(2 Jun 1996) Eng/Serbo-Croat/Nat
While Bosnian, Croat and Serb officials meet with world leaders in Geneva to discuss the Dayton peace accords, tensions continue in Bosnia.
Over 20 Muslims were wounded when a crowd of Bosnian Serbs began throwing stones at a bus, wounding up to 20 people.
While the leaders of the former Yugoslavia meet in Geneva to discuss the Dayton peace accords, tensions continue in Bosnia.
Passengers on a bus were held up at an I-FOR checkpoint just before crossing into a Serb-held area.
Muslim refugees were trying to cross the former confrontation line when at least 100 Serbs began stoning their buses crossing a pontoon bridge.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Two buses were going to visit the graveyards in two villages in Serbian area and after the fist visit, a successful visit where the police guaranteed and secured their safety they went off to visit another graveyard and then they were hit by stones from local Serbian population, they threw stones at the buses.
SUPER CAPTION: Voxpop, I-FOR Soldier
Passengers were angry with the event as their journey had been interrupted with the violence.
SOUNDBITE: (Serbo Croat)
We are civilians and see what happened to us. We tried to go to villages Potocani and Sevarlije.
SUPER CAPTION: Voxpop
SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat)
We should have gone to Potocani and Sevarlije and then there was a kid who threw a stone at us and the stone fell over there and then I got it on my head.
SUPER CAPTION: Voxpop
Over 20 Muslims were wounded when a crowd of Bosnian Serbs began throwing stones at a bus, wounding up to 20 people.
Up to 20 people were wounded by the stoning in Pridjel in the Doboj region, controlled by Bosnian Serbs.
SOUNDBITE:
People started throwing stones at the buses and then the bus next to the side actually managed to visit the graveyard without any troubles
and then on the way back there was quite a few people throwing stones at the buses. I mean the buses, I mean all the windows are broken.
SUPER CAPTION: UNHCR information officer, Anne Mete Philipsen
IPTF (International police) and IFOR were present but were unable to stop the violence.
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