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Evacuation Of Karin Base
Evacuation of Karin Base occurred in January 1993. A unit of Czech and Slovak soldiers evacuated a French soldiers surrounded by Croat and Serbian units. Events At the turn of 1992 and 1993, the French military base Karin found itself under mortar fire from the Croatian side of the front. French troops were unable to rescue its soldiers because they were separated from the base by a destroyed bridge. There were 55 French soldiers trapped in the base at the time. The Czechoslovak battalion was at the time the only functional UNPROFOR unit in the area. 29 soldiers with 2 OT-64 SKOT, OT-64 transporters were sent to help the soldiers blocked in the Karin base. They were 30 kilometers from the base. The journey took two hours. Among other things, the Czechoslovaks were held back by trees that had fallen on the road. The soldiers had to clear them under mortar fire. As soon as the Czechoslovak transporters arrived at the threatened base, the French commander there began the evacuation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Nations Protection Force
The United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR; also known by its French acronym FORPRONU: ''Force de Protection des Nations Unies'') was the first United Nations peacekeeping force in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Yugoslav Wars. The force was formed in February 1992 and its mandate ended in March 1995, with the peacekeeping mission restructuring into three other forces (the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force (UNPREDEP) in Macedonia, and the United Nations Confidence Restoration Operation in Croatia (UNCRO) in Croatia, with restructured UNPROFOR operations ongoing in Bosnia and Herzegovina until their replacement by NATO and EU missions in December 1995). Personnel UNPROFOR was composed of nearly 39,000 personnel. It consisted of troops from Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Lithuania, Luxembour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
