An average of 913 patients per month were seen, mostly for minor illnesses or injuries. During the 6-month period of the report, there were 925 admissions and 50 operations on 42 patients. Although the services provided may seem generous, one needs only to note the belligerence of the opposing forces, the hostage taking and shelling of civilians to recognize the need to have the facilities to manage large numbers of casualties at any time. Indeed, the recent taking of Canadian and other hostages has again signalled the unpleasant aspects of the war in Bosnia. They rage everywhere.
Nothing escapes their hands.
One invents tortures to gain gold, another instigates his accomplices to perform a thousand misdeeds, and all with one accord spitefully commit theft, kidnapping, murder and rape. The burning of the church St. Maria and its accompanying convent is seen in Fig. The plundering and burning of a village with its Protestant church is seen in Fig. They take them prisoner, burn their villages and even wreak havoc on their livestock. Neither fear of the law, nor sense of duty, nor tears and cries can move them.