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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Moral Mystery: Serbian Self-Pity | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

...Muslims faced a new and particularly cruel deathtrap -- the lure of escape. At least 12 were killed, nearly all of them women and children, in the tumult of evacuating some 4,300 civilians from the besieged town of Srebrenica by two United Nations truck convoys. Desperate to escape a Serbian blockade, loads of as 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death by Well-Intentioned Rescue | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Convert Among the Dying | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Convert Among the Dying | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Convert Among the Dying | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

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