From: bh437292@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Basil Hamdan)
Subject: Re: A propos de l'ex-Yougoslavie et d'un sondage recent.
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 20:55:09 GMT
Reply-To: bh437292@lance.colostate.edu
Organization: Engineering College, Colorado State University

In article <1993Jan9.062606.5158@athena.mit.edu>, hetyei@athena.mit.edu (Gabor Hetyei) writes:
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|> |> Ma reponse est non, pas d' "ordre militaire" en europe, 
|> |> mais la recherche d'une solution pacifique, 
|> |> satisfaisante a long terme, pour tous.
|> 
|>  Le general Morillon partage votre vue tres probablement. Je viens de lire 
|> parmi les nouvelles de UPI que c'etait une voiture francais dont les irreguliers 
|> Serbes ont fait sortir le premier ministre adjoint Bosniaque , M. Hakija Turajlic
|> et que c'etait avant les yeux de ces "protecteurs" francais qu'il a ete 
|> tue. (Vendredi le 8 janvier a 6:15 apres-midi.)
|> 
|>  M. Morillon, a parle d'un "tragedie" qui "met en peril la paix".
|> Je suis emu, tres emu de tout ce pacifisme. Mais alors que les soldats de 
|> l'ONU  s'en vont et ne donnent pas une quasi-legitimite a ce qui se passe en
|> Bosnie.

Oui, Morillon etait tres concerne par l'etat d'ame des miliciens
Serbes, et s'en foutait pas mal du fait qu'il avaient assassine
le depute premier ministre Bosniaque en presence du Colonel Sartre.
Je ne comprends vraiment pas pourquoi  le General Morillon n'ayant 
pas controle les evenements prend tant de peine a defendre les
actions des milices Serbes (Voir a la fin de l'article de l'UPI).

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 	SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (UPI) -- Senior U.N. officers Saturday
 gave their accounts of the assassination of Bosnian Deputy Prime
 Minister Hakija Turajlic by Serbian troops near Sarajevo airport, but
 their versions left several elements of the slaying unclear.
 	The killing occurred early Friday evening after Serbian soldiers
 stopped a French U.N. armored vehicle carrying Turajlic back to the
 center of the Bosnian capital from the airport.
 	Turajlic had been taken to the airport by the U.N. Protection Force
 (UNPROFOR) to speak with a Turkish government delegation that had flown
 in without clearance.
 	Col. Patrice Sartre, the commander of the French U.N. contingent
 deployed at the airport, said that he arrived at the scene to find two
 Serbian armored personnel carriers and 40 to 50 soldiers blocking the
 vehicle carrying Turajlic.
 	``These people immediately surrounded me and complained, stating the
 passenger was Hakija Turajlic, vice prime minister of Bosnia-
 Herzegovina,'' Sartre said. ``They thought we were transporting not only
 him, but some Turkish soldiers.''
 	Sartre said he placed himself before the doors at the rear of the U.
 N. vehicle. Turajlic was inside and the hatch was open.
	``The Serb commander agreed to wait for orders. The tension was down.
 I was negotiating closing the door. Two men tried to push me. One
 stepped back and shot above my shoulder. He was pulled back by his
 commander and comrades, shouting 'No, no. Stop.'''
 	``He got loose and fired again,'' Sartre said.
 	Sartre said the rear door of the vehicle was already open when he
 arrived, allowing the Serbian U.N. liason officer at the scene to
 mediate between Turajlic and the Serbian commander. He said he did not
 know when the hatch was opened, or by whom.
 	A U.N. mission statement, however, said the hatch was opened by the
 Serbs.
	British Capt. Peter Jones, who arrived on the scene with two British
 armored vehicles at 4.45 p.m., and was ordered to leave by Sartre at
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 5:30 p.m., said the hatch was closed during the period while he was
 there.
 	``We were there for 45 minutes, 300 meters from the airport, five
 minutes from the PTT building (UNPROFOR headquarters). As soon as I got
 out with my weapon, with my soldiers carrying weapons, it was something
 they didn't expect. They stood back. During the period (the hatch)
 wasn't open at all.''
 	Jones entered the French vehicle through the driver's door and spoke
 to Turajlic for about two minutes shortly before 5 p.m. He said Turajlic
 was ``very nervous.''
 	``Col. Sartre arrived at 5:20 or so,'' Jones said.
 	French Gen. Philippe Morillon, the republic-wide commander of
 UNPROFOR, and Egyptian Gen. Hussein Ali Abdel Razek, chief of the U.N.
 Sarajevo sector, said more U.N. troops were not sent to the scene
 because it was believed the situation had been resolved.
 	In addition to the two British armored vehicles ordered to iwthdraw,
 two Ukranian armored cars were also reported to have visited the scene
 briefly.
 	Abdul Razek said the incident had initially been treated as ``a
 routine matter.''
 	``I had already sent two liaison officers to the scene. Col. Sartre
 was alrady there. We got the feeling that everything was under control.
 One madman for nothing took the gun and shot inside the APC and
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 committed the crime,'' he said said.
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 	``Bosnia-Herzegovina is afflicted by a human illness: fear of others,
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fear of the other,'' said Morillon. ``It is this fear which took hold of
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 the mind of the (Serb) military commander, who probably sincerely
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 believed that the UNPROFOR armored vehicle was carrying a mass of
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 fanatical fighters who had fallen from the sky in order to menace his
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 men and their homes, and who gave the order for it to be intercepted.''
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 	``It is that fear that gave strength to the arm of the assassin. It
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 is that fear which is feeding all the soldiers in the battles we have
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 not yet managed to bring an end to,'' Morillon said.
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	He called on Bosnians to restrain their anger and not to allow the
 assassination to fuel a new cycle of violence.

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