As difficult as it was to believe that. it was surely not possible to believe that it would last through another winter and through that winter and on into another winter. Military men of great morale and endurance have been getting food in there. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. there were two persons directing the relief effort in the whole of Sarajevo when I was there. but they were feeding a city that had no food. Whatever came in by airlift or convoy one day. was eaten the next. And yet. it has gone on another year. George Soros. a man of great stature who has made great endeavors on this subject. said something painful. rending. He said. "Sarajevo has become a concentration camp run by the United Nations." I spoke with the Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva not long ago and I asked him about this. He said. we can indeed say it is a camp. a refugee camp of people. deprived of every means of existence. being maintained by others. And I say that is indefensible. We will not forgive ourselves if. in the first large event of the postcoldwar era. we allow international law to be shredded. when we deny even the capacity of selfdefense to a nation being torn apart by ethnic hatred and foreign invasion.
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