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<text id=93TT1035>
<title>
Mar. 01, 1993: Bosnian Sides Find A New Weapon:Food
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<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
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<p>Blockades, refusals and a U.N. feud snarl the distribution of
relief
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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.
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