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Under the guns, in an apartment building in downtown Sarajevo, a group of Bosnians waited out the battle. Nijaz Mutevelic, 66, was resigned. The Bosnians might not succeed, but he was glad they were trying. "The question is very simple," he said. "Is such a life worth living, or is it not better to fight?" His wife Rada and their neighbors Senada Hukovic and Ksenija Crvenkovic agreed. "Politics has not managed to tear us apart," said Crvenkovic. "And see, I'm a Croat, Rada is a Serb, and Nijaz and Senada are Muslims. That's Sarajevo...
...Muslim towns along Bosnia's eastern borders with Serbia and Montenegro, Serbian guerrillas have been waging what amounts to an "ethnic cleansing" campaign since early April. Last week the village of Turalici took its turn. "They encircled the place and cut off communications," says Nijaz Rustemovic, 36, a Muslim engineer who lives in nearby Kladanj. "They went door to door and expelled the people who hadn't already fled. Then they spilled oil all around and lit the village on fire." Other cleansings have reportedly included executions of scores of people. In Croatia, Serbian irregulars continue to expel Croats from...
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