Others huddle in the open. Sanitation is appalling, and the camp supervisor said they can meet only 2 percent of the refugees' food needs. Elderly people, refusing to talk, sit on blankets as they fix their gazes on the camp gates, seemingly hoping for help from somewhere. Aid officials say some of the elderly at Omarska have died, but nobody knows how many. U.N. and Red Cross relief agencies are trying to rush aid to Omarska, but are overwhelmed with the scale of the refugee problem throughout northwestern Bosnia.
Entire villages are on the move.
Similar refugee scenes are emerging to the south in Muslim-led government territory, where camps have been inundated by Muslims expelled from Serb territory in recent weeks. The refugees seem to be the pawns in this brutal endgame. I just felt I didn't have the right to risk her life. It's finished anyway.