Word: srebrenicas
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AFTER MONTHS OF SURVIVING BULLETS AND HUNger, Bosnia's 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...
...cattle? Or for those who escape the slaughterhouse. They arrived packed into open-topped trucks, the lucky ones crushed painfully against the cold steel sides yet able to gulp down the winter air as the convoy of refugees crawled its way from the front-line Bosnian Muslim town of Srebrenica to the relative safety of Tuzla. The unlucky ones -- five small children and two women -- died on the journey, their lives pressed out in the tight huddle of frightened humanity...
...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...
...United Nations 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...
...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...