- Title: CROATIA: U.S AMBASSADOR PETER GALBRAITH COMMENTS ON BOMBING OF ZAGREB
- Date: 2nd May 1995
- Summary: OKUCANI AND ZAGREB, CROATIA (MAY 2, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) OKUCANI, CROATIA 1. SLV/PAN CROATIAN GOVERNMENT TROOPS ENTER TOWN/TROOPS IN STREET CELEBRATING/TANKS (4 SHOTS) 0.30 ZAGREB, CROATIA 2. SV CROATIAN PRESIDENT FRANJO TUDJMAN IN HOSPITAL / GREETING WOUNDED/CHILD IN BED (3 SHOTS) 1.03 ZAGREB, CROATIA 3. SV UNIT
- Embargoed: 17th May 1995 13:00
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- Location: OKUCANI AND ZAGREB, CROATIA
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- Country: Croatia
- Reuters ID: LVA8XQTSZIA05ZP1KDZ0L63S70H
- Story Text: The Croatian army seized all strategic points in a Serb-held enclave on Tuesday (May 2) and United Nations (U.N.) peacekeeping officials said they expected a large group of rebel Serb soldiers to surrender.
Croatian forces seized control of all key points in the Western Slavonian enclave, held by Serbs since 1991, after charging across U.N. truce lines with tanks and troops in a dawn raid one day earlier.
The Croatian army took control of a cross-country motorway, the Serb-held town of Okucani and the northern part of the pocket, east of the divided town of Pakrac.
It was Croatia's biggest recapture of territory since its Serb minority rebelled against its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, seized one-third of the country and set up their own self-styled Republic of Serb Krajina.
The assault produced swift retaliation from the Croatian Serbs who rocketed the centre of Zagreb.
Five people were killed and 134 wounded by the rockets which smashed rows of parked cars, shattered windows in buildings and left speckle-patterned craters in the asphalt.
U.S. ambassador Peter Galbraith said the four rockets fired into the Croatian capital carried cluster-bomb warheads. He denounced the attack as an "outrageous response...designed to kill as many civilians as possible in a major European capital."
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