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Article: Ducking reality in Sarajevo.(United Nations protection of food supplies and civilians in Bosnia-Herzegovina)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- June 19, 1995
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Karen Konig Abu Zayd runs the biggest, trickiest relief mission in history: the United Nations' effort to feed 2.7 million Bosnians in a place where the terrorization of civilians is an aim, not a byproduct, of war. In principle, she has the 22,000-troop U.N. Protection Force (UNPROFOR) and "all necessary measures" at her disposal. In practice, blue helmets and aid convoys are hostage to the Serbs--free to go not where they are needed but where they are permitted. "We are just taking the crumbs we are thrown," Abu Zayd says.
Prodded by Gen. Rupert Smith, the taciturn UNPROFOR commander, the West tried to change that last month: dabbling in airstrikes, pondering peace ...