BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA/CROATIA: UNITED NATIONS (U.N) CONDEMN BURNING OF HOMES IN REGION TO BE HANDED BACK TO SERB RULE
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BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA/CROATIA: UNITED NATIONS (U.N) CONDEMN BURNING OF HOMES IN REGION TO BE HANDED BACK TO SERB RULE
- Title: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA/CROATIA: UNITED NATIONS (U.N) CONDEMN BURNING OF HOMES IN REGION TO BE HANDED BACK TO SERB RULE
- Date: 10th December 1995
- Summary: ZAGREB, CROATIA/MRKONJIC GRAD, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA/ SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA/KOPRIVNICA, CROATIA (DECEMBER 10 & 11, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) MRKONJIC GRAD, BOSNIA (DECEMBER 10, 1995) 1. GV/VARIOUS NIGHT VIEWS OF HOUSES BURNING (5 SHOTS) 0.19 (DAY) 2. TRACK BRITISH UNITED NATIONS TROOPS DRIVING THROUGH MRKONJIC GRAD 0.34 3. GV/LV DESTROYED AND BURNT-OUT HOUSES (2 SHOTS) 0.44 ZAGREB, CROATIA (DECEMBER 11) 4. SLV UNITED NATIONS FLAG 0.48 5. SLV/SV U.N SPOKESPERSON PHILIP ARNOT LEAVES BUILDING/ SPEAKING (ENGLISH) (2 SHOTS) 1.40 SARAJEVO, BOSNIA 6. GV CROWD GATHERED AT RALLY 1.46 7. LV UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER ADDRESSING CROWD FROM BALCONY DRAPED WITH BOSNIAN FLAG 1.50 8. SV WOMAN CRYING 1.56 9. SV YOUTHS CHEERING, WAVING MOSLEM FLAG 2.02 10. SV VIEW OF CROWD FROM SPEAKERS' BALCONY/PAN TO CROWD (2 SHOTS) 2.12 11. GV UNITED STATES NATO PLANE TAXI-ING TO HALT AT AIRPORT 2.18 12. SLV UN SOLDIER (BLUE BERET) WAVING DIRECTIONS 2.21 13. GV/SLV/SV GOODS AND EQUIPMENT UNLOADED FROM NATO PLANE/ SOLDIERS ON TARMAC. (5 SHOTS) 2.44 14. GV UNITED NATIONS (U.N) PLANE TAXIING AFTER LANDING 2.51 15. SV CUTAWAY SARAJEVO AIRPORT 2.56 16. GV/SV UNITED NATIONS COMMANDER GENERAL BERNARD JANVIER WALKING WITH UN CHIEF OF MISSION ANTONIO PADAUYE (2 SHOTS) 3.13 17. GV PEOPLE WALKING ACROSS TARMAC 3.17 18. SV EUROPEAN UNION SPECIAL ENVOY GARCIA VARGAS COMMENTING TO REPORTERS ON HIS ARRIVAL (SPANISH) 3.29 KOPRIVNICA, CROATIA (NIGHT) 19. GV/SV FIRST TRAIN ARRIVING AT KOPRIVNICA TRAIN STATION/ SLV EXT. STATION BUILDING, NAME ABOVE IT (2 SHOTS) 3.47 20. GV/SV TRUCKS AND OTHER ARMY VEHICLES ON BOARD OF TRAIN/ STATION CLOCK (3 SHOTS) 4.08 21. GV/SV CAMOUFLAGE PAINTED EQUIPMENT ON BOARD TRAIN (3 SHOTS) 4.23 22. SLV/SV SOLDIER LOOKING THROUGH WINDOW/ BAGGAGE ON TRAIN (2 SHOTS) 4.34 24. GV SECOND TRAIN ARRIVING AT STATION 4.45 SEQ.5: TRANSCRIPT; ARNOT: "THERE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN CONTINUED LOOTING AND BURNING OF HOUSES, A SMALL NUMBER EACH DAY, SO AS TO MAKE NOT TOO GREAT A FIRE. THE UNITED NATIONS (U.N) SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS THE ACTION ON THE PART OF THE CROATIAN AUTHORITIES IN BOSNIA, WHO ARE CONTROLLING THIS AREA WHICH IS TO BE RETURNED TO THE BOSNIAN SERBS WITHIN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS FOLLOWING THE DAYTON ACCORD. IN ADDITION, THE HVO, THE CROATIAN TROOPS HAVE REFUSED TO ALLOW UN MILITARY OBSERVERS TO TRAVEL IN THE AREA. THIS IS A BLATANT VIOLATION OF THE PRINCIPLE AND SPIRIT OF THE DAYTON ACCORD AND IT IS VERY DISAPPOINTING AND ONLY TO BE CONDEMNED." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
- Embargoed: 25th December 1995 12:00
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- Location: MRKONJIC GRAD, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA/ZAGREB, CROATIA/SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA/KOPRIVNICA, CROATIA
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- Country: Croatia
- Reuters ID: LVADZ303T7F620DSE8KUSTI6YY21
- Story Text: Five British Warrior tanks of the 2nd Battalion Light Infantry were temporarily denied access by Bosnian Croat military police to their forward base at a bus depot in Mrkonjic Grad, Bosnia on Sunday (December 10).
Military police stopped the five armoured personnel carriers late on Sunday as they tried to pass through Mrkonjic Grad, which Croats have been burning and systematically looting because the Dayton peace deal returns it to Serb rule. According to the United Nations (U.N.), some 20 houses were burning near the town of Sipovo, near Mrkonjic Grad on Sunday.
U.N. spokesman Philip Arnot said the burnings were deliberate, and that the U.N. condemns the action, and also the blocking of United Nations troops.
The tanks were forced to return to a shoe factory in Mrkonjic Grad, 10 kms (six miles) south of their planned destination. The tanks were later allowed to pass through the checkpoint after a hold-up which the U.N. blamed on misunderstanding.
Major Chris Booth said he believed their restriction was due to bad lines of communication between Bosnian Croat commanders in the area to their troops on the ground. Booth said he did not foresee this as a problem once North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Implementation Force troops are deployed in the area on December 19.
The 2nd Light Infantry, who have been based in Vitez and on Mount Igman as part of the Rapid Reaction Force, were on a two-day journey surveying their forward bases at Bihac, Sanski Most and in the Mrkonjic Grad area.
Hundreds of Bosnians marched through the streets of Sarajevo on Monday (December 11), just one day before Bosnian Serbs are due to hold a referendum on the peace agreement initialled last month in Dayton, Ohio.
About 500 Bosnians attended the rally carrying banners calling for peace and listened to speakers.
Many of the demonstrators were Bosnian refugees expelled from their homes in the Bosnian Serb held suburbs of Sarajevo.
United States' NATO planes continued to bring military equipment into Sarajevo on Monday. A C 130 carrying logistical material landed shortly before midday.
Earlier in the day United Nations (U.N.) force commander General Bernard Janvier arrived, followed by U.N. chief of mission Antonio Padauye.
Newly-appointed EU Special Envoy Garcia Vargas also arrived on Monday for talks with Bosnian politicians on the implementation of the peace plan and the European Union's administration of Mostar.
The first two trains carrying U.S. troops and equipment from bases in Germany to join the NATO peace implementation force in Bosnia arrived in Koprivnica, Croatia early on Monday morning.
The equipment on board, army vehicles and communication gear from the U.S. Army's 72nd Signal Battalion, is due to be used for communications networks in Croatia and Bosnia.
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