Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 1, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 free june 1995 in soldiers Fate unclear hostages Well serb captors but official investigations blocked by Julijana mojsilovic associated press Bosnia Herzegovina television footage of in sol Diers chained to potential tar gets of nato bombs have shocked the world and shaped its response to the latest crisis in Little is known of the conditions in which Many of the 370 or so hos tages including 55 canadians Are now being bosnian serbs assure the West that most Are con fined under close guard where they Are allowed to work and eat the same food As their visits by permitted to see the hostages in Only a Iso lated appear to con firm the serbs assurances that the hostages Are not being six British peacekeepers detained in a Hospital were not under armed guard when an associated press re Porter visited them on and 21 French soldiers held South of Sarajevo were eating food cooked by their own chef when an Apt Crew saw them on but official attempts to Check on the hostages conditions have been blocked and most of what a concerned world knows of the captives is from their serbs yesterday refused to allow the International red Cross to Check on the hostages and the United nations says it does not even know where All of its personnel Are being Aleksa foreign minister of the self styled bosnian serb govern said the red Cross will be permitted to visit the captives but i dont know Many of the hostages from More than a dozen nations Are being held at bosnian serb Barracks scattered across the Republic or at Sites where the peacekeepers had guarded serb heavy bosnian serb officials say theres no reason to fear any of the hostages Are in they say the captives generally eat the same food As their usually Beans with mashed and that higher officers Are Given a Brand of cigarettes of their own French Premier Alain Juppe said he has been assured that hostages Are no longer being held in Apt visited 21 French Blue Hel a swede and a Dane at a bosnian serb Barracks in South of i dont know whats going to Hap its above said danish Jack Brandt he and swedish Michael Calm Hede were sharing a the 21 French soldiers were being peacekeepers held hostage in Bosnia the bosnian serbs have detained 370 in peacekeepers in response to nato air raids and refused to allow the red Cross Access to the hostages held near Sarajevo o Uljas 8 canadians q Sularska 14 French o 11 ukrainians q us Dolce 13 russians Lukavics 40 French o Nedz Arici 10 French 0 Krupac 10 French Ildza 32 ukrainians believed taken to Pale Oslek 21 French Bare 18 French believed taken to Pale q Rajkovac 20 French believed taken to Vogos Caj o Polzine 21 French 0 Vranja 10 French believed taken to Lukavics o Presa 9 russians Ovid Kovaci 12 russians serb demands c no further nato air attacks on serb Sarajevo and five other unsafe zones be in must prevent illicit arms shipments to the bosnian no More Unel ser held Croatia d bosnian serb government croat federation Are being held in other areas of backs Effort to bolster peacekeepers source up Rotor kept in another eating food cooked by their own and whiling away the hours by watching Tele Reading books and playing table the bosnian serb foreign said All prisoners would be castello but Only if the United nations promises that nato will cease attacking serb one bosnian serb who demanded said the sol Diers will All be killed if there is any military action by the associated press Paris Premier Alain Juppe announced yesterday that France would Host a weekend meeting of nato and european de Fence officials aimed at giving More muscle to beleaguered in peace keepers in Bosnia whose situation is addressing Juppe said that peacekeepers held hostage by bosnian serbs were no longer in chains and were not being Mal but the majority of those who were taken prisoner or who were encircled remain so at this the Premier the Situa Tion remains Juppe said defence minister Charles Millon has asked counterparts from the european Union and the North Atlantic treaty organization to come to Paris saturday to work out Concrete arrangements to strengthen the position of in sol thirteen nations were invited to the according to a defence ministry including the United Ger Italy and it said the meeting was aimed at Fine tuning plans set out by the sons since 1909 to the general Public this Friday to get saturday 106 for what May Well be e biggest 2 Day event Ever to be held by any furniture retailer in Canada see fridays paper for All the amazing nato and the five nation Contact Juppe said the freeing of five French peacekeepers held hostage and the evacuation of seven others were positive Points in an otherwise Bleak situation that needs to reacting to a nato air strike last took up to 370 in personnel hostage As insurance against further Juppe said that 92 of those being held were fifty five canadians Are also being reacting to the Britain sent More soldiers to the France dispatched an aircraft Carrier and Western nations held a flurry of meetings in an Effort to Salvage the situation before nations like France decide to withdraw their Juppe revealed that 500 elite soldiers were aboard the Carrier Foch in the along with Jet fighters and France and Britain cannot alone carry on the indispensable Effort to bolster in troops in Juppe appealing for european with and with have the two largest Contin gents in Brave Soldier awarded rare double Honor Canadian press Ottawa Tom Hoppe has become the first Soldier since the second world War to receive two of Canadas top Mili tary awards for exceptional Brav who is based in Cal was Given the awards yester Day for his service in Bosnia last the medal of bravery was awarded for an incident last August in which Hoppe engineered the res Cue of three Muslim children play ing near a the cemetery was being strafed from serb snipers at the Hoppe also received the meritorious service Cross for actions he took while commanding a key Obser 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