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| June 20, 1992 | Number 2 |
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My Corner
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My friends, this is serious. As I am writing these lines, 300,000 people in
Sarajevo are dying and my home town, the ancient city of Dubrovnik is again
being bombarded. The people of Sarajevo are stuck like rats in their basements; dirty, hungry, and cold, facing unforgiving bazookas, heavy mortars, multiple rocket launchers; the merciless killing machine of Serbian aggression. A few miles away, a tiny mission of UN observers, is desperately trying to gain control of that precious track of land called the Sarajevo Airport in order to secure help. I dedicate this issue exclusively to the Sarajevo tragedy. In the next issue I will resume the regular layout.
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What's New
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Sunday: The suspense of the cease-fire expectations in Sarajevo at midnight...
Will it hold? Will the UN be able to secure the airport so that the people can
get much needed help with food and medicine. Monday: First reports are favorable. With minor problems the cease-fire went into effect. Some shelling reported in the afternoon. Last night Serb forces concentrated their attack on the old town and on the core of the city, the Bascarsija. Heavy fighting was also reported in Hrasnica, Butmir and Sokolovic. Four people were killed and twenty were wounded. There are also reports of Serbian tanks moving towards the airport....... Tuesday: Cease-fire still holding, barely. The latest UN sponsored cease- fire has crumbled as Serb forces continued to pound the city center, Stari Grad (Old Town), Dobrinja, and the Airport....... Wednesday: The Sarajevo quarters of Novi Grad and Kobilja Glava came under fierce artillery attacks yesterday. Serbian irregulars on the Trebevic moun- tain range opened anti-aircraft fire on Stari Grad. One person was wounded from sniper fire in Novo Sarajevo....... Thursday: Croatian Radio reports civilians being taken prisoners from the Do- brinja and the Airport districts. Artillery attacks by Serb forces subsided after midnight. There were at- tacks on the Stari Grad section and on the center. In the Dobrinja district two people were killed and many wounded from shelling. UNPROFOR Commander in Sarajevo, General Lewis MacKenzie, is still being detained at Lukavica military base. The Croatian Radio correspondent in Sarajevo maintains that General Lewis MacKenzie and other UNPROFOR soldiers are being held to assure that the Lukavica military base is not attacked by local defense forces. The Health Minister of the self-proclaimed Serb Republic of Bosnia & Herzegovina told reporters that peace in Sarajevo depends on the division of the city along with the division of the rest of the republic. He stated it was impossible for Muslims and Serbs to live together. He emphasized the division of Sarajevo and Bosnia was in the interest of peace not territorial conquest???...... Friday: I just got off the phone with Mira (my friend in Dobrinja). She says that the Serb bandits have entered the Airport suburb. Some people escaped to Dobrinja which is just 1/4 mile away, some were taken away, some died. She fears they are next.
Croatian Radio: The result of Serbian aggression in Bosnia-Herzegovina so far:
CNN: Airport could open by Sunday?
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The Night The City's Children Sang Zlatko Dizdarevic, "Slobodna Dalmacija" translated by D. K.
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 f anyone heard us last night, the whole night, in a place which used to be a
coffee pub, in the midst of the Sarajevo darkness and almost impossible silence,
they would say that we were either mad or the enemy. We sang the songs from our
youth, songs of Sarajevo and songs of love, remembering freedom and talking
about it. A gang of those who really are Sarajevo's rayah
(1), of those who were
the sons and daughters of Sarajevo and those who made this city what it will
forever remain, met in that improbable place at the very dusk: Ugljesa Uzelac,
the man who was everything in Sarajevo, the mayor, the first man of the Olympic
committee, president of "Bosna"
(2), a functionary and a real gentleman; a town
"moton" Mirza Delibasic
(3), a legend of the truly sports oriented Sarajevo;
Davorin Popovic, the singer of our youth, a personification of the city's rayah,
creator of "Zlatne Dunje", "Ti si u svemu naj, naj...;" Goran Milic
(4), the greatest out-of-town Sarajlija
(5), today one of the most famous owners of the city
"communes" in which domestic and foreign correspondents, politicians, actors,
city defenders, local people are eating, sleeping, and creating a new Sarajevo;
Kemal Monteno, whose songs were and remain a source from which the love for this
city is nurtured; Kemal Kursahic and Salko Hasanefendic, people who in this
occupied city, even in its occupied underground still make newspapers for
Sarajlije, and then fax them to tens of other occupied cities in B-H where they
are read in the windows of barber shops, bookstores or bakeries; Zdravko Grebo,
a man who, in addition to everything he did so far, moved into every Sarajlija's
night life by DJ-ing "Radio 99", a program simply incredibly courageous, honest
and filled to the bone with intelligence and patriotism with no unnecessary
sentimentalism.
Footnotes:
(1) A term of Turkish origin denoting common people
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To help you understand their situation I am including a map of the Sarajevo
region. Note that Sarajevo is fully surrounded by hills (some of them quite
high). That is where the enemy's heavy artillery is located thus projecting a
strong grip of control over the city. Citizens are trapped in their own city.
Just like in the times of the medieval sieges, the people of Sarajevo are facing
tragic death by starvation or annihilation. 
hen here was this fellow who got a daughter the night before and we all now
plot how we should bring her to the city from the hospital, where to find food
for her, if only for the beginning. Afterwards, we are sure, everything is going
to be OK. Then Topa came, a specialist, who laughingly recited anecdotes with a
photo reporter whose boss from Belgrade still does not believe that the "green
berets"
ooking, before the dawn, at Kemal, Davorin, and Ugljesa, hugging each other and
singing, Goran Milic sort of complained: "They did it again, prepared this ugly,
touchy scenario with which they have been after me for months ... How can I now
explain to anyone that I saw a Muslim, a Croat, and a Serb, singing together.
Nobody will believe me." 
Number 1,