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- <text id=93TT1035>
- <title>
- Mar. 01, 1993: Bosnian Sides Find A New Weapon:Food
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 01, 1993 You Say You Want a Revolution...
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 11
- WORLD
- Bosnian Sides Find A New Weapon: Food
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Blockades, refusals and a U.N. feud snarl the distribution of
- relief
- </p>
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- <p> Anytime it seems that the mess in Bosnia cannot get any more
- complex, or deadly, it promptly does. Now food is being used
- as a weapon--by Serbs and Croatians against Muslims, and by
- Muslims against themselves. And its use has started an internal
- feud among U.N. officials. Enraged by Serb blockades that prevented
- U.N. food convoys from reaching 100,000 Muslims trapped in besieged
- towns in eastern Bosnia, Muslim President Alija Izetbegovic
- stopped distribution of U.N. relief supplies to the 380,000
- residents of Sarajevo--in effect pushing them into a sympathetic
- hunger strike. In disgust at the intransigence on all sides,
- Sadako Ogata, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, ordered
- a stop to all U.N. relief efforts until they can be carried
- out without hindrance. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali
- promptly rebuked her and ordered shipments resumed, remarking,
- "I am supposed to direct this operation." At week's end a 10-truck
- convoy had been waved through by Serbs, but still could not
- get to besieged Gorazde over shell-cratered roads. Then Bosnian
- Serbs and Izetbegovic found separate, and rather fanciful, reasons
- to boycott a new round of peace negotiations that were supposed
- to begin Friday at U.N. headquarters in New York City, though
- U.N. officials nursed hopes they will show up this week. For
- relief from daily bloodshed, meanwhile, some Sarajevans turned
- to the first movie to open there in many months: Terminator
- 2.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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