SERBIAN GANGS BURN ENCLAVE BEFORE TAKEOVER.Byline: Chris Hedges Christopher L. Hedges (born 18 September, 1956 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont) is a journalist and author, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and society. The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Grbavica, the final Serbian-held enclave in the Sarajevo area that will come under Muslim-Croat control, was rent by huge explosions Sunday night Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was an NBC late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists. as fires swept through the area and gangs armed with cans of gasoline dodged NATO NATO: see North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO in full North Atlantic Treaty Organization International military alliance created to defend western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion. patrols in an effort to ignite high-rise apartment blocks. There was little that the NATO-led peacekeeping forces peacekeeping force n → fuerza de pacificación peacekeeping force n → forces fpl qui assurent le maintien de la paix appeared able to do. Italian troops arrested 12 Bosnian Serb men suspected of arson in four separate incidents. A few Serbs peered from windows as the troops marched one group of nine men through the drizzle to the local Serbian police station. One young Serb among the suspects appeared to be in tears. Serbian police, angered by the NATO intervention, jeered at foreign reporters who watched. Grbavica, or what is left of it, is scheduled to come under the control of the Muslim-Croat federation Tuesday. It is the last of five Serbian-held suburban areas being transferred to the federation as part of the peace agreement reached last fall in Dayton, Ohio Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Montgomery County. As of the 2005 census estimate, the population of Dayton was 158,873. . Most of the 60,000 Serbs in these areas have fled. The detentions, the most aggressive response of the exasperated NATO troops who patrol the streets here, did not deter widespread destruction. This morning, a fire set in the warehouse used by the United Nations high commissioner for refugees Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (established December 14, 1950) protects and supports refugees at the request of a government or the United Nations and assists in their return or resettlement. sent billows of black smoke into the sky. Thirty minutes later, a huge conflagration engulfed the covered market and a local restaurant. "We need more security until Tuesday," said Morgan Morris, the head of the U.N. high commissioner for refugees office in the suburb. "Our warehouse appears to have been fired quite effectively, and we have heard rumors that our safe house may be attacked next." The high commissioner for refugees has set up a safe house, protected by Italian troops, for Serbs who want to remain, and the International Committee for the Red Cross has two mobile soup kitchens. Only a few Serbs use the safe house, with most preferring to try to protect their homes from looters. "Italian soldiers received an order to detain de·tain tr.v. de·tained, de·tain·ing, de·tains 1. To keep from proceeding; delay or retard. 2. To keep in custody or temporary confinement: people in the event there are witnesses who report arson," said a NATO spokesman, Col. Richard Pernod. "This is the only condition for detention. After that, the suspects are handed over to Serb police because this is the rule, and we have to respect the law." NATO troops rescued a few Serbs in an apartment after flames engulfed it. Firefighters from the Muslim-Croat federation have refused to enter Grbavica, even under NATO escort, since two grenades were tossed at them Friday as they tried to put out a fire. Serbian firefighters, most of whom have now left, have refused to help. |
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