(3 Jun 1995) English/Nat
Bosnian Serbs attacked U.N. peacekeepers in a vulnerable eastern enclave Saturday and toyed with the West over the fate of a downed U.S. airman.
Two Dutch soldiers were seriously injured in one of two attacks on peacekeepers in eastern Bosnia.
Meanwhile, more than 250 other peacekeepers remained hostages of the Bosnians Serbs as a group of 121 peacekeepers was freed under the auspices of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.
Serb rebels freed 121 hostage U-N soldiers Saturday as U-N and Western officials turned their attention to the fate of an American F-16 pilot shot down near a Serb stronghold.
In the Serbian town Novi Sad, U-N soldiers filed onto buses to be taken to Belgrade.
SOUNDBITE:
(Q) Right now you are on you way to Belgrade to be flown out?
(A)Yes
(Q) Then go to Zagreb?
(A) Maybe
(Q)And then you get to find out where you are going?
(A) Yes
SUPER CAPTION: UNPROFOR Liaison Officer Gudmundsson
The Bosnian Serbs took a total of 377 peacekeepers from five countries hostage after NATO jets attacked Serb ammunition dumps May 25-26 in
retaliation for the Serbs' failure to return weapons taken from a
U-N monitoring depot.
But even as the latest releases were taking place rebel Serbs seized another 45 Canadians north of Sarajevo.
This Canadian led U-N base in Visiko north west of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo is where the freed Canadian soldiers will end up.
SOUNDBITE:
"If everything goes well, hopefully they will leave for Belgrade, go to Zagreb later to Split during the same trip then tomorrow (Sunday) night or Monday if everything goes well they should be back here."
SUPER CAPTION: Capt Jacques Poitars, U-N Information officer.
NATO was seeking word on the fate of the pilot of the U.S. fighter jet shot down Friday over northern Bosnia. Bosnian Serb military sources in Pale told The Associated Press that the pilot was alive and in Bosnian Serb hands.
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