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- <text id=94TT0150>
- <title>
- Feb. 07, 1994: Savagery in the Safe Zone
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Feb. 07, 1994 Lock 'Em Up And Throw Away The Key
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BOSNIA, Page 40
- Savagery in the Safe Zone
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- <body>
- <p>The implacable civil war allows no room for childhood, as shells
- kill six young sledders at play in Sarajevo
- </p>
- <p>By Bruce W. Nelan
- </p>
- <p> The fresh, white snow drew them outside. A group of laughing
- children, the youngest 4 and the oldest 14, trooped out of their
- Sarajevo apartment building to play. It seemed safe enough;
- the Serb artillery batteries lining the hilltops around the
- city had been quiet for several days. Besides, the children
- were inside a U.N.-declared safe zone. As the Muslim boys and
- girls shouted and rode their sled, 120-mm mortar shells landed
- with a roar. The children dropped to the ground and then, when
- more explosions followed, ran for the beckoning safety of their
- building. Inside, fearful families rushed to the windows. As
- they watched, a shell exploded just behind the running children.
- The fresh snow instantly turned red: the blast and its shower
- of metal fragments killed five youngsters outright. A sixth
- died after arriving at a hospital. Two others were badly wounded.
- In this war there are no safe zones, even for children.
- </p>
- <p> Postscript: a day later and 50 miles away, a mortar shell arced
- out of the surrounded Muslim enclave in Mostar and crashed into
- a playground in the Croat section of the city. The explosion
- killed three boys and a girl, all between 10 and 13.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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