Volume 41, Number 7 · April 7, 1994
Hope for Bosnia?
By Misha Glenny
Dusk falls on the center of Sarajevo and two hundred ghostly figures, turned eastward, silently pass seven bodies from hand to hand before lowering them into another mass grave. The three imams offer up prayers on behalf of the dead. Inspired by these voices which seem to pierce Sarajevo's shadows, the neighborhood dogs begin to howl in unison as if sensing the grief of their fellow creatures.
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