From: malenovi@plains.NoDak.edu (Malenovic Nikola V.)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna
Subject: killed UN soldiers (Re: Bosnia's recent successes)
Date: 15 Sep 92 21:44:08 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <9ed.fankk@lab.ntt.jp> farzin@apollo3.apollo3.ntt.JP (Farzin Mokhtarian) writes:
 >In article <1992Sep9.070527.3361@sci.kun.nl> bartjan@cs.kun.nl (Bart-Jan Bouwers) writes:
 > #It seems that the last success was the killing of 2 French UN soldiers.
 > #Bart-Jan

 >But I heard on the news that it was *not* clear who shot the French UN soldiers.
 >  - Farzin Mokhtarian

well, what you heard was an newspaper duck based on the *unofficial*
*internal* memo of UN staff (very unreliable compared to the story of the
French soldiers who were right on the spot, wouldn't you say?). But then
again, people are strange, they believe in things that suits them... (not
that I am any exception to this rule...)

anyway, for those with short memory or with wish for distorision of the
facts, here is a re-post.

Nik
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[ re-posted from SCY ]

From plains!plains.NoDak.edu!malenovi Tue Sep 15 16:33:36 CDT 1992
[ re-posted from SII w/o premission ]
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Subject: French say gunfire against soldiers came from Bosnian zone
Date: 9 Sep 92 09:59:44 GMT

	PARIS (UPI) -- The French Defense Ministry Wednesday said machine-gun
fire that killed two French United Nations peacekeeping troops near the
Sarajevo airport came from a zone held by Bosnian forces.
	``The logistic convoy coming from Belgrade was hit by light-infantry
fire and grenades as it entered a zone held by Bosnian forces south of
the Sarajevo airport,'' a ministry statement said.
	The statement labeled the two dead soldiers ``victims of a deliberate
attack, and of a manifest provocation by persons wanting to make war,
and who are enormously bothered by the prospects of peace.''
	Military officers on the scene said Tuesday's attack appeared
deliberate, because it lasted for about five minutes.
	The slain troops, identified as Frederic Vaudet, 28, and Eric Marot,
21, died from bullet wounds to the head, even though they wore
protective United Nations blue helmets, the ministry said.
	Three other French soldiers suffered slight injuries in the attack.
	The latest bloodshed raised the total number of U.N. peacekeepers
killed in Sarajevo to four. Some 46 other U.N. soldiers have also been
injured.
	Last week, four Italian pilots also died when someone shot down their
relief plane as it approached Sarajevo airport.
	Italian authorities initially claimed the craft had been deliberately
targeted by Serbian forces, who allegedly fired two surface-to-air
missiles at it.
	But Wednesday, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported officials now
speculate the plane might have flown into the middle of a fight between
Serbian and Bosnian forces.
	In the wake of the tragedy, U.N. officials in Sarajevo said they
considered a resumption of humanitarian flights unlikely in the
foreseeable future.
	On Tuesday, U.N. Secretary General Butros Ghali said he agreed ``in
principle'' with the idea of providing military air support for
humanitarian flights, but said such a step would require a U.N. Security
Council resolution.