Word: serb
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...civilian casualties" after a personal review of over 100 targets struck by Allied fire since the raids began on Aug 30. Perry said the accuracy of the airstrikes in Bosnia was so good it surpassed even the performance of Allied bombers in the Persian Gulf War. "Of course Serb television is always reporting that civilians are being killed," Alexandra Stiglmayer reports from Sarajevo. "But they never give any numbers of how many were hurt. Probably a few have been hurt when their cars have been close to where a bomb fell. But if a number of civilians had been killed...
...afraid to let him play outside," said Cazim Corovic, 30. "I want to go out with him, show him a zoo and an amusement park, give him fresh fruits to eat. This has been no life for him, and I feel guilty for it." His wife Snezana is a Serb from Belgrade, and she was offered the chance to escape several times, but she did not want to abandon her husband, a Bos nian Muslim, who had to fight in the army. They decided to leave together or not at all. "I have spent the happiest years of my life...
Spurred by pressure from the Clinton Administration and yet another Bosnian Serb outrage--this time a shell that killed 39 Sarajevans and wounded 88 more--NATO decisively entered the Bosnian war. In the largest mission of the alliance's 46-year history, NATO aircraft flew more than 500 sorties over 48 hours, bombing Serb targets in several parts of the country, including Serb headquarters in Pale. The besieged residents of Sarajevo, who have long felt abandoned by the West, shouted with joy from their balconies as they listened to the bombs fall near by. The only NATO casualty: a French...
...have been shelled and shot at almost daily. Virtually all of them have lost someone they knew or loved. Only once in the past 41 months have they enjoyed a period of relative peace, and it took a massacre in the same area to bring it about. When a Serb shell killed 68 people and wounded an additional 200 in February 1994, nato established a 12.5-mile heavy-weapons-exclusion zone around the city and forced the Serbs to put their guns under U.N. control. For a few months, Sarajevans could even travel into and out of the city...
Even the swarming of NATO planes over the city the following day was not enough to convince desperate residents that rescue was at hand. The streets were empty; state radio urged people to stay home to avoid retaliatory shelling by the Serbs. The few who ventured out to fetch water or buy food stared at the sky and debated the latest events. "This is the beginning of the end of the war," said Zaim Alic, 48. But his friend Vahida Fazlagic, 64, interrupted him bitterly. She was driven from her home in Grbavica, a Serb-controlled suburb of Sarajevo...