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Sniper rifle

Gornji Vakuf

One day I was at the British base at Gornji Vakuf and I came a cross a squaddie cleaning a sniper rifle. I asked him if it had been used lately. He was unusually grim and said "We've been shooting the Croats in the Partizan Cemetary. We're fed up with them." I thought he was pulling my leg so when I encountered the base commander later that day I asked him about it. "Not a chance. He was cleaning that rifle for something to do." Then I decided to check in at the Bosnian base at Yassa, not far away. When I drove up their commander came out to meet me. "You're James, right?" I said I was. "Could you do me a favor? Tell the British to stop shooting the Croats in the Partizan Cemetary. They think we're doing it and mortar us in retaliation. We don't have mortars to answer back with."


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shaun Carlin 27-Nov-2012 15:30
The squddie in this photo is Phil Wiggnall (Recce Plt)
Guest 21-Nov-2012 22:59
The Croats in the Partisan cemetery were fired on by a 7.62 mm co-ax machine gun from a Schimitar Reconnaissance vehicle from the high ground across town, due to the fact the people in the log bunkers in the cemetery were firing indiscriminately on civilian and military convoys as they drove through Gornji Vakuf. The Sniper in the photo above was my driver, I was the Commander of the Schimitar. On a separate occasion we also had a soldier shot in the back from the same area of the cemetery.
A lot of artillery, mortar and tank rounds that was meant for the Yassa factory position in fact landed in our camp which was next door.
Guest 30-Oct-2009 05:42
I would say that the Serbs were butchers,war criminals anyway,but they had blessing from world powers.Blessing with other words means permission for killing.Interests of many foreign powers were braking in Bosnia & Herzegovina,Croatia and other countries in the region.The war is over 15 years ago,but the things in the region,specially in Bosnia & Herzegovina are still not good.For all atrocities,that they committed,Serbs were granted with 50 % of territory in
Bosnia & Herzegovina.The Hag tribunal is a political tribunal.Prove for that is that for example Karadzic is making conditions in a court,not judges.
Guest 06-Feb-2009 09:20
To Guest: don't be silly; the only cold-blooded people there was were the Serbs.
Guest 01-Feb-2008 18:36
Engleski bolesnik..Niko od tri sukobljene strane u ratu nije blagonaklono gledao na hladnokrvne Engleze.Srbi su imali podrsku Rusa,Bosnjaci islamskog svijeta,Hrvati Njemaca.