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THE WEEK, Page 25WORLDTrying to Lift the Siege of Sarajevo
Bosnia's President calls for help as the capital becomes hell
on earth
What will it require, short of sending in the U.S. Air Force,
to halt Serbian aggression in Bosnia-Herzegovina? Clearly it will
take measures sterner than the U.N. economic sanctions imposed
three weeks ago. Defiant Serb gunners last week turned the
Bosnian capital of Sarajevo into hell on earth, killing at least
30 people and injuring hundreds more. Thousands of shells
blasted buildings and crashed into streets, terrorizing the
300,000 remaining residents, who mostly cowered in basement
shelters. Sarajevo TV broadcast what appeared to be a military
radio message from Serbian General Ratko Mladic, intercepted
less than two weeks earlier, commanding soldiers in the
overlooking hills, "Burn it all!"
In an appeal to President Bush from his bomb-battered
office, Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic called for U.S. air
strikes on the Serbian gun emplacements. "Force can be countered
only by force," Izetbegovic declared. "Let them bomb those who
are bombing us." Washington backed a U.N. Security Council
resolution authorizing peacekeeping troops to reopen Sarajevo
airport if a cease-fire is reached so that urgently needed food
can be flown in. But the Bush Administration was reluctant to
intervene directly, despite its concern that Serbian shelling
might hit a major toxic-chemical plant north of Sarajevo and
trigger an environmental disaster. Impatience with the Serbian
onslaught is growing in the U.S. Senate. Says Senator Richard
Lugar: "The time for drawing the line has come."