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Mission to Sarajevo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Ernesto A. Pretto*
Affiliation:
Associate Professor and Principal Investigator, Disaster Reanimatology Study Group, International Resuscitation Research Center (IRRC), Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Mirsada Begovic
Affiliation:
Visiting Research Associate, Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, University of Pittsburgh
*
University of Pittsburgh, 3434 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA

Extract

Each of us has witnessed news reports and graphic television scenes of the willful targeting of innocent noncombatants by military forces; the displacement of tens of thousands of men, women, and children; and the diabolical genocidal tactics of “ethnic cleansing” of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. An international effort to establish a United Nations war crimes tribunal is being developed, but even this plan is running out of steam for lack of funding. These events are unfolding in “civilized” and “enlightened” Europe. We all know what is happening, yet world leaders have been reluctant to intervene.

Type
Invited Papers
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1994

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