My fellow Peacekeepers, I finally present you the link to eBook about my mission in UNPROFOR (Bosnia 95 – Peacekeeping in a War zone). In Kobo – https://www.kobo.com/pt/en/ebook/bosnia-95 or in Amazon I am sure some of you will remember your own experiences in my words. Others will find some of it to be historically incomplete,Continuar lendo “Finally, UNPROFOR eBook has been released”
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UNPROFOR Airfield Monitors -Inspecting MEDEVACs
One of the (UNMO) Airfield Monitors’ tasks, in Belgrade, was to inspect and clear the airlift of medical evacuations (MEDEVAC) in/out Belgrade to in/out Bosnia. The civilians wounded in Bosnia’s war zone were flown to Belgrade in order to be assisted at the very competent and well organized Yugoslav hospital system. However, those MEDEVAC flightsContinuar lendo “UNPROFOR Airfield Monitors -Inspecting MEDEVACs”
Nobel Peace Prize to the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
If war is the ultimate chaos unleashed to deliberately exercise extreme human cruelty, peacekeepers are the extraordinary glimmer of humanity and hope. War is the most extreme of the human experiences, which last in the human mind as ghosts as the International Crime Court for former Yugoslavia put it: – “This was terrible. The screams.Continuar lendo “Nobel Peace Prize to the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces”
BOSNIA 95 – Peacekeeping in a War Zone
eBook about UNPROFOR
Bosnia Dec95 – Handover from UN to NATO
Back in 1995, when the United States finally managed to bring the three Bosnian belligerents to the Peace Agreement table, in Dayton, it was decided that the UN contingents would be substituted by a NATO lead force, starting in December 1995. The new Allied Force would have more vigorous Rules of Engagement, and more fireContinuar lendo “Bosnia Dec95 – Handover from UN to NATO”
O Carro Chetnik
Quando se cumpre uma missão da ONU em teatros de operação distantes, vivem-se situações indeléveis que balizam as nossas memórias. Algumas experiências são mais marcantes do que outras, mas todas dignas de registo. Recordo uma patrulha no bairro de Ilidza em Sarajevo – 1995 – quando nos cruzamos com um ícone do Cerco a SarajevoContinuar lendo “O Carro Chetnik”
Ilidza’s Chetnik Car (Bosnia 1995)
In October 1995, during the days when the Dayton Agreements were being discussed, I was driving through Sarajevo’s Serb neighborhood of Ilidza, providing situation awareness to a recently arrived UN Military Observer (UNMO), when we saw something simultaneously danger and unique – “The Chetnik Car”. That was something not all UNPROFOR staff had the chanceContinuar lendo “Ilidza’s Chetnik Car (Bosnia 1995)”
The path to Dayton’s Agreements (Bosnia 1995)
In the beginning of October 1995, it was common knowledge that the US Administration’s Representative for the Balkans – Richard Holbrooke – was negotiating a definitive Cease Fire Agreement, which could lead to a permanent Peace Agreement. People remained sceptical, because it would probably be just another cease fire agreement, like many others before; someContinuar lendo “The path to Dayton’s Agreements (Bosnia 1995)”
UN battlefield negotiations – UNPROFOR 1995
As prescribed on their “job description”, United Nations’ Military Observers have to negotiate compromised solutions between the warring factions. Those negotiations are normally conducted in meetings, with people that barely know each other; or even hate one another. Making arrangements with only one of the belligerents tend to be easier, but not necessarily more relaxed.Continuar lendo “UN battlefield negotiations – UNPROFOR 1995”
Scenes from a past war – Sarajevo 1995
Back in 1995, Sarajevo had no electricity, no gas and no water distribution system operational. Living among the population, the UN Military Observers (UNMO) had to suffer the same restrictions and solve the same problems of the locals. Going out for water replenishment was particularly interesting. The water collection point was located inside of aContinuar lendo “Scenes from a past war – Sarajevo 1995”
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