Word: srebrenicas
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...when you are sitting in a foxhole outside Srebrenica, will you still believe in a place called Hope...
...been said that the choice Muslims face in eastern Bosnia is between < being transported like cattle and being slaughtered like sheep. Last week they got both. Shattering a two-week cease-fire, Serbian forces unleashed artillery attacks on refugees packed into the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica...
Ethnic Serbian crowds near the Bosnian town of Zvornik, 70 miles northeast of Sarajevo, block -- and eventually turn back -- a rescue convoy carrying the U.N. commander, General Philippe Morillon. The military procession was headed for the surrounded enclave of Srebrenica, where 15,000 Muslims await evacuation, thus far in vain. Despite a World Court ruling in Bosnia's favor against alleged aggression, and the debut slated this week of NATO warplanes to enforce what so far has been a meaningless ban on military flights above Bosnian territory, there remains scant international consensus to punish Serbia for refusing to recognize...
When word came of a possible evacuation, Merima and her brothers trekked through the snow to Srebrenica. "We slept on the street around fires for five days," she says, showing her blackened palms as proof. They managed to procure some food aid parachuted out of U.S. airplanes by rushing to the drop sites with thousands of other hungry refugees. But that soon ran out. "For the past three days we didn't eat anything. It was like we were in the forests again except we were in a town, in front of U.N. soldiers...
...first U.N. trucks finally lumbered into Srebrenica, Merima and her brothers slept close by to assure themselves a spot. Now safe in Tuzla, Merima studied a sandwich and an orange that have been plopped into her soot-stained hands by an aid worker, not quite sure whether to admire them or eat them. Her brothers puzzle over jars of British baby food. "We haven't seen such things in almost a whole year -- chocolate, oranges, real bread," says Merima. "We've been living in a different world. Before the war we wouldn't even think about bread...