Word: dubrovnik
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...watches. The first serious shooting war to erupt in the heart of Europe in 40 years elicits protests and admonitions, Security Council resolutions and embargoes, but nothing that stops the carnage. In Croatia, where a U.N. cease-fire is supposed to have ended the fighting, the historic city of Dubrovnik has just taken its most fearful artillery pounding in six months. Bosnia is terrorized. And the U.N. blue helmets head for safe ground...
...spot shelter from the conflict rather than asylum in other countries. While the message can be read as "Stay out," the plan is not entirely cynical: most displaced persons would rather stay put anyway. Fully three-quarters of a group of 2,000 refugees who fled from Dubrovnik to the Italian border province of Friuli last November crossed back into Croatia within three months...
...SHELLING OF THE 7TH CENTURY CITY OF DUBROVNIK BY the Serbian navy during Yugoslavia's fighting last year has given rise to an unusual resolution to be voted upon at the global environmental conference in Rio next month. UNESCO has a list of 358 cultural and historical structures, ranging from the Acropolis, the Pyramids and the Great Wall of China to Vatican City, the Statue of Liberty and the Taj Mahal. UNESCO seeks to make war activities "which are intended, or may be expected, to cause long-term or severe damage to the properties" a war crime under the Geneva...
...despair from a civilian population that has seen its collective lives, homes and loved ones laid waste by artillery and gunboat bombardments. The relentless barrages on Dubrovnik and Vukovar were only the most dramatic reminders of the human toll in this vengeful war between Europeans -- the worst on the Continent since 1945. No one had even begun to add up the economic and physical damage to the country. Was anybody with the power to stop the carnage listening...
...move toward a resolution of the crisis seemed to take a little of the ferocity out of the fighting. In Dubrovnik, where the guns were stilled at midweek to permit the evacuation of wounded civilians and 14 European Community monitors, a tenuous cease-fire held from one hour to the next. In Vukovar the fighting also subsided, largely because the Serbs seemed to have subdued the Croatian forces, despite reports that an organized force of holdouts had taken refuge in the sewer system. Although the army continued to pound Vukovar with rockets and artillery, a Western diplomat said, "They...