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Old 7th Jul 2015, 13:58
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Lonewolf_50
 
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Leon:
I seem to recall that the commander of the Royal Welch Fusiliers in Gorazde didn't back down. (tips cap)

As to the UN dual-key RoE BS, that is a core reason that the 93-95 period was a cluster hump. (General McKenzie, Canadian, has over the years done a fine job of describing how screwed up that all was).

Despite the best efforts of troops from a bunch of UN nations, the collective political leadership of the world, as embodied by the UN Security Council, utterly screwed the pooch and created the conditions under which Srebrenica happened.

I had a coffee a few years later with a young (Turkish) man in Izmir, Turkey. On the wall of his jewelry shop (he was a fair goldsmith) was a medal and a placard from his UNPROFOR service before 1995. Proud he was to have done his part, but he expressed to me his frustration that he was unable to do more to help based on what he saw.
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