(12 Apr 1995) Natural Sound
Fighting has intensified between Bosnian government forces and rebel Serbs around the Majevica hills 80 kms north-east of Sarajevo, near the government-held town of Tuzla.
Bosnian Army and rebel Serb forces are also fighting around the Central Bosnian government-held town of Tesanj, approximately 100 kms north of Sarajevo.
Meanwhile, seven people were injured on Wednesday when at least one mortar shell hit a residential area of downtown Sarajevo.
The fighting near Tuzla is centered around a key communications tower at Majevica. The Bosnian Army claims that fighting is continuing just 500 metres from the communications tower but this cannot be independently confirmed.
The offensive in this area has been going on for three weeks.
Meanwhile, Serb forces near Tesanj are trying to advance from Teslic. It is a strategically important position in the Ozren pocket deep inside a government-controlled area.
Serbs in this region are surrounded with only one way in or out - through the city of Doboj.
Bosnian government troops and Serb soldiers engaged in hand-to-hand fighting Tuesday and the battle continues.
The United Nations has blamed the Serbs for recent mortar attacks on the centre of Sarajevo and has accused them of targeting civilian areas with heavy weapons.
As the shelling continues, a new ban on public gatherings - which even prevents markets from opening - has compounded the suffering of Sarajevo residents trying to eke out a living by selling their wares.
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