ZLOČINI NAD CIVILIMA U SARAJEVU POČINJENI MODIFICIRANIM AVIOBOMBAMA
CRIMES AGAINST CIVILIANS IN SARAJEVO COMMITTED WITH MODIFIED AIR BOMBS

Summary/Abstract: Unlike mass crimes committed by shelling, the manipulations by the military and political leadership in the sense of serving myths about ”self-shelling” of own people were not as frequent in the case of launching modified air bombs on Sarajevo. The use of these bombs was especially intensified in the context of the plan of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina to de-block Sarajevo which was spoken about more often during 1995. The political leadership of Republika Srpska used these bombs as blackmail threatening to occupy all UN safe zones if the unfavourable points of the agreement proposed by the Contact Group were not annulled. With a detailed analysis of the great number of Sarajevo-Romanija Corps/Army of Yugoslavia documents we came across a series of orders which directly referred to the responsibility of the military and political leadership of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia/ Republika Srpska for the launch of modified air bombs. Even though members of UNPROFOR in the investigations carried out after the shelling of urban parts of the city clearly and undoubtedly argued that they were launched from the territory controlled by Sarajevo-Romanija Corps, verbal condemnation addressed to the Army of Republika Srpska was not sufficient. Their further demonstration of power only showed the impotence of UNPROFOR. Therefore, after the ”hostage crisis”, during the phases of search for the right solution for the protection of UNPROFOR troops, actions of the members of the Army of Republika Srpska were tolerated and they bombed intensely all safe zones, also committing genocide on the territory of Srebrenica and Žepa while no specific sanctions followed. Since the units of Sarajevo- Romanija Corps with this new type of weapons, known also as the weapons of “terror” tended to win over the psychological control of war, creating pressure on civilians in the besieged city, and on the fact that these kinds or projectiles were disturbing for the members of Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the front who were also worried for the safety of their families in Sarajevo, the modified air bombs fully achieved the desirable effect and served as one of the tools for the prevention to de-block Sarajevo.

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