From: stojanov@husc11.harvard.edu (Milan Stojanovic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna
Subject: UN Leaders Called Targets, WAS: Re: Serbian excuses
Date: 27 Dec 92 22:56:27 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

There is an interesting article from NYT at the end of this posting.

In article <1992Dec27.175941.7253@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>
>We will never understand what you are fighting for. (And even less
>if you insist on digging up old mud.) Never. And, frankly, we don't
>give a gamn. We think you Serbs(*) have gone complete bezerk, and
>lost whatever of civilazation you ever had in you. We don't care what
>you are fighting for. Whatever it is, the fighting is not justified.
>We don't want to hear more of your war apologies. We just want you to
>stop. We want peace.

Really?  Then talk to Izetbegovic about cantonization he signed and
then backed away.  The same moment he accepts to fulfil what he 
signed, the war will stop.

>
>>and put equal pressure on all sides to stop fighting and clearly state
>>that Muslims should not hope for military intervention
>
>You mean give Serbs guarantee that it will not occur? No, sir! That
>guarantee you will never get. I am not advocating intervention, but
>the threat should be hanging over you as long as you are slaughtering
>people.

Good, so you are giving reasons to Izetbegovic to hope and prolong 
suffering that he brought upon all people of ex-Bosna and Herzegovina.


>-- 
>Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
>Jag gav en k{ck tjeck en check.

Erland, is this how you see military intervention in Bosnia comming?

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U. N. LEADERS CALLED TARGETS

Bosnia shelling linked to general's opposition to intervention

by John Burns	New York Times		26.dec 92

Sarajevo

	The French commander of the international peace force here said
yesterday that Bosnian government troops were trying to kill the two
top-ranking U.N. officers in the former Yugoslav republics because the
generals strongly oppose Western intervention.

	The commander, Major General Phillipe Morillion, said he saw a
link between mortar attacks Thursday and yesterday on the U.N. head-
quarters and the Security Council debate whether to authorize the
United States and European nations to enforce a ban on military
flights over Bosnia.

	Such enforcement would represent the first Western tactical
military intervention in the Bosnian war, and approval of a resolution
has been delayed by differences over the form that any Western military
action should take.

	As part of a tougher policy prompted by growing evidence of
Serbian atrocities, Washington is seeking authorization to shoot down
Serbian military aircraft. But Britain and France, which provide about
half the 7500 member U.N. force in the area, are concerned that such
attacks could lead to retaliation on the ground.

	These doubts have been reinforced by positions taken by the
co-chairmen of a joint United Nations-European Community peace
conference on the Yugoslav region, former Secretary of State Cyrus
Vance and Lord Owen of Britain. They have said they want more time
for negotiations in Geneva with the Serbian leaders.

	Strong opposition to battlefield intervention has also been
expressed by the U.N. command in Sarajevo, a point made strongly by
Morillion yesterday at a news conference called to mark the visit of
General Satish Nambiar of India, overall commander of the 21500 
member U.N. force in the Balkan republics.

	The generals said they have argued within the U.N. system
against any form of military intervention on the ground that it could
bog down the West in a long war with high casualties.

	Nambiar said that advocates of intervention should recognize
that it would no longer be possible to escort relief supplies to
Sarajevo once Western military action was taken against the Serbs.

	Morillion described the Bosnians' mortar blasts as a "deliberate
attack" aimed at killing Nambiar and himself. "They know that Nambiar
and I have been resisting military intervention," he said.

	Morillion said there was "no doubt" that the mortars that
struck outside the U.N. villa had been fired from an area of Sarajevo
that is under the control of the Bosnian defenders.

	He said U.N. observers had confirmed that the mortars were
fired from positions near the Miljacka River in the city center, close
to Grbavica, a district controlled by Serbian forces. "They are not
stupid, these people," Morillion said, adding that the firing 
positions were taken so that the Serbs would be blamed.

	He said the more dangerous of the two attacks, which occurred
at breakfast time Thursday, had forced him and Nambiar to take shelter
in a sandbagged storage room. One soldier from Britain was lightly
wounded. But Morillion said the three 82 mm mortar rounds, two of
which struck within 20 feet of the villa, could have had far worse
consequences.

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Milan N. Stojanovic