BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: BOSNIAN SERBS THREATEN U.N. MONITORS

Record ID: 646490

  • Title: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: BOSNIAN SERBS THREATEN U.N. MONITORS
  • Date: 18th July 1996
  • Summary: PALE AND SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (JULY 18, 1996) (RTV (W) -- ACCESS ALL) PALE, BOSNIA 1. SV TOWN SIGN 0.07 2. LV/GV STREET SCENES (3 SHOTS) 0.22 3. LV/SV IMPLEMENTATION FORCE (IFOR) AND POLICE AT INTERNATIONAL POLICE TASK FORCE (IPTF) STATION (5 SHOTS) 0.44 SARAJEVO, BOSNIA 4. SV IFOR SPOKESMAN MAX MARRINER SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 0.58 5. LV BOSNIAN SERB TANKS BEING MOVED (5 SHOTS) 1.47 SEQUENCE 4 TRANSCRIPT: MARRINER: "IT'S VERY SPECIFIC. THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT TAKING PEOPLE AND KILLING THEM. THAT IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE IN ANY SOCIETY. THIS MAN IS AN ADMINISTRATOR IN A LOCAL COMMUNITY. HE SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE AT THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY BY THE REPUBLICA SRPSKA AUTHORITIES." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 2nd August 1996 13:00
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  • Location: PALE AND SARAJEVO; BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
  • Reuters ID: LVAA49L53E04DQ3WHYUZIRD98A2M
  • Story Text: INTRO: The Implementation Force (IFOR) will demand the dismissal of a Bosnian Serb mayor who threatened to kill U.N monitors in Bosnia if indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic is arrested. It was the third time this week Bosnian Serbs had made threats against U.N. monitors.

    Speaking to reporters in Sarajevo on Thursday (July 18), IFOR spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Max Marriner said that the comment by Ugljevik Mayor Miladin Stefanovicn was "outrageous." According to Marriner, the mayor of the northern Bosnian town vowed to "immediately kill" United Nations (U.N.) monitors if there was any attempt to capture Karadzic or Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic.

    Karadzic and Mladic face genocide charges relating to the siege of Sarajevo and fall of the supposed U.N. "safe area" of Srebrenica.

    Marriner said IFOR and the U.N. would call for Stefanovicn's "immediate dismissal." The threat was the third this week to made by a Bosnian Serb official against U.N. monitors. The chief of police of the Republika Srpska capital said last week that U.N. monitors would be killed if Karadzic was arrested.

    However, the people of the Bosnian Serb stronghold of Pale remained defiant in the face of IFOR's strong stance.

    The atmosphere appeared calm in the town and Italian IFOR patrols continued as usual, but there was an IFOR presence at the International Police Task Force (IPTF) station.

    Regular IFOR patrols also continued 10 km east of Pale, where Italian troops assisted the Bosnian Serb army in moving two track vehicles from one heavy weapons site to another.


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