BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: UNITED STATES IFOR TROOPS BEGIN DESTROYING BUNKERS ON ONE OF THE FRONTLINE AREAS OF BOSNIA

Record ID: 337695

  • Title: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: UNITED STATES IFOR TROOPS BEGIN DESTROYING BUNKERS ON ONE OF THE FRONTLINE AREAS OF BOSNIA
  • Date: 28th February 1996
  • Summary: NEAR BRCKO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (FEBRUARY 28, 1996) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV UNITED STATES (U.S.) SOLDIERS MARCHING ACROSS SNOW COVERED FIELDS 0.13 2. SV U.S. SOLDIERS GETTING INTO BUNKERS/ EXPLOSIVES/ U.S. SOLDIERS LAYING EXPLOSIVES 0.17 3. SV U.S. SOLDIER INSIDE TRENCH/ CLOSE UP OF EXPLOSIVE 0.26 4. SV U.S. OFFICER 0.40 5. SV U.S. SOLDIER IN TRENCH EXPLAINING WHERE HE HAS PLACED EXPLOSIVES (ENGLISH) 0.48 6. SV U.S. SOLDIERS WALKING BACK FROM BUNKER SITE 1.01 7. SV LARGE EXPLOSION FROM BUNKER SITE 1.14 8. SCU U.S. SOLDIER 1.18 9. SV U.S. SOLDIER LOOKING THROUGH BINOCULARS AT EXPLOSION IN DISTANCE 1.28 10. SCU U.S. SOLDIER LOOKING AT BLOWN UP BUNKER 1.31 11. SV REMAINS OF BUNKER 1.36 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 14th March 1996 12:00
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  • Location: NEAR BRCKO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
  • Reuters ID: LVA33EWRONL5SKZVNVJM9D5YT2RH
  • Story Text: American Implementation Force troops on Wednesday (February 28) began destroying bunkers along what was one of the most fraught frontline areas in Bosnia during the almost four years of war.

    Soldiers from the 1st battalion 23rd engineers struggled through snow-bound fields to reach a web of muddy trenches which were home to hundreds of Bosnian government soldiers during the war.

    The Serb-held frontline area was the scene of fierce fighting as opposing armies battled for the control of a narrow corridor which was the Serb lifeline linking northwest Bosnia with the nominal Bosnian-Serb capital of Pale.

    The bunkers - now abandoned in terms of the Dayton accord were packed with heavy explosives and destroyed by the U.S. soldiers.


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