NBC Nightly News - 1993-08-07 (partial)
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[0:01] blockade, probably in response to
[0:03] threatened NATO air strikes. Tanks and
[0:05] artillery were coming down from two
[0:07] mountaintops, but there is some
[0:09] confusion about the move. Earlier today,
[0:11] Serbian leader Radovan Karadzic said
[0:13] there would be no quick withdrawal. He
[0:15] imposed conditions.
[0:17] >> We ask United Nations
[0:19] to get sufficient troops and to take the
[0:22] full control, not only to monitor those
[0:24] two mountains.
[0:25] >> Karadzic knows the UN does not have the
[0:27] troops to do that immediately, nor the
[0:29] manpower to repair roads and rebuild the
[0:31] bridges into Sarajevo. But even if the
[0:33] siege is lifted, no magic switch will
[0:36] quickly return power and water to this
[0:37] city. The damage is too great.
[0:40] The electrical grid and power plants are
[0:42] destroyed. The only available drinking
[0:44] water comes from a few taps, and the
[0:46] people line up. Hospital conditions are
[0:49] at the lowest level in 16 months. This
[0:51] boy was hit by anti-aircraft rounds.
[0:54] Doctors hope they have saved his arm and
[0:56] leg.
[0:57] They say this little girl will die if
[0:58] she is not evacuated, but in a city
[1:01] under siege, it may not happen.
[1:03] >> We are surrounded
[1:05] without
[1:07] enough supply of food,
[1:10] petrol,
[1:11] all things, electricity, gas.
[1:14] We have a nothing.
[1:17] >> With little running water and
[1:18] electricity, the river Miljacka is
[1:20] Sarajevo's washing machine. The
[1:22] mechanical kind is only a memory.
[1:24] And Sarajevo reborn seems a distant
[1:27] dream. Rick Davis, NBC News, Sarajevo.
[1:31] >> In this country, rescuers are searching
[1:33] for more victims of the tornado which
[1:36] destroyed more than half the buildings
[1:37] in histo