- Title: CROATIA/BOSNIA: BOSNIAN SERBS EXPEL HUNDREDS OF CROATS
- Date: 14th August 1995
- Summary: DAVOR AND ZAGREB, CROATIA/SREMSKA RACA BORDER CROSSING, YUGOSLAVIA/DONJI VAKUF JAJCE AND MRKONJIC GRAD, BOSNIA/VUKOVAR, EAST SLAVONIA (AUGUST 14, 1995)(RTV - ACCESS ALL) DAVOR, CROATIA 1. LV/GV: BOSNIAN-CROAT-REFUGEES CROSSING RIVER BY BOAT/CROATIAN SOLDIERS WATCH (3 SHOTS) 0.31 2. GV: CROAT REFUGEES ARRIVING AT OTHER SIDE (2 SHOTS) 0.43 3. GV: CROAT REFUGEES ARRIVING AT RECEPTION CENTRE AND BEING GREETED 1.01 4. GV: CROAT TWO WOMEN GREETING EACH OTHER 1.16 5. LV: CROAT REFUGEES GATHERED TOGETHER 1.22 SREMSKA RACA BORDER CROSSING, YUGOSLAVIA 6. GV: LONG LINE OF VEHICLES WAITING TO CROSS TO SERBIA (2 SHOTS) 1.26 7. MV/GV: MAN OF DRAFT AGE ON TRACTOR/MEN PUSHING CAR (2 SHOTS) 1.37 8. GV/PAN: VEHICLES PASSING THROUGH BORDER 1.44 9. GV/CU/GV: FAMILY IN REAR OF TRUCK/ MORE VEHICLES CROSS BORDER 15 KM FROM DORNJI VAKUF (7 SHOTS) 2.27 10. LV: FRONTLINE 2.31 11. MV: BOSNIAN SERB COMMANDER SHOWING JOURNALISTS LOCATION OF FRONTLINE IN NOTEBOOK 2.45 12. GV/CU: BOSNIAN SERB SOLDIERS CLEANING ANTI AIRCRAFT GUNS/ MISSILE (4 SHOTS) 3.12 13. GV: BOSNIAN SERB SOLDIERS ON TRUCK (2 SHOTS) 3.19 14. GV/PAN: BODIES OF BOSNIAN GOVERNMENT SOLDIERS KILLED THAT MORNING LAID OUT ON FLOOR 3.26 MRKONJIC GRAD 15. LV: BOSNIAN SERB LEADER RADOVAN KARADZIC ARRIVES IN CAR/WAVES 3.38 16. GV/MV:CHILDREN IN CROWD/KARADZIC GREETS CROWD/KISSES CHILD (2 SHOTS) 3.54 JAJCE 17. GV/MV: KARADZIC AT WAR COMMITTEE MEETING (2 SHOTS) 4.01 18. GV/MCU: KARADZIC LEAVING MEETING AND COMMENT (ENGLISH) 4.59 DONJI VAKUF 19. GV/MV: BOSNIAN SERB SOLDIERS ON STREET/ PEOPLE SITTING UNDER TREES (3 SHOTS) 5.10 VUKOVAR, EAST SLAVONIA 20. GV: EXTERIOR HOSPITAL/ AMBULANCE ARRIVING 5.23 21. GV: PATIENTS IN WARD (3 SHOTS) 5.38 22. MCU: MILITARY DOCTOR COLONEL JOVICA PUSKA SAYING THE HOSPITAL IS UNDER MILITARY CONTROL (SERBO-CROAT) 5.57 23. GV: PATIENTS IN BEDS 6.02 ZAGREB, CROATIA 24. GV/MV/CU: ALADIN (BOY) AND SANYA (GIRL) WITH THEIR GUARDIANS, GETTING READY TO FLY TO ITALY FOR TREATMENT (6 SHOTS) 6.29 TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE 18: KARADZIC: "WE HAVE A VERY INTENSIVE MOSLEM OFFENSIVE AND IT IS ONE OF MANY MOSLEM OFFENSIVES THAT ARE NOT SUCCESSFUL. THEY HAVE MANY MANY CASUALTIES. PEOPLE HERE ARE VERY DECISIVE TO STAY HERE AND DEFEND THEIR HOMES AND THAT IS VERY ENCOURAGING. THE AUTHORITY IS FUNCTIONING EXCELLENTLY AND I AM VERY GLAD. I AM SATISFIED AFTER THIS VISIT AND I AM CONVINCED THAT WE ARE GOING TO WIN AND THE MOSLEMS DO NOT HAVE ANY CHANCE ON THE BATTLEFIELD, ROUND THE CONFERENCE TABLE NOT ON THE BATTLEFIELD." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: DAVOR AND ZAGREB, CROATIA/SREMSKA RACA BORDER CROSSING, YUGOSLAVIA/DONJI VAKUF JAJCE AND MRKONJIC GRAD, BOSNIA/VUKOVAR, EAST SLAVONIA
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- Country: EUROPE Bosnia Yugoslavia Yugoslavia Yugoslavia Yugoslavia Yugoslavia Yugoslavia Croatia
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- Story Text: Bosnian Serbs expelled hundreds of Croats on Monday (August 14) in what U.N. officials feared was a final push to clear their stronghold around the northern town of Banja Luka of non-Serbs.
Thousands of non-Serbs were forced onto ferries taking them from Banja Luka across the Sava River to Croatia. The action was in apparent reprisal for the flight of 150,000 Serb refugees from the rebel Krajina region captured by Croatia last week.
Croat men younger than 45 were blocked from leaving by Bosnian Serbs in a move a U.N. official called "sinister." The Croats were deposited on the Serb-held river bank across from the village of Davor 150 km (93 miles) from Zagreb after being bused from Banja Luka 45 km (25 miles) to the south.
In central Bosnia, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic visited the towns of Jajce and Mrkonjic Grad, south of Banja Luka.
In Mrkonjic Grad, Karadzic was greeted by about a thousand cheering people.
In Jajce, Karadzic met the local war committee for talks on the current situation. Coming out of the meeting, he said he was encouraged by the decisiveness of the Bosnian Serbs in defending their homes and was convinced they would win.
The Bosnian Serb army is deployed in positions 15 kilometres (10 miles) from Donji Vakuf, near the village of Oborci. Bosnian Serb soldiers were seen sorting ammunition and cleaning their guns.
Bosnian Serb army commanders said their troops came under attack from Bosnian government troops on Monday from the direction of Bugojno. They said 12 Moslem soldiers were killed in the fighting.
Staff at a hospital in the East Slavonian capital Vukovar have begun preparing for a Croatian attack.
Military doctor, Colonel Jovica Puska, currently in charge of the hospital, said it was now under military control and on a state of alert. All civilian patients had been transferred to other clinics in the town.
The first casualties had already arrived, including several men wounded by mortar grenades and shells from Croatian frontlines.
Meanwhile, two Moslem children were on their way from Zagreb to Italy on Monday to get artificial limbs.
Aladin Hodzic, a four-year-old Moslem boy lost a leg in the Serb siege of Bihac. He was accompanied by seven year old Sanya.
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