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One tnousand surgeries since nghting began on May 9, 1993, many by candlelight. No oxygen. No electrical power. No heating. No ambulances.

A walking tour of east Mostar, or what is left of it, followed. Most buildings are reduced to empty shells reminiscent of World War II bombed out cities. Much of life has moved underground in unlighted, unheated and certainly unventilated cellars. Young children, women and the elderly climb out of these dens only too infrequently when the shelling pauses. Even the persistent cloud covered gloom offers a too bright contrast to the nearly pitch black basements so that people do little more than stand around. Blinking. Bewildered.

Life does go on. We held for a moment, a seven-day old baby girl.

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