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...SARAJEVO: Human rights investigators have received a green light to begin excavating sites of suspected mass graves as early as Friday, according to United Nations officials in Sarajevo. "It's a good sign that the United Nations is serious about looking for evidence," says TIME's Massimo Calabresi. "But this is less significant than if they were to go somewhere controlled by the Serbs, who, by all accounts except their own, have committed most of the atrocities during the war." Manfred Novak, a U.N. investigator, will supervise digging at three sites near the central Bosnian town of Jajce, now controlled...
...SARAJEVO: Nikola Koljevic, vice-president of the Serb Republic, on Tuesday visited Sarajevo, the city that he had been helping bomb only four months ago. "It's certainly the first time that any of the Pale leadership has publicly traveled to government-held Sarajevo since the war began in 1992," reports TIME's Massimo Calabresi. "And though it is probably more of a grip-and-grin meeting, it's still a significant step. Koljevic is thought to be connected to Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, so there is at least a speculative link to power there." Koljevic met with Kresimir Zubak...
...SARAJEVO: Two Portuguese and one Italian NATO soldier were killed Wednesday night when an explosion rocked the compound where they were housed. Seven other allied soldiers were injured. Though early reports suggested that a terrorist attack or a land mine may have caused the explosion, NATO officials later revealed that one of the Portuguese soldiers had brought the grenade-type bomb to the barracks as a souvenir...
Having lost confidence in their leadership, the Serbs are fleeing Sarajevo at the rate of about 100 families a day. In an overt challenge to Karadzic, who wants to control their movements, they are loading cars and trucks and trekking toward Serbian territory. Some are even digging up family members' coffins and taking them along for reburial. Columns of vehicles laden with household goods rumbled across the runway of Sarajevo airport into Serbian areas of Bosnia last week...
...March 19. After talks with NATO officials, Krajisnik said that if the handover is not deferred, many Serbs will abandon the city, "and those who stay might organize armed resistance." The day before he spoke, one or more Serbs fired an antitank rocket that hit a streetcar in downtown Sarajevo, killing a 55-year-old woman. But Carl Bildt, civilian administrator of the peace accords, insists the transfer of power will go ahead...