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While covering the war in the former Yugoslavia, Rohde interviewed survivors who told him that the Bosnian Serbs had massacred 3,000 men from a "safe area" that they had invaded. He entered Bosnian Serb territory alone to find the mass graves described by the escapees.
He said he found two freshly dug graves with canes, crutches and civilian jackets on the surface Serb officials later said the graves were for "fierce Bosnian soldiers." "No soldier I know needs a cane," Rohde said.
He made a televised statement from jail that he saw no evidence of mass graves, but said last night that he "was lying" to protest himself.
The buses that carried 6,000 to 7,000 Bosnian men, including young boys of 14 and 15 years, had a different destination. They travelled ten or twenty miles to the nearby town of Potocari. There, away from the prying eyes of international aid workers, they were taken out into...
DIED. NANCY GRAVES, 54, sculptor; of cancer; in New York City. Graves emerged on the New York art scene in the late '60s with sculptures of a remarkably offbeat subject--camels. Ostensibly realistic, these works were decidedly abstract in their fascination with form. They presaged all that followed from Graves...