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On June 18, 1995, the Bosnian Serbs announced that all the peacekeepers had been released
Thirty years ago today, on June 18, 1995 (May 21, 1995 in the lunar calendar), the Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina announced that all hostages of the peacekeeping forces had been released. On May 25, NATO air force bombed Serbian military targets in Bosnia and Herzegovina. On the morning of May 26, NATO air force bombed targets in the Serbian-controlled areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina again. On the same day, the peacekeeping force and NATO announced that the Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina had taken at least 10 peacekeepers hostage on the 26th and besieged about 100 peacekeepers in heavy weapons detention sites around the city of Sarajevo. As of the evening of the 28th, the number of peacekeepers arrested and detained by Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina had reached 320, 17 of whom had been tied and handcuffed to Serb targets. According to a spokesman for the peacekeeping force on the 28th, 288 of the 320 personnel are peacekeeping force soldiers and 32 are unarmed observers, from 8 countries including France, Britain, Canada, Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Brazil. On May 30, six French soldiers trapped in the Sarajevo area were allowed to leave the siege. This was the first time that Serbs granted freedom to the trapped Blue Helmets since the Blue Helmets hostage crisis caused by NATO air strikes. Buha, Foreign Minister of the "Republic of Serbia" of Bosnia and Herzegovina, told the released peacekeepers on behalf of the Pale authorities that it was the leaders of the peacekeeping force that put these hostages in an unfortunate situation and faced danger to their lives. He expressed regret that. He said that due to President Milosevic's appeal and the decision of the leaders of the peacekeeping force to stop air strikes on Serb targets, the international community sent a signal through secret diplomacy and other channels that NATO would no longer air strikes and the peace process was about to resume, and the Serbs adopted a new stance. He said that if these signals continue and become serious and binding international documents, the Serbs will continue to release the remaining detained peacekeepers. Since NATO bombed Serb targets in Bosnia and Herzegovina on May 25, the Serbs have detained about 370 peacekeepers, creating the most serious crisis since the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Late at night on June 6, 108 peacekeeping personnel detained by the Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina were released. They arrived in the Yugoslav city of Novi Sad in the early morning of the 7th under the escort of special envoy of President Milosevic of the Federal Republic of Serbia. This is the second time that Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina have released hostages. On the afternoon of June 18, Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbs announced that the last 26 peacekeepers hostages had been released that day in exchange for four Serb prisoners of war detained by the peacekeepers last month.


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