Bosnia-Herzegovina: Fighting Continues

Record ID: 3506

  • Title: Bosnia-Herzegovina: Fighting Continues
  • Date: 5th May 1992
  • Summary: Moslem fighters gave the Yugoslav army an ultimatum to withdraw from Sarajevo after a night of bitter fighting forced most EC peace monitors to leave the Bosnian capital on May 5. The EC mission said it withdrew 25 monitors at dawn on May 5 leaving a skeleton staff of nine, including Irish Army Major Colm Doyle, a special envoy of EC peace negotiator Lord Carrington. United Nations peace envoy Marrack Goulding arrived in Sarajevo after being delayed for seven hours at a helicopter base outside the capital because of fighting. Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic said the Federal army should leave Bosnia-Herzegovina in peace and renewed his appeal for U.N. peacekeeping forces to be sent to Bosnia.
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  • Location: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
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