20. Februar 1994 während der Belagerung von Sarajevo: Französische Panzerwagen in der bosnisch-serbischen Lukavica-Kaserne, in der Nähe des Flughafens von Sarajevo.
10056 x 6160 px | 85,1 x 52,2 cm | 33,5 x 20,5 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
20. Februar 1994
Ort:
Lukavica barracks, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina.
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In the foreground, Bosnian-Serb soldiers walk past a French soldier as he adjusts the snow-chains on a French Panhard ERC (Engin de Reconnaissance Cannon) 90 F4 Sagaie Armoured Car - basically an amphibious 6x6 armoured car, armed with a 90mm gun. Parked behind the ERC is a Panhard VBL (Véhicule Blindé Léger). UNPROFOR had taken up a presence here to supervise the marshalling of Bosnian-Serb heavy weapons, such as artillery and tanks. As a consequence of the Markale massacre in Sarajevo when 68 people were killed by a mortar bomb on the 5th February 1994, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) issued an ultimatum to all forces fighting within 20 kilometres of Sarajevo to hand over their heavy weapons and to refrain from attacks within the area; if they failed to do so by midnight 20th February, heavy weapons of any of the parties found within the exclusion zone would, along with their military support facilities, be subject to NATO airstrikes. This was the first time during the conflicts in former Yugoslavia that NATO had issued an explicit threat to use airstrikes attached to specific conditions and without clear authorisation from the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). It sparked the first significant crisis in relations between the West and Russia after the end of the Cold War. Russia had not been consulted, and it opposed the use of force and the threat of use of force, particularly by NATO.
