Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...checkpoint along the line where Serbs and Muslims face off nine miles south of Sarajevo. The peacekeepers drew the fury of both. "In front of me were Serbs, behind me Bosnians," he recalls. "And you just knew that if they wanted to shoot, they could." Once, a mortar round landed less than 70 ft. from his vehicle. Under the rules of engagement, he could do nothing...
...increasingly open Serb violations of a heavy-weapons exclusion zone enforced by NATO around Sarajevo. The Serbs had already been shelling the Bosnian capital from inside the zone, breaking the February 1994 agreement. Last week they made the nose thumbing official by brassily pulling three artillery pieces and a mortar out of a U.N. impoundment depot, firing them at Sarajevo and ignoring a U.N.-NATO ultimatum to hand them back. That was too much even for Yasushi Akashi, the top U.N. official in Bosnia. He had vetoed several previous requests by local U.N. commanders for bombing strikes, but this time...
...deadline had passed for the Serbs to stop their shelling of Sarajevo and return heavy weapons toU.N. control. There were no casualties reported in the attack, and it did not appear to discourage the Serbs. Minutes after the ammunition dump went up in flames, Serb soldiers sent several mortar rounds into Sarajevo. After the raid, U.N. officials presented Serb leader Radovan Karadzic with another ultimatum: stop the shelling and give the weapons back by tomorrow, or face another bombing. Karadzic did not immediately respond...
...bright morning sun. A rust-brown train under mortar fire. Gray figures in panic scrambling to hide. Faces wrapped in swaths of white. A muddy ditch. And along a hillside, red crosses...
...estimated 2,000 died in Rwanda when government soldiers opened fire on a refugee camp. Some were felled by bullets and mortar fire, but many were trampled in the ensuing panic. Tens of thousands of refugees fled the camp in Kibeho toward the provincial capital of Butare. Another 600, some armed with rifles and grenades, holed up in a church and vowed to die before surrendering to government troops. The group is apparently made up ofhard-line Hutus fearing reprisalfrom the Tutsi-led government army forlast year's killing of 500,000 Rwandans, most of them Tutsis. Kibeho was home...