TWO French UN soldiers were killed yesterday during an artillery duel
between Serbs and Croats engaged in heavy fighting in the Krajina area
of Croatia.
UN spokeswoman Shannon Boyd said three more French peacekeepers were
wounded during exchanges of artillery and tank fire around Zadar on the
Croatian coast.
The number of French troops killed in action or in accidents in
Yugoslavia is now 11.
A Scots reporter was one of three journalists injured on Sunday when
their armoured vehicle hit a landmine in Gornji Vakuf. Mr Kevin
Sullivan, whose mother lives in Aitkenhead Road, Glasgow, has broken
bones in a leg and foot. He works for the American agency United Press
International and has been in the former Yugoslavia since October.
In a victory for the Croats, their troops recaptured the coastal
airport at Zemunik from the Serbs.
Croatia's supreme military commander General Janko Bobetko announced
the airport's seizure as Croat-Serb fighting raged in nearby villages
for a fourth day.
Fighting also flared with fresh intensity across neighbouring Bosnia.
In Belgrade, the federal army was ordered to a higher state of alert
and officials warned that the new fighting in Croatia and eastern Bosnia
threatened the Geneva peace conference. Serbs signed up to fight in
Krajina and waited in Belgrade for buses to take them there.
Other fighters were said to be enlisting with a Serb militia chief
known as Captain Dragan, who fought in the 1991 Serb-Croat war when
Croatia declared independence.
The fighting in Krajina has overshadowed efforts to end the civil war
in neighbouring Bosnia. Peace talks between the warring ethnic leaders
there and international mediators Lord Owen and Cyrus Vance are
continuing in Geneva .
Bosnia's Muslim President Alija Izetbegovic appealed for help from the
United States as Mr Vance stepped up efforts to avert stronger action by
the new Clinton administration.
Izetbegovic said no progress had been made at the weekend peace talks
and claimed tens of thousands had died because of Western inaction.
Diplomats said Mr Vance was striving to prevent a change of policy by
Washington.
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