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From: doctorb@ix.netcom.com (. )

>That hideous Bosnian government would think
>
>twice of bombing its own citizens if there were no Serbian big
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>guns around Sarajevo that they could blame, isn't that so?

DEMURENKO, [RUSSIAN COMMANDER OF THE SARAJEVO SECTOR OF THE U.N.
PEACEKEEPING FORCES], A COLONEL OF THE ARTILLERY, SAID TECHNICAL 
ASPECTS OF THE INCIDENT LEFT PLACE FOR DOUBT. 

HE SAID IT WAS QUITE OBVIOUS THAT THE MARKETPLACE WAS HIT BY A
120-MILIMETRE MORTAR SHELL WHICH WAS DELIBERATELY FIRED ON THE
CROWDED PLACE. 

TO BEGIN WITH, IT IS PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO HIT A NINE METRE-WIDE
STREET WITH A MORTAR FROM THE RANGE OF THREE-FOUR KILOMETRES, WHICH
IS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE MARKETPLACE AND THE NEAREST SERB
ARTILLERY POSITIONS, DEMURENKO SAID. 

MARKINGS OF THE SHELLS HAVE BEEN ELUCIDATED, BUT THIS IS OF NO
PRACTICAL USE, FOR BOTH THE SERBS AND THE CROATS HAVE SUCH SHELLS.
 
MOREOVER, THE MOSLEMS SHELLED AN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN THE SERB
QUARTER OF ILIJA IMMEDIATELY AFTER MARKALE WAS HIT, A FACT WHICH
WESTERN MEDIA FOR SOME REASONS CHOSE TO OVERLOOK, DEMURENKO
CONTINUED. 

BLASTS OF FOUR LARGE MOSLEM SHELLS KILLED ONE SERB AND WOUNDED
MORE THAN 40. [Source: 29/8 TASS 231 BY ANDREI NARYSHKIN]