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...always said the agreement to protect the airport from ground attack was hanging by a very fine thread. When you start taking mortar fire on the bunkers our people are living in and on the tarmac, that is a serious escalation. Before, we were able to justify putting our finger in the flame despite fighting going on close to the airport. The odd round dropping short can be rationalized, but not when the airport is being directly targeted...
Incredibly, Yugoslavia's year-old civil war got even worse last week. The shelling, rocketing and machine-gun fire raking Sarajevo intensified as desperate Bosnian forces tried to break out of the siege that the Serb militia had locked around the city. Artillery and mortar rounds hit the airport so constantly that humanitarian relief flights were suspended for three days and U.N. officials warned that they might back the aid effort with military muscle...
...unrelenting savagery produced television images that shocked the whole world: terrified babies tied to bus seats, the funeral of two toddlers killed by snipers, a sudden -- apparently intentional -- mortar attack on the mourners. Then came persistent reports of torture and starvation in detention camps and more terrible television images, this time of skeletal, bruised men behind barbed wire...
...recently independent states of Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina, both now full members of the U.N. the United Nations Secretary General and Security Council have responded with nothing but meaningless proclamations. The sparse U.N. forces in the war zone have been a laughing-stock, closing down its operations whenever mortar rounds fall too near and suffering the injury of their own soldiers without a peep...
From Bosnia come daily tales of gut-wrenching savagery, few more appalling than last week's butchery in the capital of Sarajevo. Civilians were lured from their homes by a lull in the fighting to line up for bread and ice cream, when three 82-mm mortar shells smashed into the crowd. At least 25 people were killed and an additional 100 injured. While the brutality may have startled outsiders, Sarajevans were not surprised. Just the night before, shells had slammed into a maternity hospital, killing three newborns...