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...urged people to stay home to avoid retaliatory shelling by the Serbs. The few who ventured out to fetch water or buy food stared at the sky and debated the latest events. "This is the beginning of the end of the war," said Zaim Alic, 48. But his friend Vahida Fazlagic, 64, interrupted him bitterly. She was driven from her home in Grbavica, a Serb-controlled suburb of Sarajevo, by Bosnian Serb forces. "NATO has been bombing the Serb positions. So what? That doesn't hurt them, they are sitting in their bunkers. NATO should bomb Pale [the Bosnian Serb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SARAJEVO: SCARRED BY SIEGE, A CITY ALLOWS ITSELF SOME HOPE | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

Then, in a reflex that testifies to the toll that brutality has taken on this once most gracious and cosmopolitan city, Vahida apologized for her anger. "I no longer trust anyone or believe anything," she said. "I just don't have any hope left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SARAJEVO: SCARRED BY SIEGE, A CITY ALLOWS ITSELF SOME HOPE | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

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