Sarajevo Shelling Resumes; Serbs Spurn NATO Ultimatum on Moving Heavy Guns

From: The Washington Post | Date: February 11, 1994| Author: John Pomfret | Copyright information

At least two artillery blasts rocked downtown Sarajevo late today, just hours after the Bosnian Serb military rejected a NATO ultimatum to pull back its heavy weapons from around the besieged Bosnian capital or face airstrikes.

It was unclear tonight which of Bosnia's warring factions had fired the shells, which slammed into the city one day after Serb militia forces and Sarajevo's Slavic Muslim defenders had agreed to a U.N.-sponsored cease-fire in the area. But initial reports from...

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