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...many as 180 people swarmed aboard the transport vehicles designed to carry sacks of food, unwittingly crushing to death the small and weak in the process. Others died of suffocation during the eight-hour journey to Tuzla. Horrified U.N. officials, already smarting under accusations of abetting the Serb aim of ethnic cleansing by evacuating Muslims, temporarily called off further convoys. There was nothing to dissuade them from their pessimism in the rejection by the Serb nationalist parliament in Bosnia of the Vance-Owen peace plan, approved not only by other factions but, conditionally, by their own leader...
...They were alive when we passed Edrinjaca," sobbed Hanifa Hajdarovic, whose two children, Senija, 5, and Senad, a babe in arms, did not survive the harrowing, eight-hour passage through Serb lines. "But there was a jolt. I was knocked down, and my children were both crushed. We thought we would be safe if we left Srebrenica...
...rescue convoys were well meant. But twice last week as the trucks lined up in Srebrenica to take on board their pathetic cargo, survival instincts got the better of a panic-stricken populace. Desperate to escape the encircled city where 60,000 Muslims have been trapped by the Bosnian Serb offensive, they stormed the transports. At least four, probably more, died in the stampedes and harried U.N. officials, already accused of abetting the Serb aim of ethnic cleansing by evacuating Muslims, called off further convoys until new security measures could be put in place...
...trucks designed to carry sacks of food. Some admitted to bribing army commanders to get on; others fought for places, pushing aside those too weak to retaliate. A little boy who survived a fall from one of the trucks en route ran screaming alongside the roaring convoy until a Serb army major hoisted him back on board. "When you see the refugees you only have to imagine what it's like for the people inside," said Simon Mardel, a British doctor who has witnessed the hunger and disease of Srebrenica. "They are fighting for their lives...
Inside a Tuzla sports hall being used to house the evacuees, Merima Sinanovic, a small 20-year-old woman, sits quietly. Her soft blue eyes are set in a face etched with pain and grief. After Serb nationalists sacked her hometown of Vlasenica early in the war, killing her parents, she and her three young brothers roamed the forests in search of food and shelter. "We learned to survive from the old people who had lived through the Second World War," she explains. "They told us how to cook tree buds into a kind of bread. They were surprised...