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...intent of the Serbs' incessant artillery and sniper fire is to break the will of Sarajevo, but it has only swelled the residents' anger. They welcome the international effort to fly in food and medicine but are worried that the relief operation is treating the symptom of shortage, not the cause. What Sarajevans want above all else is to see the aggressor routed. "A necessary evil" is Bosnia-Herzegovinian Defense Minister Jerko Doko's blunt term for the United Nations' hard-won airlift. "I wish the airport hadn't been opened in this way, because it has actually slowed down...
Last week the sidewalk in front of Puzic's apartment building at Ise Jovanovic 21 was still stained brown with the dried blood of a neighbor mortally wounded by a sniper in broad daylight two days earlier. Shrapnel burst through the bedroom window of Puzic's 12-year-old son Damir and ripped the carpet. On the ground floor, Sandra Makcic's bedroom was gutted by a shell a month ago, minutes after she left it. Said Ramisa Trtak, 70, who moved into the building after her house in an outlying quarter was obliterated: "During the World War they aimed...
...More than 1,000 Canadian peacekeepers flying the United Nations flag rolled in through the mountains from Croatia to buttress a small U.N. force already in place. The ^ troops and armored vehicles quickly cleared and reopened the airport that had been closed for 87 days by Serbian shelling and sniper fire...
Milosevic continues to pretend that the army units in Bosnia are not doing his bidding. But he has sanctioned a purge of 40 generals that put the army even more firmly under his control. Army ordnance has relentlessly pummeled Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, and other cities. Shells and sniper fire make a target of anyone not cowering in a basement; food supplies are dwindling to a dangerous level. Jovan Divjak, head of the mainly Muslim Bosnian Territorial Defense force, called on non-Serb Sarajevans to fight "even if you have no weapons...
...There is no guidebook or rule book" on how to do it, he explains: because of the free-form nature of the fighting, "no one can stop you from going anywhere you want." It usually was possible to drive right into a battle -- and impossible to avoid shelling and sniper fire; some of his friends were in fact killed. To militiamen in a civil war, says Chris, "if you're a civilian you're down in a basement. If you're above ground you must be another combatant, and you're fair game." How can one take pictures under those...