CROATIA : UNITED NATIONS AID CONVOY RETURNS TO ZAGREB AFTER FAILED MISSION TO THE BIHAC ENCLAVE
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CROATIA : UNITED NATIONS AID CONVOY RETURNS TO ZAGREB AFTER FAILED MISSION TO THE BIHAC ENCLAVE
- Title: CROATIA : UNITED NATIONS AID CONVOY RETURNS TO ZAGREB AFTER FAILED MISSION TO THE BIHAC ENCLAVE
- Date: 11th March 1995
- Summary: SISAK AND ZAGREB, CROATIA (MARCH 11, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) SISAK, CROATIA 1. SV U.N. PROTECTION FORCE (UNPROFOR) CHECKPOINT (2 SHOTS) 0.09 2. SV CONVOY MOVING OFF 0.16 ZAGREB, CROATIA 3. SV CONVOY PULLING UP 0.22 4. SV TRUCKS (4 SHOTS) 0.46 5. SCU UNIDENTIFIED DRIVER SAYING IT WAS A GOOD JOURNEY (ENGLISH) 0.52 6. SCU STEVE BURNS, CONVOY LEADER, SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 1.16 7. SV CONVOY PERSONNEL 1.22 8. SCU BURNS SAYING THE WAREHOUSES ARE EMPTY (ENGLISH) 1.39 9. SV MEN MOVING OFF 1.46 10. SV MEN POSING FOR PICTURES THEN MOVING OFF 1.53 11. SCU TONY WINTON, BRITISH OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION REPRESENTATIVE, SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 2.12 12. SV MEN POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS 2.22 SEQUENCE 6 TRANSCRIPT: BURNS :"WE GOT TO THE CHECKPOINT, WE THOUGHT WE WERE ALL COMING HOME AND THEN THE SHELL LANDED VERY CLOSE AND THAT WAS WHEN WE HAD TO TURN BACK, AND THEN FOR THE NEXT 12 DAYS AFTER THAT WE JUST BEEN SITTING THERE TRYING EVERY SINGLE DAY TRYING TO GET THROUGH BUT NO LUCK UNTIL TODAY, THE 13TH DAY LUCKY FOR SOME" SEQUENCE 11 TRANSCRIPT: WINTON :"IT WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE AS DIFFICULT AS IT HAS BEEN SINCE ABOUT APRIL LAST YEAR. I CAN'T SEE IT IMPROVING AND I THINK THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE THERE WILL CONTINUE TO DETERIORATE IN A WAY AS IT HAS DONE IN THE LAST TWELVE MONTHS" Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
- Embargoed: 26th March 1995 13:00
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- Location: SISAK, ZAGREB, CROATIA
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- Country: Croatia
- Reuters ID: LVA993I59MHJ7B1Z0TTOPTRS4PXK
- Story Text: A United Nations (U.N.) relief convoy returned to Zagreb on Saturday (March 11) having failed to deliver aid to civilians trapped in the Bihac enclave in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The convoy came under fire 12 days ago and had to take refuge at a U.N. camp. Rebel moslem forces in the area had refused to allow it to proceed.
Convoy leader Steve Burns said the people they had been trying to help had now run out of food and warehouses were empty.
British overseas aid representative Tony Winton said he believed future convoys would have similar problems and people would continue to suffer.
The rebels have used the pretext of heavy fighting to refuse to let U.N. convoys cross their lines to reach up to 150,000 civilians trapped in government territory. Civilians trapped in the Bihac enclave of northwest Bosnia now face imminent starvation because of the blockade on food convoys by rebel Serbs and Moslems, a U.N.
official said.
Earlier in the day, the UNHCR -- the main U.N. refugee agency -- decided to cut off relief supplies to the rebels until the blockade was lifted.
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