Word: zepa
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...none of this would be necessary. At Sarajevo airport, the commanders of the rebel Serb forces and the Bosnian army signed a cease-fire agreement aimed at "a cessation of armed attacks" throughout the country on Sunday. They also agreed to demilitarize the encircled Muslim towns of Srebrenica and Zepa...
Meanwhile, the situation on the ground in Bosnia is growing increasingly worse. After a year of aggression, Serbs now control roughly 70 percent of Bosnia. They are ruthlessly shelling the capital of Sarejevo and the besieged towns of Zepa and Srebrenica, intentionally directing artillery at hospitals, churches and schools. The forces surrounding these Muslim holdouts only sporadically allow access to humanitarian aid convoys...
...people in eastern Bosnia lack food and medicine. "Everything that once came - into these towns no longer does," says Anthony Land, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Sarajevo. "That, plus a cold winter, means that people are dying." Only two convoys reached the town of Zepa; Srebrenica received its last delivery on Dec. 10. On Thursday, trucks carrying 65 metric tons of aid finally reached Gorazde after being held up at Serbian checkpoints for two days. The region of Cerska, isolated in the mountains northeast of Sarajevo, hasn't received anything...
TELEVISION PICTURES HAVE KEPT THE AGONY OF Sarajevo before the world's eyes. But in many other parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the war's victims are dying unseen. Amateur radio operators desperately broadcast news from Zepa, a small Muslim enclave in a Serb-controlled region 35 miles east of Sarajevo. Through the static, they reported that in one 24-hour period last week, 85 people, including 51 children, died from cold and hunger...
...Zepa has been cut off from the rest of the country since fighting began 10 months ago, and the ham operators say its food supplies have run out. The town's original population was 8,000, but its facilities have been overwhelmed by the arrival of 20,000 refugees, and some are now living in caves...