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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock Newa Staff Writer
The picture of conditions in Sarajevo presented at the library Sunday by members of the medical team which went there from Warrenton was grim indeed.
Dr. David Clark began by recounting a history of the region. The Serbs are Eastern Orthodox, while the Croats are Roman Catholic and many of the Bosnians are Muslim, he said, but they are all decendents of Slavic tribes who migrated into the area between the Sixth and Eighth centuries j
“There is long-standing bad blood between the Croats, Serbs and Muslims,” he said. Dining the Second World War the Croats, who often were allied with the Nazis, “committed a series of masacres that spawned rebellion.” Following the war the Serbian nationalists lost out to the communists, he said. But under Marshall Tito the area had 35 years of peace.
Dr. Clark said that he frequently saw Tito’s portrait on the wall during his stay in Sarajevo, and Tito is “viewed fondly.” He said that during that period Bosnia was transformed from an agrarian to a “modem industrial society.” Sarajevans belonging to all three ethnic groups lived in harmony. Thirty-five percent of the marriages were of mixed ethnic heritage, he said.
When Bosnians voted for independence from the remainder of Yugoslavia most of the Army was Serbian. There was a “mass exodus” from the Army barracks. They headed for the hills around Sarajevo “with tanks, guns and artilery,” he said
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