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In an investigation across six countries, Correspondent has uncovered a series of incidents which has tested the Western Alliance to breaking point.

MOLDESTAD (V/O): "…the Americans were controlling the entire Bosnian air space -- on their own"

ROSE (V/O): "My own office […] was bugged by the Americans."

JOULWAN (V/O): "…how would I know what the State Department or the CIA was doing?"

This is a story about Americans behaving badly. About thousands of un-necessary deaths. About an alliance in crisis.

START WITH STRONG GV BEFORE GOING TO SHEENA IN PICTURE.

(OVERLOOKING SARAJEVO)

"It's five and a half years now since the fighting ended, but the warring parties are far from reconciled. The country is split into two entities – the Republika Srpska and the Bosnian-Croat Federation.

"What's more, this territory is the crucible for a potential split in the Western Alliance, the most serious and fundamental for over half a century."

SCENES OF UN TROOPS DEPLOYING IN BOSNIA

SCENES OF FIGHTING BY LOCAL FORCES

REFUGEES

SHOTS OF NATO AWACS WITH COMBAT AIR PATROL

GENERAL GEORGE JOULWAN IN UNIFORM AT NATO HQ, BRUSSELS

JOULWAN INTERVIEW

That mission was difficult from the start. UNPROFOR was trying to help all three sides in the conflict. But the Serbs, the Croats and the Muslims were continually at each other's throats.

In terms of "peace-keeping", there was no peace to keep.

Former neighbours were "ethnically cleansed" from any territory that changed hands. Lifelong friends became deadly enemies.

And a rift between NATO and the United Nations opened up too.

To stop any further escalation of the war, the UN ordered that all flying -- other than by Western Allies -- was to be banned in Bosnian air-space. NATO agreed to be the enforcer.

JOULWAN: "I took command of Allied Command Europe in October of 1993 and we were involved – NATO – in providing both what we called Deny Flight, which was air cover over Bosnia and responsiveness to UN calls for assistance –air strikes."

NATO is a war-fighting machine dominated by the United States. But the UN was not in Bosnia to fight a war. Perhaps it was inevitable that the tail would start to wag the dog.

"We were by our very presence lowering and diminishing the level of conflict and creating opportunities for some peaceful resolution of that problem, which is what peace-keeping is about."

US FAILURE TO SUPPORT UNPROFOR

GENERAL SIR RUPERT SMITH ARRIVES AT TUZLA AIR BASE BY HELICOPTER

LEHMAN INTERVIEW [RE CASEVAC]

NORDBAT TRAINING EXERCISE

At the same time, President Bill Clinton refused to deploy troops on the ground. The situation was considered just too dangerous for American soldiers.

UNPROFOR was desperately short-handed from the beginning. Two US Army battalions could have solved that problem and may even have hastened the end of the conflict.

But the only real commitment by Washington was a handful of staff officers in UNPROFOR and an field hospital.

The hospital was set up in the relative safety of Croatia. But even that proved to be a commitment with unacceptable conditions.

US reluctance to back UN operations on the ground was beginning to irritate.

LEHMAN: "We had helicopters that could perform medivacs, but what we also needed was a medical team that could take care of… that could go with the helicopters when they were taking out the casualties from the operational theatre and also take them back and treat them on the way.

"We had a medivac team and the American Hospital at Plezo Camp were asked to do that job – it was part of the standard operational procedure. And they should do it – but they refused to do it, because national regulations were against it. And then I had to find somebody else to do that particular difficult and risky job. Which was very sad and was against the rules of the UN.

"Looking at this from a Force point of view, it's very dependent on an efficient medivac team. And if the hospital cannot man a team like that, maybe the only doctor who is left in the theatre will have to take the casualties back to the hospital and there is nobody left. That is what happened on some occasions as well.

"We got some other people to do that job, which the Americans should have done, but blatantly refused to do out of national reasons. So I found another solution. Some Indonesian soldiers were willing to take that risk on behalf of the Americans – and that is how it ended."

ROSE SYNC

Domestic US politics had ruled that a soldier from Britain, France or Pakistan could be left to serve and die in some corner of Bosnia. Such an outcome was preferable to the danger of CNN reporting the death of a soldier from Galveston, Texas.

INTERPRETER: "Everything has been mined… and I can't guarantee your safety…"

OFFICER: "We're prepared to take that risk. That's nothing to do with you!"

ROSE: "They find it very hard politically to put their young man and women in harm's way, even in pursuit of something as justifiable, morally, as creating peace in the Balkans. And they don't circulate amongst the community in the way we are able to do in Britain. And that's a tremendous disadvantage – which they will acknowledge."

And so, not a single American soldier patrolled this hostile terrain.

STOLTENBERG INTERVIEW

ROSE INTERVIEW

EXT GVs US EMBASSY, SARAJEVO

America's spies seemed mostly interested in learning about the activities of the United Nations.

Thorvald Stoltenberg was the UN's Chief Peace Negotiator for much of the conflict. We asked him when he'd first discovered that the Americans were intercepting his telephone calls.

STOLTENBERG: "That I… I guess it must have been in '93, but I cannot say that for sure… No! I believe it must have been in '93."

"I would say I'm used to it. So it didn't come as a shock or a surprise."

This man was surprisingly well-briefed about Stoltenberg's secret talks. Peter Galbraith was the American Ambassador to Croatia.

Of course, if the US had been more pro-active in the peace talks before the Summer of 1995, it might have been un-necessary to tap the private calls of this hard-working elder statesman.

But Stoltenberg wasn't the only intelligence target.

ROSE: "My own office I think probably was bugged by the Americans, I always suspected that and we were always very careful in what we said in that office. And if we did say something, it was with deliberate intent."

Some of the bugging was done by General Rose's neighbours.

The CIA's office in the American Embassy next door was perfectly placed for the use of a laser-beam. This picked up the vibrations made by human voices on Rose's windows.

The Americans even loaned him a military satellite phone which had a bug built into it.

ROSE: "We had an American team sweep my office and, as they left, they said 'Well there are no bugs in your office'. And I said to them 'Except for the ones of course that you left behind.' And they had the good nature to blush."

SHEENA PTC AT EAGLE BASE

RECONSTRUCTION

But "Major" Sands was no soldier. His claim to be a member of America's Airborne elite was undermined when he was seen wearing his airborne wings on the wrong side of his uniform.

An American military source remembers confronting Sands in bar in Sarajevo. Sands told him he was a "contract employee of the CIA".

Guy Sands was expelled from General Rose's head-quarters – only to turn up six months later in Tuzla.

ESTABLISH FROM ARCHIVE: HAUKELAND BEING INTERVIEWED IN 1995

HAUKELAND INTERVIEW

ARCHIVE OF THE "WHITE HOUSE" – SECTOR NE HQ

HAUKELAND SYNC: "Everybody in Tuzla as well as… well, I think the whole of Bosnia knew about the person you are talking about.

"He was actually in my headquarters in Tuzla. He was responsible for the co-operation with the civilian relief organisations, especially with the UNHCR and so on. And he did a tremendous good job there, he was a workaholic.

"I was suspicious of him because he didn't mind his own business. That was the problem. And when you're in a headquarters and people stop minding their own business, you get trouble.

Haukeland complained to Sand's Contingent Commander about his behaviour.

HAUKELAND: "Because criss-crossing… and he's not following the chain of command, which will frustrate his colleagues as well as damaging the system."

When Sands was discovered snooping around Haukeland's intelligence unit it was time again for the Red Card.

HAUKELAND: "All of a sudden he was ordered by his contingent commander who was sitting in Zagreb to show up in Zagreb immediately… because it was too dangerous for the Americans being in Bosnia…"

STOLTENBERG SYNC

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STOLTENBERG: "I never criticised the Americans for saying that this was a European issue what we have in Yugoslavia and should be solved by the Europeans. I understood that.

"My criticism applies to the fact that they did not actually go outside the field and sit down and watch. No! They were standing on the sidelines shouting in to the players."

The scale of America's espionage operations cannot be understated. Hundreds of personnel from the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency were deployed in Bosnia during 1994 and 95.

The US contributed far more spies than infantry – but what UNPROFOR needed was infantry.

Washington wanted it both ways. It had no players on the pitch, but that wasn't going to stop it trying to dictate the outcome of the 'game'.

ARCHIVE NATO AWACS

GVs OF GEILENKIRCHEN AB

BUFF ROLL NUMBER 115

00:43:22 BRIEFING ROOM

They wanted to re-arm and train the Croats and the Muslims and then encourage them to fight an all-out war against the Bosnian Serb Army. "Lift and strike" was totally contrary to the UN mandate and in breach of the Arms Embargo. It was Washington's secret agenda.

Correspondent can reveal that part of the American administration went so far as to manipulate NATO resources in order to re-arm the Bosnian Army -- BiH Army.

BEAT

NATO's primary involvement in the Balkans was Operation Deny Flight – the total ban on all unauthorised flying over Bosnia.

AWACS BRIEFING

The North Atlantic Alliance was particularly well-equipped to perform this task. Operating from high altitude, its E-3 AWACS are able to scan the skies over a huge area.

ON BOARD FOOTAGE WITH REF TO SARAJEVO

The AWACS – code-named "Magic" – always works with two fighters on "Combat Air Patrol". Magic will send them to intercept and check any suspect flights.

But this vital operation was manipulated by the Americans in order to do exactly what it was designed to stop – make covert, embargo-busting flights over Bosnia.

Tape 26 03:04:50 - 03:05:56

LEHMAN SYNC

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MOLDESTAD: "I'm up in Tuzla – I tried once in a while to get up for a weekend with my colleagues and friends for some R&R. It's Friday night and we'd been in the mess hall for dinner and I'm walking out with my CO. It's dark, it's a clear evening. And as we walked out, we faced directly towards Tuzla town.

"And what I see, I see two fighter aircraft, twin engined, lit up like a Christmas Tree – after-burners, nav lights, strobes – everything, flying in circles, over the city… At about 3,000 feet. And this is very strange for me. […] They normally fly at 25,000 or higher. At night, all lights are off, so nobody can see them."

"When I saw this, I saw that something was wrong… […] So I go into the squadron operations centre and I call down to my colleagues in Sarajevo, who is dealing with the fighter planes. I speak to the duty officer who is a good friend of mine, a British Tornado pilot."

"I asked him to confirm friendly over Tuzla… And he says 'Stand by' and he checks his papers and comes back and he says no, nothing flying. NATO is not operating tonight for some reason."

Of course, saying that NATO wasn't flying is not the same as saying the skies are empty.

As Moldestad and his colleagues watched the US Navy's improvised display, they were about to realise that it was no more than a side-show to the main event.

MOLDESTAD: "One of our guards comes running over to me and he goes 'Sir, sir, did you see the other aircraft?' And I said I'm looking at them now. He says 'No, no – the one that came behind here – the big one!.' What do you mean? 'There was a big aircraft coming behind Blue Factory towards Tuzla Air Base. And I asked him if he could identify the aircraft. Anyway, was it a jet aircraft, a propeller aircraft? The only thing he could say was a Hercules-type aircraft. It was slow and flying towards Tuzla Air Base. […] Tuzla Air Base is closed, it's been closed for years."

Word of the incident soon spread rapidly up the UNPROFOR chain of command – to Sarajevo and then on the Zagreb.

LEHMAN SYNC: "I remember one morning in an operation room where a message came in… it must have been in the beginning of February, I believe. But a British officer was on call and he reported a plane that had probably landed at Tuzla Air Base in the middle of the night. And it was very silent afterwards and those who usually spoke up said nothing.

"And the following morning when questions was asked about this there were no comments at all and they said it must have been a misunderstanding.

"But we had no doubt at all that an air drop had taken place in Tuzla. Of course we were not told who did it, but we had our suspicions."

When Moldestad got back to Sarajevo, UNPROFOR's new commander, British Army General Sir Rupert Smith called him to his office.

MOLDESTAD: "He got a bit upset… to say it that way. He ordered me not to talk to anybody about this. He said it's a very serious incident and, if anybody had any queries about it, they were to contact him personally."

SYNC MOLDESTAD

ARCHIVE: VICENZA AB ITALY

EXTRA SYNC MOLDESTAD.

TAPE 026: 03:06:40 -

MAGIC STAND-DOWN

BUFF 115 00:41:55 E-3 LANDING

ARCHIVE FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT (OR SIMILAR) PLUS HAWKEYE AND F-18 OPERATIONS (PREFERABLY AT NIGHT).

MOLDESTAD SYNC

What was scheduled as a routine meeting between NATO and the UN turned out to be a lesson in the arrogance of power.

MOLDESTAD: "We go into the meeting room and… his name was Colonel Cooper. He starts the meeting with something like, you know… 'I wish UNPROFOR would stop seeing all these unidentified flying objects. And I would really like to meet the people that have initiated this bullshit. And it made me a bit angry, so I raised my hand and I told him that I am the one who reported this. And he… appears to be a bit surprised."

Moldestad was told to see the Chief UN Liaison Officer at Vicenza – a Dutch General.

"As I'm in there, Colonel Cooper comes into the office and he says to the general, 'Excuse me, sir, but we need to talk to this officer. And whereupon the Dutch General replies well, can't you see I'm talking to him now? And Cooper grabs my arm and he says, well, I think we are more important than you in this matter. And he leads me out of the office. […]

Moldestad was then interrogated by a group of senior American officers.

"It's quite scary to find yourself in a situation like this. […] What I remember is that I gave them very vague answers to their questions. And I referred them to General Rupert Smith. […]

"As I walk down the corridor, I meet another UN officer, a Norwegian one, who, as I pass him, puts a piece of paper down inside my jacket, and he's looking a bit distressed about it. He said 'Read it on the aircraft on your way home.' And I tried to reach for it and he said 'Not now! […] Don't take it out before you are on the aircraft."

"As we take off I take out this piece of paper and it is NATO's flying programme for the 10^th of February, Friday the 10^th of February. It's a classified document. Where he's got it from I have absolutely no idea. But I'm sure he was not meant to have it."

The document records that, at 5pm, "Magic" had been stood down.

It was replaced by a US Navy E-2 Hawkeye, a smaller, carrier-borne AWACS.

This was not "Magic" – this was manipulation.

One hour later, two F-18s took off from the same American carrier.

These were the two, twin-engined fighters seen flying low over Tuzla by Moldestad and his colleagues.

"This indicates to me that, during this incident, this evening, not NATO, but the Americans were controlling the entire Bosnian air space, on their own."

THEN CU KEN, THEN CUs OF THE DOCUMENT

ASTON OUT OF DOCUMENT

Lt Col Christopher Le Hardy got to the heart of the matter when he wrote that:

ASTON: "…the mission was carried out with the consent and support…"

ASTON: "…of the authorities commanding the AWACS and other aircraft in the air at that time."

In other words – the Americans.

KEN OPENING AND READING THE FILE.

REVERSE SHOT TO CU DOCUMENTS

ASTON QUOTES FROM DOCUMENTS

Meanwhile, Cables passed between UN HQ in New York, NATO in Brussels and Vicenza Air Base.

Some of these classified documents have reached Correspondent. We asked Ken Connor to review the file. Connor, a 23-year veteran of the British SAS, is one of the world's leading experts on the planning and execution of covert operations.

USE WIDE SHOT AND HELICOPTER CUT-AWAYS TO EDIT.

COMANCHE BASE EXTERIOR PLUS SIGN

KEN CONNOR AND SHEENA MCDONALD ON COMANCHE BASE AIRSTRIP

ARCHIVE FOOTAGE SHOWING RAF C-130 HERCULES AND LOW-LEVEL AIR DROPS (TRAINING EXERCISE).

Some years ago, that road was taken over by the US Army for helicopter flight operations and re-named "Comanche Base".

On the airstrip, Ken Connor told me how the drops had been carried out.

CONNOR: "About three kilometres down that way there is a lake which is the final navigational marker for the crew. Once they see that, they'll then be able to pick up the drop zone lights.

"They come in at about 400 feet. The stores on the aircraft are on pallets, they are on rollers. And once they hit the lake, they're going to do it, they take the final restraining straps off.

"As the aircraft comes, it's slightly nose-up, its flaps are down, it's making a lot of noise… flying at about 250 knots.

"The drogue 'chute goes, the pallets go, the aircraft picks up speed and disappears.

"But once the pallets hit, the 'chutes break away and drift off, the strobe lights are flickering, the orders are given, the work parties come out to pick up the load and, within a matter of a few short minutes, the area's clear and off they go."

JOULWAN SYNC

JOULWAN: "We had no information that that was taking place – personally. Just to make it clear, that what was coming to me as the Supreme Allied Commander, was that we had no confirmation that this was taking place. […]

"What I was doing had nothing to do with what nothing to do with what the State Department and the CIA was doing."

SADIC AND SHEENA WITH MAP

BACK TO THE LE HARDY REPORT WITH ASTON

STILLS OF BRDJANOVIC IN US ARMY UNIFORM

BRDJANOVIC SYNC

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STILLS FROM BRDJANOVIC'S COLLECTION

ESTABLISHING BRDJANOVIC

INTERVIEW WITH REFIK BRDJANOVIC

Correspondent decided to approach senior Muslim officers and ask them about the drops.

General Hasan Sadic was commander of 2^nd Corps in the Tuzla region until late in 1994. He admitted he had planned the drop zone.

SHEENA: "So were the logistics men based right around the perimeter, or were they based in different parts?"

SADIC: "We had the task of preventing civilians from coming to this location in order to protect them from injury. Secondly, we had to attend these drops regularly at certain locations… and after collecting the cargo, take it to the warehouse."

Sadic could tell us no more about the drops. He was sent to Turkey as Military Attaché.

The UN Sector North-East Report written by Lt Col Le Hardy contained another intriguing piece of information.

ASTON: "At 2025 Alpha an armoured patrol reached the Tuzla Highway Strip…"

ASTON: "Cargo-handling activity was observed…"

ASTON: "Five heavy trucks, BiH personnel and some cargo on the ground was identified by the use of night vision goggles…"

ASTON: "On their way back to the air base, the armoured patrol was fired on by BiH soldiers."

We asked contacts in Tuzla which unit of the BiH Army had attacked the patrol.

They told us to look for the man on the right in these photographs.

Brigadier Refik Brdjanovic, former commander of the Black Wolves Special Forces Unit, was in charge if security for the air drops. It was his soldiers who had shot at the UN patrol.

Concerned about his personal security, Brdjanovic proved difficult to track down.

We finally caught up with him in Switzerland. Brdjanovic confirmed that the Americans organised the covert operation.

BRDJANOVIC: ""I understood that Americans are leading these operations because before any air drops took place there were American planes flying over the region."

Help was at hand on the ground, too.

BRDJANOVIC: "When we were off-loading these aircraft there were civilians who were talking English. I do not know if they were Americans but they were speaking English."

BACK OF HEAD INTERVIEW WITH PER KJELL

GREEN-BOX RECONSTRUCTION

PER KJELL: "I found a nice place to stop in front of… I would say it was a big garage with two… or maybe it was three doors at the front, and there was a good place to park outside.

"So I stopped the car there and got out and… around the corner to 'do my thing'. There was a small door and the door opened. Inside there I saw three guys sitting, and I knew them – I'd talked to them and I'd seen them and I knew they were American.

"They were looking into two boxes that were a little bit short of two metres… and since they were sitting on it, it was approximately the height of a chair – 40, 50, maybe 60 centimetres high, and maybe the same width of it. It was green, so it was not an ordinary box, it was some special kind of box.

"And one of them that was nearest me, jumped up and smashed the door in and locked it!"

[TRIM] "[…] I knew these guys. […] I was very confused about why they did that to me." [TRIM]

Six years after the incident, this man still fears for his safety.

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STILL PHOTOGRAPH OF CAMPBELL

JOULWAN SYNC

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20:12:21:00

The boxes contained valuable "Stinger" ground-to-air missiles and anti-tank guided weapons to be used again the superior armour of the Bosnian Serb Army.

Brdjanovic also told us that this man was involved in arranging the covert supply of weapons from Iran. He was the Bosnian Military Attache in the Turkish capital of Ankara.

Gen Hasan Sadic, it seems, had not told us all he knew.

We then asked Brdjanovic to name the most senior American involved in what was called "Operation Rescue".

BRDJANOVIC: "I remember Jim Campbell. Before he came to Bosnia his people were scouting the region for this operation. The name of his assistant was Jack Collins."

Jim Campbell turned out to be Major General James L Campbell of the US Army.

We asked his commanding officer to comment.

JOULWAN: "I don't think he was with NATO. He may have been with the US Army in Europe. But not with NATO."

As well as being commander of NATO, General Joulwan was also commander of all US Forces in Europe. Either way, he was Campbell's boss.

JOULWAN: "I have no idea what his tasking was and… I don't know. You'll have to ask General Campbell."

It seems remarkable that General Joulwan was uninformed about the activities of one of his most senior staff officers.

JOULWAN: "I had no idea he was involved in these covert operations. If he was involved in it, I had no knowledge of it."

Far from ending the conflict, the American "lift and strike" plan poured fuel on the fire.

LEHMAN SET-UP WITH PHOTOS PLUS READING OF UN HRAT REPORT.

"And when it came to the offensive in the Kryina in August, they participated actively in giving air support to those forces. So they were on both sides in a way. They were in the UN systems with the hospital and some staff officers and at the same time they were supporting one of the parties actively and militarily."

Military training was also banned by the UN arms embargo.

The Americans insisted they'd only trained the Croatian Army in human rights.

If so, that training proved ineffective.

LEHMAN: "On the 16^th August 1995, the Sector South HRAT – which is a humanitarian officer – viewed four dead bodies in the village of Zagovic.

"All appeared to have been dead for at least one week. Two of the bodies, both men, by the side of the main highway, both men had bullet holes in their heads."

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REPRISE OF FIGHTING MATERIAL FROM ARCHIVES

RIPLEY: "The Bosnian Army […] lurched from one disaster to the next. It went on the offensive in March, in two places in Central Bosnia, got defeated. It launched a major offensive around Sarajevo in May and got defeated with several thousand casualties. And come June and July […] General Mladic, the commander of the BSA, decided that, if the Bosnians were going to keep on attacking, he was going to strike back and hit the Bosnians in the place they were weakest, the Srebrenica enclave.

"So you could say these air drops were, in military terms, an 'own-goal' in that they gave the Bosnians a false sense of their military power. […] And it back-fired spectacularly on the Bosnians."

Seven thousand men, women and children were massacred at Srebrenica.

ESTABLISH ULRIKSEN END TAPE 22

ULRIKSEN 21:01:54

They were concerned that their allies would learn about the covert operations and mis-use of NATO resources. So they shut down the supply of all satellite reconnaissance photography and signals intelligence – telephone tapping.

Ståle Ulriksen is deputy director of Norway's prestigious Foreign Policy Institute. He is particularly well-informed about intelligence matters.

ULRIKSEN: "It was very provoking because intelligence is one of the main assets in that the Americans bring to NATO. […] Europe has depended on, and chosen to depend on, America for supplying this data… so it was an incredible provoking act to stop it.

SHEENA: And this was influenced by what was happening in Bosnia?

ULRIKSEN: "Probably… Of course! Definitely!"

The black-out even applied to countries with whom they had long-standing pacts for sharing such intelligence – Britain and Norway. Both governments were furious.

ULRIKSEN: "It threatened to break up NATO… it could have been the death of NATO.

Senior political and diplomatic sources on both sides of the Atlantic told Correspondent off the record that they were "shocked" at the development.

The Anglo-French agreement was signed at St Malo in Brittany.

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"It showed that the British Government, who had been the stalwart American ally since the year dot, was finally looking for […] European-based military options outside the NATO structure.

"It's a matter of public record that there is a distinct lineage from St Malo to the Euro Army."

There is a reluctance in Washington and Brussels to talk openly about a possible end to the Transatlantic Alliance.

But the pace at which the Euro-Army is being established seems to indicate a determination for it to take over as the leader in future peace-keeping operations.

When the proposal was put to the European Council of Ministers in Helsinki in December 1999, not a single country dissented.

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"[…] they were there with their troops on the ground, being shot at. You had General Rose doing his stuff in Sarajevo but the Americans were just not prepared to go that extra mile to back him up."

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[SHEENA: YOUNG PEOPLE'S DAY UNDER THE TITO REGIME?]

On the evening of 25^th May 1995, the young people of Tuzla promenaded in the old town centre.

Seventy-one of them died in this mortar attack.