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...into service. Their daily lives had long been framed by falling shells, and the friendly clanging of the trams sounded like a hint of peace, a bit of normality now that a NATO ultimatum had silenced the Serbian siege guns. The streetcars must have carried the same symbolism to Serb soldiers staring down from the hills around the city: last week a sniper fired into one of the jammed cars and wounded a passenger, and 12 people were killed elsewhere in the city...
From his perch overlooking Sarajevo's downtown, a Bosnian Serb sniper named Pipo watches people strolling the streets he thinks of as his. He likes to picture the streets the way they were before the cease-fire two weeks ago: fearful, deserted. "Everyone likes peace except me," he says. "I like...
Before the war, Pipo and a Muslim were partners in a restaurant. He joined the Bosnian Serb army but did not begin to hate until, he says, his mother was jailed and beaten by Muslims. "When she got out she wouldn't talk about it. That's when I picked up a gun and began shooting Muslims. I hate them all." His anger and keen marksmanship drew him to a sniper unit. An officer taught Pipo a useful mental trick for his new line of work: "Don't let the faces follow...
...Asha's place, a guy just started in, pointlessly, over his beer, "And what would you think if instead of the Russians, the Turks had come in to take over the Serb positions around Sarajevo. They're part of NATO...
With Bosnian Serb forces near Sarajevo obeying the spirit if not the letter of the NATO ultimatum, Sarajevans continued to emerge warily from their mortar- pounded hideouts into a still uneasy peace. But a new phase of sniping has reportedly started, with gunmen using silencers to avoid detection by U.N. peacekeepers...