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...convoy carrying 175 tons of food and medicine reached the besieged Muslim quarter of Mostar in Bosnia-Herzegovina after being held up by Croats. But for three days the trucks were prevented from leaving the town by frantic Muslims, who feared a Croat attack should the convoy depart. U.S. airdrops added to the relief effort for the city's 55,000 Muslims, cut off for two months by a Croat blockade...
...does this given them exclusive rights to hold themselves up as defenders of the "sanctity of human life." We have yet to see any Winnebagos with Alabama plates bearing families of anti-abortionists past U.N. troop carriers near the besieged Bosnian town of Mostar. Yet when compared to the high-volume, state-of-the-art, blood-spattered Serbian killing machine, the unarmored Planned Parenthood is a bunch of amateurs. If these anti-abortionists truly cared about saving the largest number lives on the planet, they would have traded in their Bibles and K-Mart attire for guns and blue-helmeted...
...Bosnia and Herzegovina. For a while, the country's Croats and Muslims appeared to have settled on a nervous truce that, though punctuated with sporadic violence, could practically qualify as peace in the Balkans. The focus was on ethnic Serbs battering ethnic Muslims. No longer. Muslim residents of Mostar, the capital of Herzegovina, are not preoccupied with Serb attempts to seize the eastern part of the once graceful city. Brutal street battles now flare as the Croats rain artillery fire on the Muslim districts, killing scores of residents and forcing thousands of others to flee for their lives...
Disturbing stories have been trickling out of Mostar and its surrounding region. International aid officials reported that 1,500 Muslims were being detained under what one U.N. official called "atrocious" conditions in a former military base outside the city. Many were wearing the nightgowns and pajamas they had on when Croat troops ordered them out of their homes into the night; some reported receiving only four biscuits and a glass of water as their daily ration. An infamous Balkan strategy is being utilized once again -- with a new practitioner. "The Bosnian Croats don't want Muslims in their areas -- they...
UNHCR drivers were unable to get any aid into Sarajevo on the ground last week. Croats halted aid trucks bound for Muslim areas at roadblocks near Mostar and Tomislavgrad. Attempts to negotiate back roads, turned to mud by rain, were abandoned after one truck bearing five tons of badly needed aid slipped into a ravine...