From: de2j@poe.acc
Subject: UPI
Organization: UVa
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 12:45:55 GMT

	SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Hercegovina (UPI) -- Serbian militiamen hammered
cities in Bosnia-Hercegovina with heavy artillery and mortar fire
Thursday, killing 13 people and wounding 186 in a day of fighting that
saw nearly 1,500 shells fall on one town near the Bosnian capital,
officials and Sarajevo Radio reported.
	While Sarajevo remained quiet except for two barrages of artillery,
Sarajevo Radio reported intense fighting north and northwest of the
city. Serbian guerrillas used Yugoslav army-supplied tanks, cannons and
mortars to shell the predominantly Muslim Slav towns of Maglaj, Gradacac
and Jajce, the radio said.
	The radio said 1,500 shells struck Gradacac in a 30-hour period.
Serbian forces surrounding the town were said to be firing 155mm
howitzers and 120mm mortars into the city. Serbian tanks and multiple
rocket launchers attacked Maglaj, demolishing homes and engulfing others
in flames. City officials appealed for ``weapons and people'' to fight
the Serbians, Sarajevo Radio said.
	Serbian forces are fighting to carve a separate homeland out of
territory in the predominantly Muslim Slav republic of Bosnia-
Hercegovina. Some moderate Serbs and Croats have joined the Muslim Slavs
in trying to retain the territorial integrity of the newly independent
republic.
	Fighting was lighter in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. The city
remained relatively quiet through much of the day until Serbian militia
forces on the hills overlooking the city launched two artillery attacks.
	Hospital officials at the main Kosevo complex said they received one
person killed in fighting and treated 45 others for wounds. At least 14
other people were treated for wounds at the state hospital.
	Before the shelling, officials said 13 people had been killed and 186
wounded across Bosnia-Hercegovina in the 24-hour period that ended at 10
a.m. Thursday. Two of those died in clashes in Sarajevo and another 39
were wounded.
	U.N. officials said Thursday they were struggling to get the city's
water and electricity restored but complained that they were
encountering a ``vicious circle'' in trying to translate in to action
the repeated Serbian promises to allow them to restore service.
	The latest fighting came as victims of Wednesday ``ethnic cleansing''
operation tried to settle into new quarters after being kicked out of
their homes by Serbian militia forces in Sarajevo. About 300 people were
driven out of the Serbian-controlled region south of the Miljacka River
that runs through the center of the city.
	One of those forced to leave, a 66-year-old grandmother who asked to
be identified only as Safija B., tearfully told how the Serbs arrived
outside her apartment building in the city's Grbavica section around 8
a.m. Wednesday and began firing their guns and ordering all Muslims
inside to leave.
	After gathering a group of about 60 people from buildings in her
area, the gunmen marched them in a parade down to the foot bridge near
the Hotel Bristol and ordered them across.
	Until then, Safija said, ``We didn't know where we were going,'' and,
fearing the answer, ``nobody asked.''
	A spokesman for the U.N. Protection Force (UNPROFOR), Adnan Razek,
said UNPROFOR officials contacted Bosnian Serb leaders to ask for an
explanation but got no immediate response.
	Also Thursday, UNPROFOR's Sarajevo chief, Egyptian Brig. Gen. Hussein
Abdel Razek, made another visit to the Bosnian Serb military
headquarters in Lukavica, just south of Sarajevo, but again failed to
win any specific commitments on restoring the city's water and
electricity.
	Abdel Razek said the Serbian leaders give him verbal commitments but
when he tries to implement the agreements, he is faced only with a 
``vicious circle on water and electricity.''
	``We are trying to make a practical link between the political
eschelon commitment and the people on the ground, mostly on the Serbian
side, and we need some conviction,'' Adnan Razek said.
	The city's electricity supplies were cut nearly two weeks ago and the
water supply to most of the city has been out since Sunday night.
	Utility workers have been demanding more guarantees for their safety
before attempting to make repairs, and UNPROFOR plans to accompany the
technicians to electricity and pumping stations on Friday, Adnan Razek
said.


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