BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: TENSION RISES BETWEEN SERB AND MOSLEM REFUGEES IN THE MOSLEM-HELD TOWN OF CELIC

Record ID: 646270

  • Title: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: TENSION RISES BETWEEN SERB AND MOSLEM REFUGEES IN THE MOSLEM-HELD TOWN OF CELIC
  • Date: 30th April 1996
  • Summary: TUZLA CELIC, BOSNIA (APRIL 30, 1996) (RTV(W) - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV HELICOPTER IN AIR, RUSSIAN IFOR (PROTECTION FORCE) TROOPS STANDING WITH CROWD 0.12 2. SV RUSSIAN IFOR TROOPS BY TANK 0.15 3. LV SERBS STANDING IN WOODS, HOLDING STICKS 0.19 4. SV/SLV VARIOUS OF SERBS WITH STICKS (2 SHOTS) 0.25 5. SV UNITED NATIONS POLICE OFFICER STANDING WITH STRANDED MOSLEMS 0.30 6. CU BUS WITH MOSLEMS INSIDE WAITING 0.35 7. LV POLICE STANDING WITH SERB CIVILIANS 0.39 8. LV MOSLEMS RUNNING UP HILL, THROWING STONES 0.44 9. SV MAN WATCHING WITH BINOCULARS 0.47 10. LV MOSLEMS COMING DOWN HILL 0.54 11. SLV MOSLEMS SHOUTING AT SERBS, MAN WAVING STICK 1.01 12. LV SERBS SHOUTING BACK, MAN GESTICULATING 1.06 13. LV SHOWING SERBS CHEERING PULL OUT GV MOSLEMS IN BUS LEAVING 1.19 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 15th May 1996 13:00
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  • Location: TUZLA CELIC, BOSNIA
  • Reuters ID: LVA2K1KDX67W929UQELFPHI4BEQI
  • Story Text: INTRO: Tension is rising between Serbs and Moslem refugeesin the Moslem-held town of Celic, near Tuzla, in Bosnia.

    ------------------------------------------------------------------ Up to 400 Serbs armed with handguns, sticks and stones on Tuesday (April 30) blocked about 150 Moslem refugees from returning to the Serb-held town of Koraj.

    The Serbs were waiting on their side of the boundary that runs just east of Celic.

    United Nations (U.N.) and IFOR (Protection Force) officials said the Serbs refused to let the party of Moslems through.

    UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) field officer Margarethe Prins said the situation was "extremely tense" and could develop into serious violence.

    Some five to six hundred Moslems, mostly unarmed civilians, had massed from around 9:00 a.m. (0700 GMT) on their side of the boundary line which marks the division between the Moslem-Croat Federation and the Serb's Republika Srpska.

    Four Russian IFOR tanks and several United States (U.S.) and Russian vehicles were blocking two roads at the site.

    Officials said a Russian commander was refusing to let anyone cross the 100 metres (yards) of no man's land separating the two groups.


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