- Title: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: NATO SOLDIER GUARDING BALLOT PAPTERS SHOT DEAD IN SARAJEVO
- Date: 7th September 1996
- Summary: SARAJEVO AND TUZLA, BOSNIA (SEPTEMBER 7-8, 1996)(RTV/RTV (W) - ACCESS ALL) SARAJEVO (SEPTEMBER 7, 1996) (RTV ACCESS ALL) 1. LV/SLV SATELLITE DISH AND OUTSIDE BROADCAST TRUCK OUTSIDE TV BUILDING (2 SHOTS) 0.09 2. SV TECHNICIANS AND IFOR (IMPLEMENTATION FORCE) ENGINEERS WORKING IN TRUCK (3 SHOTS) 0.26 3. SV PEOPLE WORKING IN STUDIO (2 SHOTS) 0.36 TUZLA (SEPTEMBER 7, 1996) (RTV ACCESS ALL) 4. GV TUZLA 0.38 5. SV/ ZOOM OUT TRANSMITTERS BEING WIRED TO DISTRIBUTE OPEN BROADCAST NETWORK (OBN) SIGNAL 0.47 6. LV BUILDINGS 0.50 7. SV EDITING MACHINES CONTRIBUTED BY OBN IN STUDIOS AT TV TUZLA/ PEOPLE EDITING PICTURES (3 SHOTS) 1.07 SARAJEVO (SEPTEMBER 7, 1996) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 8. SV PARTY AT OBN HEADQUARTERS AS STATION GOES ON AIR (3 SHOTS) 1.18 9. SLV/SV PEOPLE WATCHING IN THEIR HOME (4 SHOTS) 1.35 TUZLA (SEPTEMBER 7, 1996)(RTV - ACCESS ALL)(QUALITY AS INCOMING) 10. PAN CROWDS AT RALLY FOR SDA (BOSNIAN MOSLEM PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC ACTION) PARTY 1.46 11. SV SUPPORTERS WAVE FLAGS AND BANNERS 1.50 12. SCU BOSNIAN VICE PRESIDENT EJUP GANIC ADDRESSES CROWD (SERBO-CROAT) 2.07 13. SV SUPPORTERS WAVE SDA FLAGS 2.09 SARAJEVO (SEPTEMBER 7, 1996)(RTV ACCESS ALL) 14. LV/SV SDA SUPPORTERS ARRIVING FOR RALLY AT HALL IN ILIZDA SUBURB OF SARAJEVO (3 SHOTS) 2.25 15. LV SDA SUPPORTERS WAVING FLAGS 2.29 16. SV POP SINGER ENTERTAINING CROWD 2.36 17. SV NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION (NATO) IMPLEMENTATION FORCE (IFOR) SOLDIER WATCHING 2.39 18. LV SDA SUPPORTERS WAVING FLAGS 2.43 NEAR SARAJEVO (SEPTEMBER 8, 1996)(RTV(W) ACCESS ALL) 19. LV NATO IMPLEMENTATION FORCE SOLDIERS ON GUARD OUTSIDE ORGANISATION FOR SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE (OSCE) WAREHOUSE WHERE BALLOT PAPERS ARE STORED 2.46 20. LV NATO IFOR SOLDIERS AND LOCAL POLICE HAVE DISCUSSION AT SCENE OF SHOOTING 2.54 21. SV LOCAL BOSNIAN POLICE AT SCENE 2.58 22. LV UKRAINIAN ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIER SERVING WITH NATO IFOR ON GUARD NEAR SCENE OF SHOOTING 3.03 23. SLV UKRAINIAN SOLDIER ON ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIER (APC) 3.06 24. LV JEEP DRIVES PAST THE UKRAINIAN APC 3.16 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
- Embargoed: 22nd September 1996 13:00
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- Location: SARAJEVO AND TUZLA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
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- Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Reuters ID: LVA5NVQAM8XFCVJ4WQ413B4KXLJV
- Story Text: INTRO: A new, internationally funded, independent television service hits the airwaves in Bosnia as election rallies take place throughout the country. But tension remains after a NATO soldier guarding a warehouse filled with ballot papers was shot dead in Sarajevo.
The new television service, called the Open Broadcast Network (OBN) went on air for the first time on Saturday (September 7) night at 8 p.m.
Its aim is to provide Bosnian citizens with news and information free of political bias.
Journalists and technicians scrambled to choose stories for the first news bulletin and frantically wired studio cameras, lights and editing machinery. The night's coverage included amateurish news reporting and a Tina Turner concert.
The launch of OBN, dubbed "Bildt-TV" by Bosnians after High Representative Carl Bildt who founded the project, has been delayed time and again because of political and technical problems.
In the Bosnian Federation, the license for the project was granted late by officials fearful of competition to state-controlled media.
In the Bosnian Serb Republic, the project has been ignored almost entirely by an administration which tightly controls its media. People there will have to specially tune their televisions because state television has refused to carry it.
The OBN, funded in large part by billionaire philanthropist George Soros, will be aired on five local independent television stations across the Bosnian Federation.
Meanwhile, more than 20,000 supporters of the ruling Moslem nationalist Party of Democratic Action (SDA) took part in a rally in Tuzla on Saturday (September 7).
The crowd waved the party's green and white flags and sang patriotic songs and anthems.
Bosnian Vice President Ejup Ganic and Bosnian Prime Minister Hasan Muratovic were amongst the speakers.
Ganic told Reuters that he had studied politics in the United States and was looking to create a Western-type democracy within Bosnia.
Another SDA rally was held in the Sarajevo suburb of Ilidza, where about about 2,000 supporters gathered in one fo the city's crumbling sports halls.
Ilidza was the scene of bitter fighting and was controlled by the Bosnian Serbs for much of the war. It was ceded back to the Bosnian government under the Dayton accord.
Countrywide elections have been set for September 14 under the terms of the 1995 Dayton peace agreement which ended 43 months of fighting.
And a Ukrainian soldier was killed on Saturday after gunmen opened fire on three Ukrainian soldiers on sentry duty at a Sarajevo warehouse full of elections material.
NATO spokesman Major Brett Boudreau said the 12:30 a.m. (2230 GMT) attack occurred after the Ukrainians illuminated the warehouse area with a searchlight from their armoured vehicle to check out indications of intruders.
The Ukrainian soldier was evacuated to a nearby Implementation Force (IFOR) hospital, but was pronounced dead half an hour later.
His identity was being withheld pending notification of his family.
The two other Ukrainian soldiers were not injured in the incident and no assailants were apprehended.
IFOR troops began guarding the building a week ago after election supplies were stored there.
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