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<text id=93TT2340>
<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
</history>
<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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