NATO Bomb Kills Two Peacekeepers

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Tue Jun 22 10:59:51 PDT 1999


At 09:46 AM 6/22/99 -0700, you wrote:
>
>NATO Bomb Kills Two Peacekeepers;
>Clinton Thanks Macedonians for Help
>
>Associated Press
>
>The British military said Tuesday that a bomb blast killed two
>peacekeeping soldiers and two civilians as the troops cleared
>explosives from a schoolhouse.
>
>They said the accident came not from a Serb booby-trap, but
>from a NATO cluster bomb that accidentally went off.
>
>The deaths Monday of Lt. Gareth Evans and Sgt. Balaram Rai --
>Nepalese soldiers attached to the British army -- were the first
>allied fatalities since NATO peacekeepers entered Kosovo on June
>12. Dozens of civilians, however, have died in explosions of land
>mines and booby-traps since the peacekeeping force began to take
>control of the southern Serb province.

So it looks like the British Army is still using the brown people as mine detectors. Very social democratic and humanitarian (for the white men), indeed.

Heil Blair.

wojtek



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