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Shelter at the power plant

near Kakanj, Bosnia

Croats driven out of the Kakanj area by the seventh brigade and the 16th Krajisnici were savvy enough to read the situation in the Lasva Valley. A large group headed for the Kakanj electrical generating facility and begged the UN, or more accurately, the French Foreign Legion, for protection. The Legion was assigned to protect the power plant from those who would have otherwise wrecked it. They let the refugees in and made them as comfortable as possible. This was against UN policy, but no UN bureaucrat had the guts to protest. There were these huge rooms with pipes and generators with people sleeping all over the floor. If the Legionaires thought the media was a little too aggressive they would ask us to "be respectful." This war would have been over in two months if the conduct of it had been handed over to the British Army and the French Foreign Legion. With Otto von Hapsburg in charge.

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Az Bosnian Muslin 02-Dec-2007 17:20
oh my type Muslim and not Muslin...
BTW James your images are very moving, thank you for sharing them.
Az Bosnian Muslin 02-Dec-2007 17:17
Stefan the Serb this is directed @ you! YOu are one of the most illiterate sub human beings I have ever had the misfortune to come across. IT IS PEOPLE LIKE you that pass on the hate down through generations and instead of moving forward and learning from your ancestor's past and even your own past you keep repeating and brain washing your offspring with crap. You do not even believe in God for if you did you'd certainly replace that hate with an emotion that seems to not exist in you! You're a vile, hatefull sub human being. You can't even express yourself without resorting to gutter language, nor can you spell. Get a life, get an education to start with! PS I hope you rot in hell for eternity, actually you're so full of hate you seem to be living in hell in the present.
Guest 17-Nov-2006 19:27
no it wouldnt because if you're western motherfuckers started killing serbs then JNA would come and EAT YOU ALL and show no mercy, then at least we would deserve what we have got following this war. now go and kiss your photo of Ante Gotovina majku ti jebem u picku, sto nisi dosao kod nas da slikas 500000 izbeglice iz Krajine huh???