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UN Implies Muslims Deliberately Shelled Own Civilians
by Joel Brand The London Times November 11, 1994
Troops of Bosnia's mainly Muslim government shelled a Sarajevo residential area under their control, the United Nations has suggested, as a fierce Serb counter-offensive against Bihac continued yesterday, with Serb forces retaking some ground around the northwestern enclave.
In Sarajevo, Lieutenant-Colonel Jacques Lechevallier of the UN said that he had investigated three mortar shells which hit Sarajevo on Tuesday; one was determined to have been fired by the Serbs and the other two came from within the government-held part of the city. Although UN officers refused to draw conclusions, the unspoken implication at a UN presentation of the crater analysis yesterday morning was that members of the Bosnian army had deliberately shelled their own people to increase international sympathy.
The UN condemned Wednesday's air strike by Croatian Serbs on the town of Bihac and accompanying artillery fire. About 14 residents in the ''safe area'' were wounded. Bosnian radio claimed ten civilians were killed. Thant Myint-U, a UN spokesman, called the air raid and involvement by Serb forces from a neighbouring country ''the most serious threat in recent months against any future success of the peace process in Bosnia-Herzegovina''.
In February, a single mortar shell killed 68 Sarajevans in a market place, precipitating Nato's ultimatum to the Serb gunners on mountains around the city. A shell that the UN determined was fired by the Serbs, and which landed in the same neighbourhood on Tuesday, killed two children and a woman and wounded a number of others. The two shells fired from a Bosnian army-controlled area wounded a young boy. A UN official condemned the ''stupidity'' of the attacks. ''It just reinforces the Unprofor (United Nations Protection Force) line that everyone is equally bad.''
Serbs 'Not Guilty' of Massacre
by Hugh McManners The London Times October 1, 1995
British ammunition experts serving with the United Nations in Sarajevo have challenged key ''evidence'' of the Serbian atrocity that triggered the devastating Nato bombing campaign which turned the tide of the Bosnian war.
The experts, who examined the scene of the market massacre in Sarajevo in August, say they found no evidence that Bosnian Serbs had fired the lethal mortar round. They suspected the Bosnian government army might have been responsible.
They say French analysts who also examined the scene agreed with them. But they were overruled by a senior American officer, and the UN issued a statement saying it was beyond any doubt that the Bosnian Serbs were responsible for the blast, in which 37 people were killed and 90 wounded.
The carnage was used as the pretext for Nato's huge air campaign against the Bosnian Serbs, which was followed by extensive battlefield losses, and forced the Serbs to the negotiating table.
Senior Official Admits to Secret U.N. Report on Sarajevo Massacre
Deutsche Presse-Agentur June 6, 1996
New York - For the first time, a senior U.N. official has admitted the existence of a secret U.N. report that blames the Bosnian Moslems for the February 1994 massacre of Moslems at a Sarajevo market.
Yasushi Akashi, the Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and the former head of the U.N. mission in Bosnia, told the German Press Agency dpa that the secret report is "no secret."
An international outcry over the massacre, in which 68 civilians perished at Markale marketplace, led directly to a toughening of Western policy towards the Serbs, who were widely blamed for the incident.
by Joel Brand
The London Times
November 11, 1994
Troops of Bosnia's mainly Muslim government shelled a Sarajevo residential area under their control, the United Nations has suggested, as a fierce Serb counter-offensive against Bihac continued yesterday, with Serb forces retaking some ground around the northwestern enclave.
In Sarajevo, Lieutenant-Colonel Jacques Lechevallier of the UN said that he had investigated three mortar shells which hit Sarajevo on Tuesday; one was determined to have been fired by the Serbs and the other two came from within the government-held part of the city. Although UN officers refused to draw conclusions, the unspoken implication at a UN presentation of the crater analysis yesterday morning was that members of the Bosnian army had deliberately shelled their own people to increase international sympathy.
The UN condemned Wednesday's air strike by Croatian Serbs on the town of Bihac and accompanying artillery fire. About 14 residents in the ''safe area'' were wounded. Bosnian radio claimed ten civilians were killed. Thant Myint-U, a UN spokesman, called the air raid and involvement by Serb forces from a neighbouring country ''the most serious threat in recent months against any future success of the peace process in Bosnia-Herzegovina''.
In February, a single mortar shell killed 68 Sarajevans in a market place, precipitating Nato's ultimatum to the Serb gunners on mountains around the city. A shell that the UN determined was fired by the Serbs, and which landed in the same neighbourhood on Tuesday, killed two children and a woman and wounded a number of others. The two shells fired from a Bosnian army-controlled area wounded a young boy. A UN official condemned the ''stupidity'' of the attacks. ''It just reinforces the Unprofor (United Nations Protection Force) line that everyone is equally bad.''
Serbs 'Not Guilty' of Massacre
by Hugh McManners
The London Times
October 1, 1995
British ammunition experts serving with the United Nations in Sarajevo have challenged key ''evidence'' of the Serbian atrocity that triggered the devastating Nato bombing campaign which turned the tide of the Bosnian war.
The experts, who examined the scene of the market massacre in Sarajevo in August, say they found no evidence that Bosnian Serbs had fired the lethal mortar round. They suspected the Bosnian government army might have been responsible.
They say French analysts who also examined the scene agreed with them. But they were overruled by a senior American officer, and the UN issued a statement saying it was beyond any doubt that the Bosnian Serbs were responsible for the blast, in which 37 people were killed and 90 wounded.
The carnage was used as the pretext for Nato's huge air campaign against the Bosnian Serbs, which was followed by extensive battlefield losses, and forced the Serbs to the negotiating table.
Senior Official Admits to Secret U.N. Report on Sarajevo Massacre
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
June 6, 1996
New York - For the first time, a senior U.N. official has admitted the existence of a secret U.N. report that blames the Bosnian Moslems for the February 1994 massacre of Moslems at a Sarajevo market.
Yasushi Akashi, the Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and the former head of the U.N. mission in Bosnia, told the German Press Agency dpa that the secret report is "no secret."
An international outcry over the massacre, in which 68 civilians perished at Markale marketplace, led directly to a toughening of Western policy towards the Serbs, who were widely blamed for the incident.
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