CROATIA/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: THE UNITED NATIONS AID CONVOY FINALLY REACHES THE BIHAC ENCLAVE AFTER BEING HELD UP FOR TWO DAYS
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CROATIA/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: THE UNITED NATIONS AID CONVOY FINALLY REACHES THE BIHAC ENCLAVE AFTER BEING HELD UP FOR TWO DAYS
- Title: CROATIA/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: THE UNITED NATIONS AID CONVOY FINALLY REACHES THE BIHAC ENCLAVE AFTER BEING HELD UP FOR TWO DAYS
- Date: 21st February 1995
- Summary: BORDER BETWEEN SERB KRAJINA, CROATIA AND REBEL MOSLEM TERRITORY IN NORTHWEST BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (FEBRUARY 21, 1995) (REUTERS TELEVISION - AVAILABLE ALL) NIGHT VIEWS 1. SV UNHCR (UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES) CONVOY 0.04 2. SCU CONVOY LEADER MIKE DAVIS SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 0.38 3. SV VARIOUS NIGHT SHOTS OF THE UNHCR CONVOY STOPPED, TRUCKS PARKED IN LINE (2 SHOTS) 0.50 4. CU TRUCK LICENCE PLATE 0.52 5. SV TRUCKS 0.59 SEQUENCE 2 transcript: DAVIS :"MY PAY LOAD IS A HUNDRED TONNES OF FLOUR, EDIBLE OIL, SALT, YEAST AND IS EMERGENCY SUPPLIES FOR THE BIHAC POCKET. SUPPLIES IN THAT LOCATION ARE RUNNING VERY, VERY LOW OBVIOUSLY WITH THE CURRENT SITUATION. WE HAD A CONVOY IN THREE DAYS AGO AND PEOPLE WERE SEEN TO BE STARVING INCLUDING OBVIOUSLY CHILDREN. SO WE ARE VERY KEEN TO CONTINUE TOMORROW GIVEN THE AUTHORITY TO GET THIS FOOD TO THE REFUGEES IN THE BIHAC POCKET" Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
- Embargoed: 8th March 1995 12:00
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- Location: BORDER BETWEEN SERB KRAJINA, CROATIA AND REBEL MOSLEM TERRITORY IN NORTHWEST BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
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- Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Story Text: A United Nations (U.N.) aid convoy reached Bosnian government-held territory in the Bihac enclave on Wednesday (February 22) after being held up for two days by Moslem rebels and their Croatian Serb allies, a U.N. spokesman said.
The 10 trucks, loaded with food for hungry civilians, arrived in Cazin in the centre of the northwestern enclave after spending the night in the Moslem rebel stronghold of Velika Kladusa, he said.
The convoy was earlier stopped on the border between the Serb-held Krajina enclave in Croatia and rebel Moslems territory in northwest Bosnia, at the Polish U.N. Protection Force's battalion post.
"Supplies are running very, very low. We had a convoy in there three days ago and people were seen starving, including obviously children", the convoy's leader, Mike Davis, said.
Krajina Serbs and Moslem rebels loyal to businessman Fikret Abdic, who are battling Bosnian government army forces in Bihac, have consistently blocked regular deliveries of food aid since May 1994.
The convoy originally tried to enter the enclave from the west through Serb-held territory in Croatia but the Krajina Serbs broke earlier pledges and turned the U.N. trucks back.
Abdic said on Tuesday that the Bosnian government's army had in the past few days switched tactics, from a military offensive to a humanitarian one.
He said the Bosnian government was trying to flare up and further the conflict in northern and north western Bosnia by insisting that the U.N. aid convoys are given access to routes other than those agreed to by warring commanders on the ground.
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