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Bloodshed in Bihac: 11 Wounded, 7 Dead

Bloodshed in Bihac Rocks Truce Toledo Blade, p.2 16 January 1995. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — With a new escalation of fighting in northwest Bosnia, a U.N.-brokered truce seemed dangerously close to collapse yesterday without clearing the first of many hurdles. … Continue reading

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Croatian Serbs Cross-Border Attack Bihac in Bosnia

Serbs from the so-called “demilitarised” zone of the self-declared Republic of Serbian Krajina in Croatia are engaging in cross-border attacks against the besieged Bosniak enclave of Bihac. Croatian President called on NATO to bomb Serbs. The top U.N. official in … Continue reading

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The Bihac Massacre Claimed at Least 1,547 Lives

By Dzenita Dzumbur BIRN — For the past 18 years, residents of Ljutocka dolina, near the northwest city of Bihac, have been in a restless pursuit of the truth about crimes committed in that area, hoping the judicial authorities will … Continue reading

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Croatian Serbs Cluster-Bomb Bihac, 1 Killed, 4 injured

Serbs Scorn Longer Truce, Bomb Bihac The Spokesman-Review, p.A9 30 April 1995. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Serb jets dropped two cluster bombs on the embattled Bihac region of northwestern Bosnia Saturday, killing one person and wounding four, U.N. officials said. … Continue reading

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Serbs Threaten Civilians, 4 Killed in Bihac Attack

Star-News, p.7A 15 January 1995. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnian Serb gunmen threatened Saturday to shoot any civilians traveling on a re-opened supply route across Sarajevo airport, a move the U.N. Protection Force denounced as “outrageous” and likely to imperil a … Continue reading

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Child Killed, Two Others Hurt in Serb Attack on Bihac

New Sunday Times, p.24 15 December 1994. ZAGREB, Wed. — A four-year-old girl was killed and two other civilians wounded by a mortar bomb fired into the Bosnian town of Bihac, a UN “safe area” besieged by Serb forces, the … Continue reading

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Croatian Serbs Move Heavy Weapons to Bosnia

Gainesville Sun, p.8A 1 July 1994. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Serbs pulled heavy weapons out of U.N.-monitored storage in Croatia and moved some tanks into neighboring Bosnia, a U.N. official said Thursday. The report fed fears of an escalation in … Continue reading

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UN Fails to Stop Serb Strangulation of Bosniak Enclave of Bihac

Time to go: UN fails Bosnia Wednesday, December 7, 1994 Green Left Weekly, issue 170 By Frank Enright The emperor has no clothes. The sham of the West’s so-called peacekeeping operation in Bosnia has been finally stripped bare with the … Continue reading

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Croatian Serbs Attack Bihac with Napalm and Cluster Bombs

Pressure on Serb Rebels Stepped Up Sunday Star-News, front page 20 November 1994. UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Anxious to stop Serb attacks on the “safe zone” of Bihac in northwest Bosnia, the Security Council on Saturday authorized NATO to bomb … Continue reading

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12 Bosniaks killed, 48 Injured in Serbian Attack on Civilians

The Deseret News 23 September 1992. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Nine people were killed in a Serb artillery attack on a hospital in Bihac in northeast Bosnia and three died when a tank shell hit a Red Cross soup kitchen in … Continue reading

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Fikret Abdic’s Media Creates Fear After the Fall of Velika Kladusa

BACKGROUND: During the Bosnian War, Bosniak politician Fikret Abdic collaborated with the Serb rebels in Croatia and Bosnia against his own people. He founded a short-lived and unrecognized “Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia” consisting of several square kilometres. *** Breakaway … Continue reading

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Bihac: Croatia Threatens Intervention After the Fall of Srebrenica

Battle for Bihac Triggers Renewed War Lodi News-Sentinel, p.22 27 July 1995. ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — The battle raging south of here around the Bosnian enclave of Bihac threatens to ignite renewed war in Croatia and a wider regional conflict. … Continue reading

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