Bosnian Troops Block Aid Route
Troops of Bosnia’s Muslim-led government were blockading a key lifeline to Sarajevo on Friday, saying rebel Serbs tried to advance along the road by using U.N. aid convoys as cover.
U.N. officials said the closing of the airport road violated an agreement by Bosnia’s warring ethnic factions to allow emergency food into the besieged capital.
A Muslim general warned that his soldiers would fire on any U.N. troops who tried to clear the road. But the two sides agreed late Friday to examine an alternate route today.
The road dispute began Thursday, when government troops put a container across the main road linking the airport to the city center. The road was used to move supplies brought in by an international airlift for Sarajevo’s residents, who have been besieged by Serbs for months. Overland convoys from Croatia also use the road.
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