11.   Those who have not served with the army appear genuinely to believe that the guns ring the capital only to protect civilians in its Serb-held neighborhoods.

12.   Elsewhere in the affected areas ringing the capital, Serbs are selling their belongings and moving valuables out from homes.

13.   The only route into the city now is a dangerous mountain track that is regularly targetted by Bosnian Serb gunners who ring the capital.

14.   Vogosca was the first of five Serb-held suburbs ringing the capital to revert to government control last Friday.

15.   Panic has gripped the Serb-held suburbs that ring the capital and are due to revert to government control in the coming weeks.

16.   Security sweeps take place on a daily basis in the large poor suburbs that ring the capital and are regarded as fundamentalist strongholds.