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- <text id=93TT0967>
- <title>
- Jan. 25, 1993: How 51 Kids Died
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 25, 1993 Stand and Deliver: Bill Clinton
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- WORLD, Page 18
- How 51 Kids Died
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>In one cold night in a Bosnian village, they froze or starved
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> After the radio messages were picked up in Belgrade, the
- U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees dispatched a truck convoy
- with an 80-ton relief shipment. But there was no certainty it
- would arrive, since earlier U.N. attempts to reach the town had
- been turned back by Serbian militiamen and mines on the snowy
- mountain roads. Officials said they were negotiating with the
- Serbs for permission to enter the area. Meanwhile, in a warm and
- comfortable hotel in Geneva, Bosnia's government tentatively
- agreed with Serb and Croat forces last Tuesday to establish a
- decentralized federation of 10 provinces. The complex plan would
- allow the Serbs to retain most of the Bosnian territory they
- have seized.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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