Word: visoko
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Dates: during 1994-1994
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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...