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...first French reinforcements landed in Bosnia last week. A flight of helicopters lifted 60 Foreign Legionnaires and six heavy mortars off warships in the Adriatic and set them down in a heavily wooded area on Mount Igman, a strategic height overlooking Sarajevo. The platoon quickly moved into position to support a French infantry battalion that had been under attack by Bosnian Serbs...
TheBosnian army attacked Serb forces surrounding Sarajevoin the first stage of an attempt to lift the siege of the city. Government troops moved into the Serb-held town of Ilijas, 12 miles north of Sarajevo, and attacked Serb troops surrounding it. Shouting through bullhorns, Serb officers called desperately for reservists to help fight the 15,000 government troops beseiging their positions. "The whole region is in flames," said one Serb officer, adding that the Serb lines were holding "for now." In Sarajevo, state radio ordered citizens to stay indoors and equip shelters with food and water in preparation...
...freckled 26-year-old physicist from Toulouse, Grouzelle serves with one of the three French battalions deployed in Sarajevo. On this particular morning his thoughts are with the 51 members of the unit who were taken hostage by Bosnian Serbs six days before. "I don't know any of them personally," he says, "but I think a lot about them. I believe they must feel very unprofessional...
During his first week of duty, Grouzelle served at a checkpoint along the line where Serbs and Muslims face off nine miles south of Sarajevo. The peacekeepers drew the fury of both. "In front of me were Serbs, behind me Bosnians," he recalls. "And you just knew that if they wanted to shoot, they could." Once, a mortar round landed less than 70 ft. from his vehicle. Under the rules of engagement, he could do nothing...
...similar restrictions hold back the Serbs, who have delighted in turning much of Sarajevo into something like a shooting gallery at an amusement park. "The Serbs always shoot at us," says Colonel Alain Ferrand, commander of the 100 French soldiers who protect the Sarajevo airport, five miles from Grouzelle's barracks. "Every time we go to the runway or other exposed places, we get a few bullets. Usually they hit the ground 1 or 2 m [3 or 6 ft.] in front of us. And they love to shoot at night. God knows why." Ferrand says the morale...