Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Monday, 14 Sep 1992 11:54:31 CDT
From: <U15231@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna
Subject: Interview with Dr. Nedzib Sacirbegovic

From BOSNET:

	Interview with Dr. Nedzib Sacirbegovic - personal representative
	of President of Bosnia and Hercegovina, Alija Izetbegovic

	Interview was conducted by phone by our moderator Naim Saiti.

	When asked what he thinks about the last incident in which two
	French soldiers died, Dr. Nedzib Sacirbegovic pointed to an article
	in "The Washington Post", which described the incident in the detail,
	and which reports that the French are also responsible for going into
	the ongoing battle, and for not consulting with Bosnian Presidency,
	which advised UNPROFOR to always announce their actions and not to go
	just before the night when the visibility is low.

	So, you can soon expect that article on Bosnet.

	About Iranian plane:
		-The fight of the peoples of Bosnia and Hercegovina is noble,
	 human, and a lot of people wants in some way to take part in
	that fight, even the forces from the extreme right, with which we
	do not want to be identified.

	On the question what he has to say about the newest charges of
	fundamentalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dr. Nedzib replied with
	indignation:
	- I will have to write You an extensive answer about that topic,c
	for now I can say only that this is an excuse for those who are deeply
	involved in crimes, and would like to say that the other side is like
	that too.
		Do I have to remind You that the first snipers were the
	bodyguards of Radovan Karadzic and Nikola Koljevic, who shot into
	a mass of demonstrators in a quest for peace and killed twentytwo
	year old student - girl from Dubrovnik. They talk about Muslim snipers
	but if you know that the goal of the aggressor is to disrupt the life
	in Sarajevo, the  normality of which Bosnian Government is trying to
	restore, it is clear who is shooting at the innocent civilians in the
	center of Sarajevo. Our snipers are there to try to disable aggressor
	snipers and protect our civilians.
		Aggressors claim that we are the ones killing journalists.
	That is highly improbable having in mind that all of the services
	of old Yugoslavia from TANJUG-news agency, Embassies, diplomatic
	and buisnis representatives, radio and TV stations, satellite and
	telephone connections are completely in the service of the aggressor.
	At the same time we don't have News service, even telephone connection
	not to talk about anything more than that, to present the world the
	truth about the events in Bosnia and Hercegovina. We can only be
	grateful  to the journalists of the World Free Press for being there,
	at the source of the events and reported to the world the facts.
	So they are there to report for us, and because of that we have no
	reason to kill them. They are reporting about us, we don't have anybody
	else to tell the truth to the world.
		Aggressors claim that we are targeting the graveyards, but it
	is well known that the people are buried in the parks and gardens,
	because it was too dangerous to approach the graveyards under constant
	fire from the aggressor.
		And about the "Dzamahirija" (Islamic State), the relations
	with Libya is best described by the statement from "Great Gadafi",
	who suggested that Serbia, Bosnia and Hercegovina and Montenegro
	should unite, which ilustrates his knowledge of the events in our
	country.
At the end Dr. Nedzib wished a lot of luck to the Bosnet, and expressed hope
that soon there will be daily emission of the news from Sarajevo.
					Naim Saiti
Translated by    Iztok Hozo

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