http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/current/international/stories/bosniapeople.html (Einblicke ins Internet, 10/1995)
SARAJEVO (Reuter) - Sarajevans craned their necks on Friday to catch a glimpse of NATO war planes roaring through the skies above the city and wondered aloud why it had taken the jets so long to bomb Serb targets.
``I am convinced the West has finally decided to bring peace here but I wonder why it has taken them so long,'' said 58-year old Mustafa Balic, a professor before the war.
``You can see it does not take such a big effort. Every bomb on Pale (the separatist Serb 'capital' east of Sarajevo) will speed up the peace process. I wish I could be a NATO pilot for just one day.''
NATO jets and U.N. artillery began pounding Bosnian Serb targets around Sarajevo Wednesday in retaliation for a Serb mortar bomb which killed 37 people and wounded 85 others in the city earlier in the week.
More than 500 air sorties and 1,000 artillery rounds later the Serbs were reeling from more punishment in three days than they had received in 40 months of war against lightly armed Bosnian goverment forces.
Bosnian Serb Army air defenses, arms factories, storage depots, communications and command and control facilities were being systematically destroyed with virtually no response from the Serbs except for the downing of a single French plane.
``The only message we have to NATO is to carry on, carry on and bomb their savage brains out, not in hatred but because that is the only way to bring an end to the deaths of innocent civilians in this city,'' said housewife Samija Esmanovic, 42.
For Said Jamakovic, a 36-year old soldier in the Bosnian Army, which has fought the Serbs without heavy weapons because of an international arms embargo, the NATO attacks were a deliverance.
``Thank God the international community finally got serious and realized the only thing the Chetniks (Serbs) understand is force,'' he said. ``Believe me, the more strikes there are the more cooperative the Chetniks will become.''