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...that helped convict Nazi offenders at Nuremberg. Most of the suspects remain safe from arrest at home, and NATO's Implementation Force in Bosnia is resolute against mission creep that might ask its soldiers to hunt them down. "Oh, we hope for justice," says Alija Dedajic, a survivor of Sarajevo, "but we do not believe...
...plane was en route to Sarajevo, Yugoslavia when it crashed due to inclement weather a few miles outside Dubrovik...
From those earliest days the Oprhals found Serb friends willing to take risks to help them. When Kruno and Rabija finally ventured out to buy food, they chose a time when a Serb acquaintance was doing duty as a guard at the Bridge of Brotherhood and Unity, leading into Sarajevo's center. He passed them through, no questions asked. "We spent our last money on cevapcici," says Kruno, referring to the spicy sausage that is a Bosnian specialty. "That," he says sadly, "was the last time I was in town...
They returned that day to their Grbavica apartment, certain that the fighting would be confined to armies and that civilians would be safe. "I could not know that there would be tanks outside my apartment firing into Sarajevo," Kruno said. By the time the realization of danger set in, it was too late: tanks, guns and barricades would seal off Sarajevo for the next 43 months. The Oprhals, trapped inside their apartment, suffered a smaller-scale version of the city's long torment...
MASSIMO CALABRESI has seen more than his share of brutality. As Central Europe bureau chief, he has spent much of the past year reporting on the vicious Bosnian war. But little in that conflict prepared him for the acts of human kindness he uncovered last week in the Sarajevo neighborhood of Grbavica. For the past three years a group of Serbs has hidden and protected a Muslim family from "ethnic cleansing" at the hands of fellow Serbs. "Despite years of isolation and hardship, the family maintained extraordinary compassion and dignity," Calabresi says. "Meeting them proved to me that small pockets...