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...last week President Bill Clinton decided the symbolic gesture was worth the risks and ordered U.S. C-130 transport planes to drop food and medicine to besieged towns and villages in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Before a single parcel even reached the ground, the Bosnian government in Sarajevo began plastering the city with posters of Clinton overlaid with an open hand. THANKS, BILL, read the text. THANKS, AMERICA. It was more than simple gratitude from people who still believe -- perhaps vainly -- that the U.S. will save them. "The Americans are in 100% now," said Bosnian Vice President Ejup Ganic...
...need cannot be denied. The U.N. estimates that more than 100,000 people in eastern Bosnia lack food and medicine. "Everything that once came - into these towns no longer does," says Anthony Land, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Sarajevo. "That, plus a cold winter, means that people are dying." Only two convoys reached the town of Zepa; Srebrenica received its last delivery on Dec. 10. On Thursday, trucks carrying 65 metric tons of aid finally reached Gorazde after being held up at Serbian checkpoints for two days. The region of Cerska, isolated in the mountains northeast...
...this sounds like a torturous path, it is because any policy toward the paranoiac convulsions in former Yugoslavia is bound to contain contradictions and weaknesses. In insisting on protecting their own troops in Sarajevo at all costs, Britain and France have turned these peacekeeping forces into hostages easily manipulated by the Serbs. All the humanitarian aid seems occasionally absurd when the people for whom it is destined are routinely shelled, ethnically cleansed or raped...
Most of the Balkan nationalities have a history of marrying politics with violence. It was the murder of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo by a Serbian youth that set off World War I. And according to a French expert on the Balkans, Xavier Raufer, the terrorist techniques that the Palestinians and the Lebanese made notorious in the past two decades -- bombings, kidnappings, hijackings -- were virtually invented by Balkan groups. "These guys make Abu Nidal look like Mother Teresa," he says...
...themselves. And its use has started an internal feud among U.N. officials. Enraged by Serb blockades that prevented U.N. food convoys from reaching 100,000 Muslims trapped in besieged towns in eastern Bosnia, Muslim President Alija Izetbegovic stopped distribution of U.N. relief supplies to the 380,000 residents of Sarajevo -- in effect pushing them into a sympathetic hunger strike. In disgust at the intransigence on all sides, Sadako Ogata, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, ordered a stop to all U.N. relief efforts until they can be carried out without hindrance. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali promptly rebuked...