Twenty-eight people were killed and another 154 wounded during the week ending July 17, according to Bosnian health officials. On Tuesday, snipers and shellfire killed three people and wounded at least 16 others, including five children. Resisting the lure of the outside summer sun, Sarajevan kids are stifling in dark, stuffy basement corridors shelters under pressure from parents terrified at the daily toll of killed and wounded. But I'd rather have them unhappy than dead. The child is just 7 years old.
Most people have to endure a daily death trap by lining up at exposed standpipes.
Prices have soared as Serbs block virtually all aid convoys, and attack any vehicles trying to head toward the city over Mt. Igman. Food items are three times more expensive than two months ago. It will be very difficult to sustain this population through the winter. Two French soldiers were killed by Serb forces Saturday night, one while escorting a food convoy into Sarajevo. The UN responded with plans to deploy 1,200 British troops with artillery, as well as 500 French Foreign Legion troops, around Sarajevo to beef up the UN presence there.