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...MOSTAR: More than two years after the European Union assumed control of the city of Mostar, hoping to make it a model for the reintegration of Bosnia, Muslim and Croat leaders agreed today on a plan for governing the city, in spite of anything but model relations between the city's two largest populations. The two sides negotiated an end the Croatian boycott of the June 30 local elections that gave a Muslim-led coalition a majority of the city's council. The Muslims have agreed to a Croat mayor; Croatians have agreed to lift their boycott only after...
...spent most of 1993 and the early part of 1994 killing each other, but in March 1994, Washington brokered an alliance between them. The agreement last week reinforces the federation by allowing for the return of Muslim and Croat refugees and providing for the reunification of the city of Mostar. "This is not the final peace we seek here," says Christopher. "But it is a very important first step down that road...
...resolved time and time again that the tens and tens of millions who perished shall not have died in vain. Yet, for all the pious proclamations to the contrary, Bosnia shows that we have not remembered the lessons we swore that we would never forget. In the town of Mostar, pock-marked by mortar shells, someone has scribbled on a wall a reminder and a reproach: "Don't Forget." Maybe this time...
...gentlemen's agreement with the Serbs. We promised not to show things that might embarrass them to journalists." Because they thought it might inflame local passions, unprofor also withheld from reporters a videotape made by U.N. troops showing Bosnian Croat tanks destroying the 16th century Stari Most bridge at Mostar...
Bosnian Croat separatists removed their heavy weapons from around the city of Mostar in order to meet a U.N. deadline. Shocked Muslim residents of the city's eastern quarter emerged to a neighborhood they scarcely recognized after nine months of shelling. Every single structure has been devastated -- including the once graceful arc of the 400-year-old Stari Most, or Old Bridge...