Food Convoys for 1st Time in a Month
Food convoys reached central Bosnia for the first time in a month Wednesday as the warring sides, at least for a day, kept their promises to let relief trucks pass unhindered.
Two convoys arrived in central Bosnia, and three more reached or were approaching Muslim enclaves in eastern Bosnia. In all, they carried more than 630 tons of desperately needed food.
Relief efforts have taken on extra urgency because of the early arrival of winter and a four-week gap in deliveries to central Bosnia. Convoys there were suspended Oct. 26 after a Danish driver of an aid truck was shot to death.
Blocking of aid has been used as a weapon by all sides in the 19-month-old war, which started when Serbs rebelled against a vote by Bosnia’s Muslims and Croats to secede from Yugoslavia.
An estimated 2.7 million Bosnians are at risk from cold and starvation.
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