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Monday, April 22, 1996
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Movement is not so free in Bosnia
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The tribunal did not indict the officer, Col. Aleksa Krsmanovic, and returned him to Sarajevo on April 3. He was released by the government yesterday and sent to the Bosnian Serb headquarters in nearby Pale.
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Muslim refugees battled Serbs in central Bosnia with sticks and stones yesterday in a blunt reminder that a NATO-led peace effort has failed to ensure freedom of movement.
On Friday, Czech soldiers posted in northwest Bosnia opened fire over the heads of Muslims and Serbs to disperse the crowd. About 200 Muslim refugees had crossed into Serb-held territory in hopes of seeing their homes.
While the international peace force has separated armies and forced them to stop fighting, the long-range effort to calm underlying tensions in Bosnia has fallen short.
Yesterday's clash on a bridge near the Serb-held town of Doboj was the latest of several confrontations about the desire of refugees to return to their homes.
Danish soldiers of the peace force were present, but Bullock was unable to say whether they intervened. Bullock said the local Bosnian Serb radio in Doboj, 60 miles north of Sarajevo, had called for volunteers to go to the bridge and prevent the Muslims from returning.
Another source of tension is the fate of suspected war criminals. Yesterday, the Bosnian government released a Serb officer who was arrested in January and sent to the international war crimes tribunal as a suspect.
The Dayton peace agreement guarantees freedom of movement. While decrying shortcomings in meeting that goal, international aid workers also acknowledge that refugees should proceed cautiously because of the potential for violence.
The confrontation took place at a front-line bridge over the Usora River, about five miles southwest of Doboi.
NATO spokesman Maj. Peter Bullock said that in Doboj both groups of people were armed with sticks, and there was stone-throwing and abuse.
Witnesses said several people were hurt by flying debris and that NATO helicopters had buzzed the crowds to disperse them.
They were met by angry Serb residents.
Randolph Ryan, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said Friday's confrontation in northwest Bosnia was an extremely dangerous situation, which is a likely precursor to coming events, unless parties agree to have a phased return of refugees soon.
He warned that unless local Serb, Muslim and Croat authorities genuinely started respecting the right to freedom of movement, such incidents would soon become the norm.
The Yugoslav news agency Tanjug, reported that police and residents of Doboj had prevented Muslims from returning to the town on Saturday as well.
Nearly 200 Serb refugees in the northwestern town of Banja Luka announced earlier they would try to go back to their homes in Drvar in western Bosnia yesterday. Croats holding the town have banned their return so far.
Peres, the target of rising world criticism for the Israeli bombardment of southern Lebanon — but supported unwaveringly by the
"It's a matter of self-defense." Peres said, defending the assault on Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon.
But a U.S. official said a pullout could only be a part of an overall settlement between Israel and both Syria and Lebanon. Those talks were suspended last month and have not been resumed.
At a minimum, Hezbollah wants to force Israel to withdraw its troops from a security enclave in southern Lebanon, and Peres is agreeable if the terms are right.
JERUSALEM—Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres criticized the mushrooming number of would-be Middle East peacemakers yesterday and said only the United States was capable of working out a cease-fire in southern Lebanon.
"It cannot be done from many channels," Peres said as American, Russian and European diplomats crisscrossed the region pursuing their own proposals to end the fighting between Israel and Shiite Hezbollah extremists.
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Appearing on ABC's This Week with David Brinkley, Christopher said he was certain Syria had great influence with Hezbollah.
U. S. intelligence has detected large shipments of Iranian weapons arriving in Damascus to be channeled to Hezbollah, but Christopher said this was not the time to use invective because Syria
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More than 100 Lebanese civilians have been killed in Israel's Operation Grapes Of Wrath.
Israel's Peres wants United States' help
Christopher still has not determined what Hezbollah's terms are for a cease-fire.
Christopher then flew to Damascus for another meeting today with Syrian President Hafez Assad.
At this point, Christopher is shutting between Peres in Jerusalem and Assad in Damascus. He also intends to meet with Lebanon's Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, possibly by going to Beirut.
Christopher's mediation is aimed at a cease-fire and laying the groundwork for an agreement to replace and strengthen the accord he worked out in 1993.
is the key to completing the circle of peace.
While peace negotiations between Israel and Syria stalled last month, before the latest round of fighting, Christopher said Syria would like to get back to the bargaining table, and there's a real possibility of achieving a ceasefire.
"We've had some candid and frank discussions," he said.
Christopher also denied that the United States had been too easy on Syria.
American diplomats insisted only the United States had the influence with Israel to work out a cease-fire. But Christopher's consultations with foreign ministers Yevgeny Primakov of Russia and Herve de Charette of France indicated that different the approaches may be blended.
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