BOSNIA/VARIOUS: NATO LED PEACEKEEPERS KILL SIMO DRLJACA AND CAPTURE MILAN KOVACEVIC IN OPERATION TO ARREST BOSNIAN SERB WAR CRIMINALS

Record ID: 1002773

  • Title: BOSNIA/VARIOUS: NATO LED PEACEKEEPERS KILL SIMO DRLJACA AND CAPTURE MILAN KOVACEVIC IN OPERATION TO ARREST BOSNIAN SERB WAR CRIMINALS
  • Date: 10th July 1997
  • Summary: SHEVENINGEN, NETHERLANDS (JULY 10, 1997) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. EXTERIOR OF PRISON COMPLEX 0.05 2. CU SIGN SAYING PRISON COMPLEX SHEVENINGEN 0.09 3. GV TWO POLICE MERCEDES CARS ARRIVING AT SPEED OUTSIDE PRISON, ONE VEHICLE ENTERING, WITH MEDIA AT PRISON GATE 0.25 LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (JULY 10, 1997) (SKY - NO ACCESS UK/EURONEWS/CNN) 4. SV BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY ROBIN COOK SAYING :"THIS MORNING BRITISH FORCES ACTING UNDER NATO INSTRUCTIONS AND AS PART OF A NATO OPERATION SET OUT TO APPREHEND TWO INDICTED WAR CRIMINALS.I AM PLEASED TO SAY THAT ONE OF THOSE WAR CRIMINALS HAS BEEN APPREHENDED AND IS NOW UNDER ARREST.THE OTHER ALLEGED WAR CRIMINAL DID PRODUCE A FIREARM AND THERE WAS A GUN BATTLE, IN WHICH ONE BRITISH SOLDIER WAS LIGHTLY WOUNDED. THE SUSPECT HIMSELF WAS KILLED. I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT IAM VERY PROUD OF THE PERFORMANCE OF THE BRITISH FORCES IN THIS OPERATION, THEY HAVE SHOWN VERY CONSIDERABLE COURAGE, THE USE OF FIREARMS ON THIS OCCASION DOES DEMONSTRATE THAT THE RISKS THAT THEY TOOK. I BELIEVE THAT WE WERE RIGHT TO MOUNT THIS OPERATION BECAUSE IT SO IMPORTANT THAT WE DO ACHIEVE A UNITED BOSNIA. WE CAN ONLY DO THAT BY BRINGING TO TRIAL THOSE WHO SOUGHT TO DIVIDE BOSNIA BY THE MOST APPALLING METHODS" (ENGLISH) 1.27 NEAR PALE, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (RTV-A) (FILE) 5. GV SFOR TROOPS MOVING DOWN ROAD IN ARMOURED VEHICLES 1.33 6. SV BRITISH SFOR FORCES ON GUARD OUTSIDE BASE 1.35 7. CU OF RIFLE 1.39 MRKONIC GRAD, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (FILE - MARCH 21, 1996) (RTV) - ACCESS ALL) 8. GV BRITISH SFOR TROOPS WALKING DOWN ROAD 1.42 9. SLV BRITISH HEAVY ARMOUR CHALLENGER TANK 1.45 10. CU OF CHALLENGER TANK WITH BRITISH FLAG 1.46 11. CU OF BRITISH SOLDIER SITTING IN TANK WITH BINOCULARS 1.48 12. GV BRITISH SOLDIER STANDING NEAR IFOR TRUCK 1.53 PRIJEDOR, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (FILE - APRIL 5, 1994) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 13. LV MAIN ROAD INTO TOWN 1.55 14. CU TOWN CLOCK AND PAN OUT TO TOWN SQUARE 2.04 15. SV OLD WOMAN WALKING ACROSS STREET 2.09 16. GV THREE GIRLS WALKING IN STREET 2.12 OMASKA, BOSNIA (FILE - AUGUST 9, 1992) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 17. PAN EXTERIOR OF OMARSKA CAMP, AND SHOTS OF PRISONERS SEATED ON THE GROUND 2.19 18. GV OF PRISONERS SITTING ON THE GROUND 2.27 19. INTERIOR OF CAMP SHOWING BEDS 2.32 20. GV PRISONER SITTING ON BED 2.36 21. EXT PRISONERS BEING MARCHED OUTSIDE 2.44 PRIJEDOR (PALE TELEVISION) (JULY 10, 1997) (QUALITY AS INCOMING) 22. EXTERIOR OF PRIJEDOR HOSPITAL 2.47 (FILE) 23. MILAN KOVACEVIC 2.54 NEAR PRIJEDOR, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (PALE TELEVISION) (JULY 10, 1997) 24. GV CAR ON HILLSIDE AT CAMP-SITE NEAR LAKE. 3.01 (FILE - PALE TELEVISION) 25. STILL PHOTO OF SERB POLICE CHIEF SIMO DRLJACA 3.08 NEAR PRIJEDOR, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (JULY 10, 1997) (PALE TV) 26. CU BULLET ON GROUND 3.15 27. CU BLOODSTAINS ON GROUND 3.22 28. CU/GV SMOKE GRENADES ON GROUND (2 SHOTS) 3.31 BANJA LUKA (RTV-A - ACCESS ALL) (JULY 10, 1997) 29. GV PRESS CONFERENCE WITH BOSNIAN SERB PRESIDENT BILJANA PLAVSIC ARRIVING 3.38 30. GV MEDIA 3.42 31. SCU BOSNIAN SERB PRESIDENT BILJANA PLAVSIC PROTESTING AT THE NATO ACTION, SAYING IT UNDERMINES HER OWN POSITION AND BATTLE AGAINST THE NO.1 WAR CRIMINAL RADOVAN KARADZIC (SERBO CROAT) 4.01 32. GV MEDIA 4.04 THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS (FILE - JULY 4, 1997) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 33. EXTERIOR U.N. WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL 4.08 34. CU OF SIGN STATING UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA 4.12 35. TV JUDGES ENTERING COURT 4.19 36. TV COURT IN SESSION SHOWING JUDGES AND LAWYERS 4.29 Initials P3/2 S3/2 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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  • Location: SHEVENINGEN, NETHERLANDS/ LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM/ NEAR PALE, MRKONIC GRAD, PRIJEDOR, OMASKA, AND BANJA LUKA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
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