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Show aa A8 The Salt Lake Tribune WORLD Friday, January5, 1996 Refugees Serbs Bow to Pressure, Can’t Go Home Again Release 16 Civilians THE W N SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — The Bosnian Serbs bowed @ Continued from A-1 to have erty to U.S., restored to them European and NATO pressure Thursday and released of which they were de- 16 people their police had seized e course ofhostilities and to be compensated and jailed outside Sarajevo in a ed to them The idea is that the presence of defiant violation of the Dayton peace plan Three of the 16 said Serb gun- 60.000 NATO troops will quiet men beat themafter taking them property which cannot be the fighting and, ‘ourse ofa vear. n during the captive in Serb-held territory Dec. All 16 were abducted as they movedai Serbterritory instill confiden that they can ist one another to or from the Dayton Such optimismhas little to do with reality Peace is not onapieceofpa- per.” said Salvatore Lombardo head of the Tuzla office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. “When you bring it down to the level of the individual it gets much more complicated down to personal humiliations. sears, war wounds. That will take vears to heal. Nobody's going States appealed to Serb President home in the next few months “ethnic practice of mostly Muslim government and the otherbythe Serbs. But the abductions also underscored some confusion about the mission of the NATO-led force that has cometo Bosnia to implement the Dayton accord. The Dayton accord says the NATO-led force has “the right” to ‘prevent interference with the movement of civilian populations, refugees and displaced persons.’ But NATO officials say this does not mean they are obligated to protect any civilian who passes through territory controlled by another faction. President Clintonwill visit American troops in Bosnia next week, hoping to bring home some good news fromthe peace- have to be willingly conceded war criminals punished, hatred and revenge swept away. the rule of law instilled andtens of thousands of homes restored or rebuilt This scenario is so unlikely that it brings a scoff of derision from relief workers and government officials. While the world may view the Dayton peace agreement as the end of the war, “There were many things signed in Day- Enric MartiThe Associated Pre An elderly woman released by Bosnian Serbs arrivesin the capital of Sarajevo on Thursday. Mannion has workedin Bosnia for three years, for the U.N. com mission and now for the World Bank. He has seen Bosnian gov ernment soldiers burn the homes of fleeing Serbs, he has seen the corruption of small-town admin- istrators, he has seen 51 people ities,’ added Kevin Mannion Tuzlafield director for theInter- living in a single room, he has seen how country peoplefled war to the city and nowrefuseto return to the village Heis gaunt, tired andblunt Most refugees are never going home,” he said. “In the Tuzla region alone, wehave 260,000refu- national Management Group, the gees, 100,000 of whomwere‘eth- ton that are impossible.” said Tuzla MayorSelimBeslagic I don't see large numbers of people moving back into regions wherethey'll be ethnic minor- organization managing the World Bank’s proposed $400million re- construction fundfor Bosnia. say of this city — one held bythe the members from avillage. townor I on. Once killed or expelled their houses were burnedor taken over by members of the dominant ethnic group ‘or ref to return home in large numbers. battlefield gains will tenuous natureof peace in Bosnia and the high level of distrust that still exists between the two sides minority cleansing,” expelling ofthe Bosnian Serbs. The kidnappings, in the Serb suburbof Ilidza, highlighted the @ Clinton Plans Visit to Troops in Bosnia Most pointedly, this was a war about jeve, even though accord guarantees freedom of movement for all peopleofall factions. The releaseof the 16civilians. whoincludedSerbsand Croats as well as Muslims, marked the end for now of the most serious breach of the Dayton accord. To secure the release, the United Slobodan Milosevic, who negotiated the Dayton accord on behalf “I'd 5 to 10 percent of refugees returning to their prewar homes is realistic. nically cleansed’ from Serb-held territory. Thosepeople, like those from Srbrenica, are the real no- hopers Oneof the “no-hopers” is Dzevad Tulikovic, 36, a Muslimcafe owner from Srbrenica, who fled the Serb offensive against the enclave in July. He walked more than 60 miles through Serblines in a march in whichat least 6.000 Muslim men. including his brother, werekilled Hearrived at a school in Tuzla rejoining his wife and mother who hadfledearlier Today, his wife is nine months pregnant. They have the clothes ontheir backs, onepot anda blanket. They live in a room with 19 strangers. I have no prospects here, but only if the Bosnian army takes Srbrenica would I return.” said Tulikoviec. “Otherwise, it would belike the prey going back to the mouth of thebeast.” In Grbaviea, a Serb-held neighborhood of Sarajevo, Liliana Sandie can almost see her old homeon the Muslim side She laughs when askedif she keeping front forhi: ate of the Union address. Citing security concerns, the White Houserefusedto give the exact date orsite of Clinton’s stop, although heis expected to visit the American headquartersin Tuzla. Avisit Jan. 13 is being considered Presidential spokesman Mike McCurrysaidthetrip will occur before Clinton's State of the Union addr s, the Jan. 23 showcase of administration policy that political aides hope will lay thefirst marker for the 1996 presidential campaign ready to kill me. Finally, some look where it got me. I only want to live with Serbs Less than two miles from Mostar, in a shelled-out crater of a building, Saida and Esad Babovic live with their daughter, Dzeneta 14 They are. by Bosnianstandards. a successful refugeestory. The Muslim family fled Belica. a Serb-dominated town in southern Bosnia, when fighting broke refugee out in 1992. believes she will be able to go home. I spent more thantwo years of the war on the Muslim side and was constantly taken in for ques: tioning by police,” she said. “My neighbors thought I was aninformant for the Serbs. from They were southern Bosnia wanted my placeandI said, OK. I signed an agreement giviig him everything, He was verypolite He said. ‘I'll help you howeverI can, but you're never coming back More to the point, shesaid, she does not want to go home I tried that mutual way of life, living with other cultures. and They fled through Montenegro Serbia, HungaryandSlovenia be- fore settling in Germany, near Salzburg They worked odd jobs. They saved money andwaited. In early 1994. after the Europe. an Uniontook over Mostar’s city administration, Esad moved to the Muslim-held, eastern side of Mostar. Saida and Dzeneta followed in the spring of 1995 Esad found a_half-destroyed apartment. They walked around townlooking for window frames, scraps, pots, pans. “If you pick through buildings enough, you'll find what you need.” Saida said Today, they have two rooms in livable shape. They have a functional kitchen, glass in the windows, a woodstove fromaid agencies, a television. They sleep on couches. ‘T've gained 10 pounds since summer,” Saida said. “The shelling has stopped. I amback in my country. Thereis a kind of peace. 1 am, to some measure, content But this is a badpeace, one that Says you can never go home and you should live with that.”” SAVE 25-50% SELECTED WINTER MERCHANDISE FOR YOUR FAMILY —— 50% 2540% OFF OFF NEW REDUCTIONS! 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