Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heard on the radio last Thursday night that NATO planes had struck again somewhere on the outskirts of Sarajevo. Bato Cengic, the director of Silent Gunpowder, a film made just before the war that depicts precisely what has been and, moreover, was about to come, was listening to a foreign station and gave us the details...
...disturbing our peace." Sarajevo simply ignores these battles among strangers because they really make no difference to us. We've long got used to the idea that nothing around here -- nothing, that is, except our intimate, bare suffering -- has anything to do with us. For months now, all the NATO pilots have done above us with the blood-curdling sound of their planes' engines has been to scare away the pigeons that have gathered for an odd crumb of our meager but collective lunch...
...rate, nothing's been settled by this NATO tactic of occasionally spitting a bomb down here and there. The other day someone tallied up the damage that's been done until now: two old army trucks and a small hideout near Gorazde, a museum-quality half-track from World War II and, finally, a T- 55 tank. Three bombs, near Gorazde, didn't even explode. Before that, Karadzic's soldiers had shot down a Sea Harrier, also near Gorazde. While we aren't great tactical mathematicians here in Sarajevo, this seemed like a big price to pay for such little...
...that the whole story of genocide, of blame and aggression must be dismantled completely; then we have to be dragged out onto the battlefield as one of "the equally armed sides in the conflict," even though we might not actually have any arms, and let ourselves be attacked by NATO planes...
Serbs Attack, NATO Retaliates...