BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA / SERBIA : REFUGEES LEAVE SERB HELD TOWN BRCKO. MEANWHILE SERBIAN RADICAL PARTY HOLDS RALLY.

Record ID: 275086

  • Title: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA / SERBIA : REFUGEES LEAVE SERB HELD TOWN BRCKO. MEANWHILE SERBIAN RADICAL PARTY HOLDS RALLY.
  • Date: 19th May 1995
  • Summary: BRCKO; RIPAC; PRITOKA;BOSANSKA GRADISKA; BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA/ NOVI SAD, YUGOSLAVIA (MAY 19, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) BRKO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA 1. GV VIEW OF BRCKO TOWN 0.06 2. SV WRECKED BUILDINGS/ RUBBLE/ MAN LOOKING THROUGH HOLE IN ROOF (3 SHOTS) 0.14 3. SLV/SV WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN SHELTER DURING ALERT (3 SHO
  • Embargoed: 3rd June 1995 13:00
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  • Location: BRCKO; NEAR BRKO; RIPAC; PRITOKA; BOSANSKA GRADISKA; BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA / NOVI SAD, YUGOSLAVIA
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  • Country: EUROPE Bosnia Yugoslavia Yugoslavia Yugoslavia Yugoslavia Yugoslavia Yugoslavia Croatia
  • Reuters ID: LVACH9V4OXQL4W5B54DRYAEF94UB
  • Story Text: Croatian and Moslem artillery continued to target the Serb-held town of Brcko in northern Bosnia-Herzegovina on Friday (May 19), Bosnian Serb sources said.

    Several buildings in the town were damaged by the attacks, the Bosnian Serb Army (BSA) source said. Civilians found shelter in cellars during the shelling.

    BSA soldiers patrolled the frontline, searching for Moslem and Croat troops. One Bosnian Serb soldier was wounded by a mine during a patrol, BSA said.

    Soldiers belonging to the Moslem-dominated government's Fifth Corps set houses alight in territory captured from the BSA during an offensive aimed at expanding the northwestern Bihac pocket, a United Nations (U.N.) military source said.

    U.N. civilian spokesman Christopher Gunness said in Zagreb that the fires occurred south of Serb-held Bosanska Krupa.

    The Moslem-led government troops captured the town of Ripac, nine kilometres (six miles) southeast of Bihac, together with Pritoka, Racic, Tihotina, Prasciak and Hrgar villages this week and have been advancing steadily east towards Bosanska Krupa.

    The Fifth Corps in Bihac has been surrounded by Bosnian and Croatian Serbs since the war began more than three years ago.

    They have also been harried by a rebel Moslem militia group headed by local business tycoon Fikret Abdic.

    About 3.000 Serb refugees from Croatian's region of Western Slavonia crossed the Sava river bridge near Bosanska Gradiska into northern Bosnia.

    The refugees were mainly women with children and elderly people who had left camps in Gradiska, Nova Topola and Laktasi in Western Slavonia and headed for the border crossing near Bosanska Gradiska between Croatia and Serb-held northern Bosnia.

    The convoy of vehicles was escorted by U.N. officers.

    The convoy of refugees headed for the border crossing between Bosnia and Yugoslavia.

    Yugoslav authorities are expected to send the refugees to Eastern Slavonia.

    Earlier this month, Croatian forces recaptured Western Slavonia from rebel Serbs.

    More than 8.000 people attended a Serbian Radical Party rally in Novi Sad, 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of the Yugoslav capital, Belgrade.

    Leader of Serbian Radical Party Vojislav Seselj accused Serbia's President Slobodan Milosevic of selling Western Slavonia to Croatian President Franjo Tudjman.

    "We (Radicals) will form great Serbia( We are fighting for it(", Seselj told the gathered crowd.


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