Bosnia-Sacked army officers occupy tv transmitter

Описание: (17 Nov 1996) T/I 10:35:59


A group of sacked army officers has been occupying a Bosnian Serb television transmission station since Tuesday (12/11) to protest against the dismissal of military commander and indicted war-crimes suspect General Ratko Mladic.
Three technicians are being held hostage, according to a statement issued on Saturday (16/11) by the television company, which is based in the Bosnian Serb stronghold of Pale.


SHOWS:

PALE, BOSNIA, 17/11

Female Presenter on Pale Bosnian Serb TV, announcement in Serbo-Croat,
saying: A group of dismissed generals and officers loyal to them have occupied the Mount Zep transmitter and rendered it unusable. The statement says three technicians were being held hostage by the group, and called on the Bosnian Serb authorities to consider putting those responsible on trial. The general staff no longer exists. I call on the soldiers and officers of the RS armed forces to show proof of their unity and obey the orders of the supreme commander, the television quoted the president and the government. Viewers of
Serb Radio and Television, as you may have noticed over the past few days -- since Tuesday to be precise -- Serb Radio and Television is again not working as a single network, the television said. There are no radio and television links between Banja Luka and Pale, between Pale and Bijeljina, between Bijeljina and Banja Luka, and between Trebinje and all other towns. Our television cannot be received in a sizeable part of Podrinje (in eastern Bosnia) either, it said.
Still of Biljana Plavsic,
Bosnian Serb President;
still of Bosnian Serb Tv
test card;
Vs television studio,
technicians;
Ext. Pale TV studio ;

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