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THE WEEK, Page 14WORLDIn the Balkans, Ceaseless Savagery
International concern rises amid shocking reports of death camps
Incredibly, Yugoslavia's year-old civil war got even worse
last week. The shelling, rocketing and machine-gun fire raking
Sarajevo intensified as desperate Bosnian forces tried to break
out of the siege that the Serb militia had locked around the
city. Artillery and mortar rounds hit the airport so constantly
that humanitarian relief flights were suspended for three days
and U.N. officials warned that they might back the aid effort
with military muscle.
The unrelenting savagery produced television images that
shocked the whole world: terrified babies tied to bus seats, the
funeral of two toddlers killed by snipers, a sudden --
apparently intentional -- mortar attack on the mourners. Then
came persistent reports of torture and starvation in detention
camps and more terrible television images, this time of
skeletal, bruised men behind barbed wire.
More than 2 million former Yugoslavs have been forced to
flee for their lives in this war. They were uprooted by the
atavistic policy of "ethnic cleansing" on conquered territory,
enforced most fiercely by the Serbs but also by Croats and
Muslims. Refugees are only a by-product in most wars. In this
one they are the calculated objective.