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...VOGOSCA, BOSNIA: The Bosnian Muslim-Croat Federation was supposed to have a day of reconciliation with Serbs on Friday as it took over the administration of the Serb-held Vogosca suburb of Sarajevo. Instead, officials took over the administration of a nearly empty town. Most of the 24,000 Bosnian Serbs who inhabited Vogosca had already fled for Serb territory, and the Muslim-Croat police made their way to the city hall down quiet, deserted streets. When they got there, they may have confirmed fears the few remaining Serbs had about the transfer of power. The new bosses raised...
...Serbs leaving Sarajevo threatened today to become a torrent. Bosnian Serb authorities are violating the spirit of the Dayton peace accords, advising and in some cases coercing the city's 50,000 ethnic Serbs to leave Sarajevo before the Croat-Muslim federation takes over the administration of the Vogosca district of Sarajevo on Friday. Heavy snow is still hampering the efforts of the city's Serbs to leave, but a steady flow of vehicles is leaving the city, and many families are packing their possessions. Some moderate Sarejevan Serb leaders who tried to persuade their followers to remain have been...
...Muslim and Croat government of Bosnia by March 19. The Serbs remember the Vance-Owen peace plan that was much more favorable for them but was rejected by Karadzic in 1993. "We distance ourselves daily from our political leadership," said Rajko Koprivica, head of the Sarajevo suburb of Vogosca...
...VOGOSCA, BOSNIA: NATO troops fired the first hostile gunfire of the Bosnia peacekeeping mission Friday as they defended a wounded Italian military engineer. Corporal Elio Sbordoni was shot in the arm by an unknown sniper who fired on a hotel complex housing Italian soldiers in Vogosca, a Serb-held suburb of Sarajevo. The gunman escaped. NATO officials, who define a 'firing incident' as five or more shots fired in succession, are counting roughly 400 such incidents per day in Sarajevo...
...assigned to protect U.N. convoys and peacekeepers, joined the attack. nato planes also struck Bosnian Serb targets near Gorazde and Tuzla, two other U.N. "safe areas." The warplanes focused first on the Bosnian Serbs' sophisticated air-defense network. Then they turned to ammunition depots and factories in Lukavica and Vogosca, surface-to-air missile sites throughout Bosnia, and the Bosnian Serb artillery sites ringing Sarajevo...