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Then on June 16 came the Bosnian army's apparent bid to break the iron ring of Serb artillery that has encircled the city for more than three years. The first reports were of success, and elation overtook even those whose experience seemed to warrant it least. "Victory is ours!" exclaimed Mehmet Gluhic, a worker at Sarajevo's morgue, who tended to 28 bodies the day the offensive started and to 12 the next day. "There will be as many victims as God wishes, but we have proved that we are capable of breaking the resistance of our enemies...
...city's Kosevo hospital: "We have always lived in hope, but now I think freedom is just around the corner." Mirsad Curevac, a 31-year-old soldier, shouted, "We are winning!" On the first day of the offensive, he was a patient in the hospital when a Serb shell crashed through the room, severing the head of one patient and slicing the body of another in two. Even with his own head and hands bandaged from the blast, Curevac could not wait to rejoin his unit at the front, convinced that the Bosnian army was about to give the Serbs...
...offensive had slowed to a virtual standstill. As fighting in the mountains outside the city bogged down, the Bosnian government claimed that its objective had not, in fact, been to lift the blockade. Rather, it was announced, the operation had only a few modest goals: to cut several Serb supply routes, gain some strategic positions and keep Serb troops busy so that they would find it difficult to reinforce other units. "It's a limited-scope offensive," said Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic. "We cannot lift the siege...
...want of it more keen. Last Wednesday afternoon about 50 people were on the street in the suburb of Dobrinja. The day was sunny, and many were digging in the makeshift vegetable gardens that Sarajevans have taken to cultivating in whatever scrap of dirt they can find. Suddenly, a Serb shell lanced in, killing six people. "The Serbs always like to catch us at such moments," said Nenad Tupajic, 26, a soldier who was patrolling the Dobrinja line. "That's their way of taking revenge...
...Muslim-dominated Bosnian army launched its largest offensive in the war against secessionist Serbs, combining forces with Bosnian Croats to attack Serb troops who have besieged Sarajevo for the past 38 months. The combined Bosnian-Croat thrust advanced on three fronts; in response, the Serbs pounded the city with artillery. The fighting did not stop the wedding of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic's daughter Sonja from taking place in nearby Pale on Saturday...