Mostar revels in an imperfect peace

The Independent - London | April 9, 1994| | Copyright

"I'M FLYING two kilometres high. It's not perfect - still no water, still no electricity, but it's peace. Yesterday we had a meeting with our friends from the other side."

I had met Selma, a secretary at the Free Mostar radio station two months ago, when the Muslim ghetto of east Mostar was under regular murderous mortar and sniper fire, and people scurried from cellar to cellar. They lived underground and moved by night, the radio station, manned by Mostar's intelligentsia, a centre of intense and stubborn life.

Because east Mostar was cut off from the outside world, apart from limited UN ...

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