BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPERS ESCORT SERBS OUT OF SARAJEVO TO SAFETY IN SERBIA.

Record ID: 649463

  • Title: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPERS ESCORT SERBS OUT OF SARAJEVO TO SAFETY IN SERBIA.
  • Date: 8th November 1993
  • Summary: SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (NOVEMBER 8, 1993) GV PAN PEOPLE WAITING AT BUS STATION 0.08 GVS/SVS WOMEN AND CHILDREN WAITING (6 SHOTS) 0.40 BCU TILT UP OLD MAN SMOKING CIGARETTE 0.52 CU YOUNG WOMAN SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 1.01 GVS/SVS PEOPLE WAITING TO BOARD BUSES (4 SHOTS) 1.30 SV UNITED NATIONS SOLDIERS IN CROWD 1.33 GV MAN CLOSING DOOR OF BUS 1.37 GVS SVS BUSES LEAVING IN UN CONVOY (5 SHOTS) 2.11 GVS BUSES ON ROUTE IN UN CONVOY (2 SHOTS) 2.31 TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE 4, YOUNG WOMAN : "ALL I CAN DO IS TRY TO GO, ITS SO HARD"
  • Embargoed: 23rd November 1993 12:00
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  • Location: SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
  • Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Topics: Conflict,General,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA7PDN4HL22QGJ3FY21DKSMLOZR
  • Story Text: United Nations (U.N.) peacekeepers began to escort Serbs from Sarajevo to safety in Serbia on Monday (November 8) as part of an agreement allowing 1,500 Croat, Moslem and Serb civilians to leave the besieged Bosnian capital.
    Reporters saw about 100 people leave aboard two buses heading for Bosnian Serb-held territory outside the city on the first stage of their journey to Belgrade.
    The evacuation was to have begun on Saturday (November 6) but was held up because roads in Sarajevo were blocked during an operation by the mainly Moslem Bosnian government army to disband a Bosnian Croat military formation.
    A total of 642 Serbs were due to leave for Belgrade. The remaining evacuees were going to Split or Dubrovnik on Croatia's Adriatic coast.
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