shipments for refugees and trapped civilians. ...
The Washington Post
November 3, 1992
KARLOVAC, Croatia – It started off, Ibrahim recalled, as the usual nighttime brutality, but it ended up as a beating to end all beatings.
Ibrahim, a Slavic Muslim who was freed after being held for two months at a Bosnian Serb prison camp, took a short, nervous ...
The Washington Post
November 2, 1992
TRAVNIK, Bosnia – It was on the home stretch to safety that the wrath of Serb gunners caught up with housewife Nijaza Dizdar.
After a harrowing 35-mile journey from the Serb-captured city of Jajce, Dizdar and her Muslim family were almost outside the range ...
The Washington Post
November 1, 1992
KARAULA, Bosnia – In an epic scene reminiscent of World War II, more than 30,000 Muslims and Croats are streaming out of the fallen city of Jajce. Some are leaving in cars, but most are walking or riding in wooden hay wagons, forming a column of destitution ...
The Washington Post
October 31, 1992
TRAVNIK, Bosnia, Oct. 30 – Limping and bleeding, thousands of Muslims and Croats arrived here today after dodging Serb artillery fire as they fled on foot from a fallen city that they say is burning behind them.
The first escapees from Jajce, a former Bosnian ...
The Washington Post
October 29, 1992
MOSTAR, Bosnia – The Bosnian government’s Muslim troops in this city are being held quasi-captive — not by their declared enemies, the Serbs, but by their erstwhile allies, the Croat militia.
Croat forces last week effectively imposed martial law ...
