Bosnia asks for international help

Title

Bosnia asks for international help

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

7 Feb 1994

Year of production

1994

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Duration

00:02:35

Description

Peter Allen-Frost reports from Tel Aviv, Israel after a mortar shell killed almost seventy people in Sarajevo over the weekend. Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Haris Silajdzic says the international community that has imposed an arms embargo is as guilty as the Serbs. Bosnian Ambassador to the UN, Muhamed Sacirbey (also speaking on an Israeli radio station), speaks of slow-motion genocide.Speaker of the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament), Shevah Weiss has asked for international action to stop the genocide, drawing a comparison with the Jewish situation during World War II.

Contributors

Peter Allen-Frost; Muhamed Sacirbey; Haris Silajdzic; Shevah Weiss

Keywords

Israel; UN; Jews; NATO; Second World War (1939-1945); Europe; Genocide; Wars (events); Bosnia and Herzegovina; Sarajevo; Yugoslav War (1991-1995)

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