And the destruction goes on. But in fact Serbian shelling and sniping have gone on before and since as has the Serbian blockade of Sarajevo. Fred Cuny, a disaster relief specialist, has been in Sarajevo for the International Rescue Committee for the last 10 months. Back in the United States on a brief leave, he told me that the siege is worse now than at any time since the spring. But the Serbs are shelling the sites now.
Natural gas comes through a pipeline from Hungary.
The U.N. sanctions committee allowed the gas to go to Belgrade on condition that the Serbs not interrupt the supply to Sarajevo, but they have stopped it. And gas is the only constant source of fuel for the winter. The gas situation, at least, has a simple solution. The U.N. sanctions committee should immediately cut off the supply to Belgrade, and keep it off, unless and until the Serbs let the gas flow to Sarajevo. Croatian forces in Bosnia have now added their names to the genocide list, by butchering Muslim men, women and children in the village of Stupni Do.