Word: visoko
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deception rather than surprise. Most of the military experts watching last week's offensive take shape confessed that they were confused. One of them, Canadian Lieut. Colonel Daniel Redburn, had a particularly close vantage point. He was bottled up with his detachment of peacekeepers at a U.N. base in Visoko that had been blockaded and mined by Bosnian-government troops. He could see smoke and explosions rising from a battle a couple of miles away but could only guess at their significance. "Is that a bluff?" he asked. "Do they want to get to Sarajevo? Is that the aim?" Then...
...role around Sarajevo, the Serbs started using several hundred artillery pieces and mortars the U.N. had placed under guard at collection points around Sarajevo. What came as a surprise last week was that Bosnian government forces joined so eagerly in the abuse of UNPROFOR. They shelled and blockaded Visoko, where Canadians were posted, and disarmed a Russian unit at a U.N. observation post in the suburb of Mojmilo, south of the capital. At the same time, government troops emulated the Serbs by retrieving 42 mortars and artillery pieces from a U.N. weapons-collection station...
There was nothing unique about the Muslim sniper's bullet that seriously wounded a Serb or the U.N. soldiers' response, a radioed request to their base in Visoko for medical evacuation of the injured...
Sergeant Jacques Beaulieu and 10 fellow Canadian blue berets were manning a checkpoint and bunker at a bridge on the recently opened road between Sarajevo and Visoko, 20 miles northwest of the Bosnian capital. Seven feet away was a Serbian checkpoint; across the valley, about 100 yards off, other Canadians were posted near a similar post manned by Muslim troops of the Bosnian army. With minor variations, the arrangement is common along the battle lines throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina...
...operations center, we had three choices," said Captain George Petrokilis, 34, assistant operations officer of the 12th Canadian Armored Regiment base in Visoko. "Bringing him across the line of confrontation to us wasn't going to fly. We couldn't send the vehicle on the bridge because that would leave our guys without one. So we cranked up an ambulance from our hospital here to take him to the Serb field station in Ilijas...