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Article: The road to calamity leads through Sarajevo's heights.(Serbian assault on convoy could bring United Nations into Bosnian war)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- August 7, 1995
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The coveted trail winds like a serpent over the Igman mountain: steep, muddy, potholed and exposed. The single most perilous stretch of road in Bosnia serves Sarajevo's peacekeepers, civilians and soldiers as an umbilical lifeline to the outside world. Thanks to the Igman route, there is a flicker of life left in the capital. But thanks also to Igman, the United Nations may be on the verge of backing into war with the Serbs.
After six weeks of ever fiercer Serb targeting of white-painted U.N. convoys on Igman, a coordinated Serb assault last week left two French peacekeepers dead and three seriously wounded. But when Western leaders at the recent London Conference ...