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WHEN A DETERMINED RAbija Osman Oprhal recently walked across a Sarajevo bridge from the ruined Serb-held neighborhood of Grbavica, a Bosnian soldier at a sandbagged checkpoint stared in astonishment at her identity documents. Hers is a Muslim name, and for more than three years Grbavica had been an "ethnically cleansed" stronghold of Serb extremism. "How is it that you have come from over there?" he asked. Rabija, 52, fixed the man with her gray-blue eyes. "I live there," she replied...
Until Rabija and a tiny handful of other Muslims appeared out of the rubble in recent weeks, few had thought it possible that any of its once large Muslim population could have survived in Grbavica. During the long siege of Sarajevo, this modern metropolitan area had been a haunt of Serb bands like Vojislav Seselj's White Eagles and Zeljko ("Arkan") Raznatovic's Tigers, who used it as a base for snipers and mortar attacks on the government-held center. Muslims who failed to flee at the start of war in April 1992 found themselves trapped inside the enclave, facing...
Last week Serbs and Muslims were once again supposed to start living together in Grbavica. Under the Dayton peace accords, Serb-held parts of Sarajevo and its suburbs were to be turned over to Bosnia and Herzegovina's Muslim-Croat Federation. A new multiethnic police force would take over security, and Muslims would start going back home. When Grbavica was handed over on March 19, the reunification of Sarajevo was complete, and the occasion should have marked a tremendous achievement for the Dayton negotiations. The noblest dream of the agreements was to restore Sarajevo to its prewar condition...
...anywhere, we had money for it. We would go skiing or on picnics every weekend." Kruno, who served as a director of technology at Energoinvest, says he turned down offers of high-paying jobs in Libya and Iraq because he and his family could not consider leaving their beloved Sarajevo. "We are Europeans," says Rabija. "Who would want to live where you have to keep your face covered?" Kruno called his wife a Sarajevo patriot. "When we would go to the coast for vacations, we would stay only three or four days, and then it was back...
...troops on the front lines of the Bosnia peacekeeping mission in the first visit by a first lady to a potentially hostile area since Eleanor Roosevelt. Mrs. Clinton also met with members of the Federation Constitutional Court, where she was told about the death wrought by the civil war. "Sarajevo is the largest graveyard in the world," Katarina Mandic told the first lady. "On every corner we find dead bodies. Dead animals. We found blood and destruction everywhere." Mrs. Clinton is on an eight-day goodwill trip through Europe with her daughter Chelsea. The first lady delivered mail and gifts...