After 3 Years, War Rages On in Bosnia
Heavy fighting raged across the northern half of Bosnia on Wednesday as Sarajevans mourned the first casualty of the war, a university student killed three years ago to the day.
Soldiers from the Muslim-led government and Bosnian Serbs exchanged heavy artillery fire near the northeastern city of Tuzla, said U.N. spokesman Maj. Herve Gourmelon. Heavy shelling was reported in the hills east of the city.
The Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA also reported intensified government artillery and infantry attacks around Mt. Vlasic in central Bosnia.
Meanwhile, Sarajevans mourned the first victim of the war, killed April 5, 1992, as Serbian nationalists began their fight against Bosnia’s new independence from the Serbian-dominated Yugoslav federation.
Suada Dilberovic, a university student, was killed on a bridge that is now a no-man’s-land dividing territory of the warring factions.
Since Dilberovic’s death, more than 200,000 people have been killed or have disappeared.
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