(10 Jan 1996) English/Nat
NATO forces re-enacted Tuesday's attack on a tram in Sarajevo as they looked for evidence of who fired the rocket that killed one woman and injured 19 others.
While the investigation continues, some Serbs leaving the city set fire to their own homes rather than hand them over to their Croat-Moslem enemies.
I-FOR forces fear that hundreds of Serb residents of Sarajevo are busy pursuing their own "scorched earth" policy.
Under the terms of the Dayton peace accord, Serbian populated suburbs - such as Poljine on a Sarajevo hillside - will come under Bosnian-Croat control in March.
Faced with the inevitable, some Serbs are packing their belongings and fleeing to Serbia - but not before torching their homes.
NATO admits that it does not know how many houses are being burnt by the Bosnian Serbs.
The Bosnian government says that the true extent of damage will only be known when it takes control of the neighbourhoods involved.
NATO officials re-enacted Tuesday's rocket attack on the Sarajevo tram which killed one person and injured 19.
They believe it was fired from the top floor of this apartment building in Grbavica, a Serb-held neighborhood near the city center.
A rocket launcher, believed to be the one used in the attack, was found and taken away for examination.
NATO officials have dismissed the attack as an isolated incident without official Bosnian Serb backing and have rejected Bosnian government calls for punitive action.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"For the moment the investigation is still going on. They have found several evidences - part of the weapon, the tube of the weapon and also the propellant of the rocket. So we can confirm the type of the rocket which is a light anti-tank weapon. As far as we know, it will be possible very soon, after the reconstruction of the incident, to say precisely from where it came."
SUPERCAPTION: General Herve Gourmelon, I-FOR spokesman for Sarajevo
The Bosnian Serb news agency has reported that Bosnian Serb authorities have "indignantly" denied that Serbs were to blame.
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