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AFTER MONTHS OF SURVIVING BULLETS AND HUNger, Bosnia's Muslims faced a new and particularly cruel deathtrap -- the lure of escape. At least 12 were killed, nearly all of them women and children, in the tumult of evacuating some 4,300 civilians from the besieged town of Srebrenica by two United Nations truck convoys. Desperate to escape a Serbian blockade, loads of as many as 180 people swarmed aboard the transport vehicles designed to carry sacks of food, unwittingly crushing to death the small and weak in the process. Others died of suffocation during the eight-hour journey to Tuzla...
...trucks en route ran screaming alongside the roaring convoy until a Serb army major hoisted him back on board. "When you see the refugees you only have to imagine what it's like for the people inside," said Simon Mardel, a British doctor who has witnessed the hunger and disease of Srebrenica. "They are fighting for their lives...
...meaning to a world where kids are shot going to school." The Smiths often attend Mass and also visit liberal Rabbi Allen Secher's monthly gatherings for those who don't fit into mainstream Judaism. Half humorously, some call themselves Secher's Searchers. "There's an enormous hunger," says Secher, but "I'm not seeing a lot of synagogues opening up and being creative enough to deal with that...
Last week, Harvard students completed a week-long hunger strike to show their support for the refugees as part of an inter-campus strike staged by students at colleges across the country...
Many of the Haitian refugees at Guantanamo, who are not allowed to enter the United States or return to Haiti, have been on a hunger strike since January...