Word: serbians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tasted of some heavy, acrid East European woe. Beside the woman, a Serbian political journalist -- a dandy in houndstooth jacket, wearing Jean- Paul Sartre glasses -- nodded angry agreement and flicked ashes onto the fish carcass on his plate...
...standoff continued throughout the week. Serbian troops promised again to allow the convoy to proceed but each time halted it. In a radio message to his Sarajevo headquarters, Morillon termed the situation "unbearable" and said "people are dying right in front of me." On Friday, his frustration boiled over. He drove to the border and demanded an end to the stalling. He accepted Serbian terms that he travel without his escort of two Canadian armored personnel carriers and headed back to Srebrenica in his command car -- followed this time by the trucks of the relief convoy...
Before he returned Friday evening, the town had been engulfed in gunfire. Serbian troops had launched a full-scale attack, firing rockets from the south and tank guns from the north. "It appears to be the final assault on Srebrenica," said one U.N. official. The Serbs closed to within a mile of the town, then held their fire. Though residents and refugees joyously crowded around the huge white relief trucks, shouting and weeping, the shipment did not carry enough to provide for all of them. "We need to get another one in right away," said a spokesman...
Another supply caravan was already being organized. It could reach the town this week, but that may be too late. The lightly armed Bosnian-army defenders are not strong enough to withstand a determined Serbian onslaught. Said a U.N. official: "It's not a matter of whether Srebrenica will fall, but when...
...taking his stand in the snow of eastern Bosnia, Morillon turned up the world spotlight brightly enough to force Serbian leaders to reconsider. They backed down under all the attention and let the stalled supply convoy enter Srebrenica. But food and medicine will not save the town or its people from being overrun and "ethnically cleansed." Like the humanitarian efforts of the West throughout the country, Morillon's intervention provides a momentary respite but does nothing to rescue Bosnia from the fate the Serbs have decided...