Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peace is a luxury that cannot be bought, that is not available anywhere in this star-crossed country. When it appears, it is quickly unmasked as an illusion. And last week, somewhere outside the city, somebody aimed a mortar at the center of the crowded market, dropped a 120-mm round into the tube and fired. The shell slammed into a table crowded with shoppers and exploded with a concussive whump that echoed off the buildings surrounding the square. The force of the explosion twisted tables, shattered glass and ripped the canvas used to cover stalls...
...mortar shell that slammed into Sarajevo's main downtown marketplace last week was timed to kill a maximum number of people: Saturday morning, the peak shopping period. In the worst single incident since violence broke out in the former Yugoslavia, at least 66 people were killed and 200 injured. Only the day before, 10 people died in a shelling in another part of the city. After Saturday's attack, newly installed U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry reiterated President Clinton's statement that the U.S. would not "permit the strangulation of Sarajevo...
...Mortar shelling brings horror to Sarajevo shoppers...
...mortar attack, allegedly perpetrated by the Bosnian Serbs, which killed 66 civilians in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo Saturday drew much attention from the media and sparked debate among international political leaders this week...
...Mortar shells take a horrible toll on the country's children...