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French peacekeepers attacked

UN force threatens Bosnian army with NATO air strikes
SARAJEVO. Oct 30: The UN peacekeeping force accused government forces of a deliberate artillery attack on French peacekeepers on Saturday and threatened to call in NATO air strikes if such attacks were repeated, reports AP.
It was the most serious warning yet to the Muslim-led govern merit army that it, too. ■ could be hit by NATO strikes, thus far directed only at the Bosnian Serb side.
The warning came as government forces expanded their strongest offensive of the war, encircling hundreds of Serb soldiers on a northwestern battlefront and launching an infantry and artillery attack on Serbs' near Sarajevo.
The peacekeeping force, in a statement, said four rounds
from a government army 122mm artillery piece landed 25 to 50 metres from a French peacekeeper observation post on Saturday near the Javorak Valley, southwest of Sarajevo.
The Bosnian army, in a statement issued early on Sunday, denied that it had deliberately targeted the UN peacekeeper observation post and said the fire was aimed at Bosnian Serb artillery positions.
The incident occurred as peacekeepers Were trying to monitor a government infantry and artillery attack on Bosnian Serb positions just south of a demilitarized zone on Mount Igman, which overlooks Sarajevo.
The UN force accused the government army of using the
demilitarized zone to stage the attack on the Serbs and firing artillery from it. The government army denied this.
The United Nations, in Its statement, said it cannot allow either side to violate agreements such as the one that established the demilitarized zone in August .1993.
Tf UN observation posts or personnel are directly targeted by artillery or mortars, the UN will have no alternative but to request air support from NATO in self-defence," the statement said.
Meanwhile, in northwestern Bosnia, troops of the mostly Muslim government force crossed the Una River and surrounded the town of Bosanska Krupa, encircling several hundred Serb soldiers. UN offi-
cials said. Government army sources said their troops had entered part of the town.
Bosanska Krupa. 210 kilometers northwest of Sarajevo, had a pre-war population of about 20.000. If would be by far the. largest Serb-held town to fall to government forces since the war began in April 1992.
Bosnian Serb radio said the town’s civilian population had 'been evacuated and that Serb soldiers were bracing for an all-out government attack.
The sweep around Bosanska Krupa and the attacks near . Sarajevo came a day after Serb leaders, stung by their worst combat setbacks of the war earlier in the week, threatened counterattacks In the northwest or renewed bombardment of Sarajevo.