12 September 1994 The Pope will not visit Sarajevo. The project has been abandoned because of Principles, of which there seem to have been many. I wonder what a soldier stationed somewhere above Sarajevo would have made of Bosnian Serb Commander General Ratko Mladic’s order: “Don’t shoot tomorrow. The Pope is coming and we’re indebted to him!” Or, on the […]

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