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- <title>
- Jan. 18, 1993: From Civil War To Assassination
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 18, 1993 Fighting Back: Spouse Abuse
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- WORLD, Page 18
- From Civil War To Assassination
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- <body>
- <p>Amid peace negotiations, Bosnia's Deputy Prime Minister is
- murdered
- </p>
- <p> Humanitarian supplies from Turkey were arriving at Sarajevo's
- airport, an occasion that called for an official reception.
- Because the road from the capital is frequently under fire,
- Bosnian Deputy Prime Minister Hakija Turajlic chose to travel by
- U.N. convoy. The precaution was of no avail. En route back to
- town, the convoy was halted by 40 Serb irregular troops. After
- 90 minutes, his captors shot Turajlic, a Muslim, seven times in
- the chest and head through the open door of the U.N. armored
- car, in the presence of five French peacekeepers. He died at
- U.N. headquarters, the first high-level political figure to be
- assassinated in the former Yugoslavia's civil war.
- </p>
- <p> Turajlic's cold-blooded murder outraged fellow Muslims and
- seemed to scuttle a new Bosnian peace initiative, which opened
- earlier in the week in Geneva. Meeting under U.N. auspices, the
- republic's factional leaders listened to a plan presented by
- negotiators Cyrus Vance of the U.S. and Lord Owen of Britain
- that would divide the multiethnic state into 10 largely
- autonomous provinces. Of these, Serbs would clearly predominate
- in one and Muslims in three, with power-sharing agreements
- between Muslims and either Serbs or Croats required in five
- others. The last province would be long-besieged Sarajevo,
- slated to become a demilitarized open city. Both Bosnia's Serb
- nationalist leader Radovan Karadzic and the republic's President
- Alija Izetbegovic, a Muslim, criticized the plan but at the time
- agreed to attend a second session this week.
- </p>
- <p> The urgency of the situation was underscored by the
- mounting impact of an icy Balkan winter. No single incident so
- cruelly epitomized the plight of noncombatants as the discovery
- by U.N. refugee workers of the bodies of 12 residents of an
- unheated nursing home for the elderly in Sarajevo, all of whom
- had succumbed to the cold within two days. U.N. refugee official
- Jose-Maria Mendeluce warned that barring "drastic" progress in
- Geneva, "many people here will not survive this winter."
- </p>
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