HC Deb 01 December 1994 vol 250 c912W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what evidence he has that Croatian Serb aircraft based in Udbira have bombed Bihac; and if he will publish that evidence.

Mr. Soames

On 19 November 1994, UN military observers observed two ORAO jet fighters in the vicinity of Bihac. One aircraft dropped its bombs and headed south; the other struck a building and crashed. This and other attacks were widely reported. Croatia is not known to possess ORAO aircraft and no Bosnian-Serb ORAO was reported to have been airborne at the time of attack. The Croatian Serb—Republic of Serb Krajina—airfield at Udbina lies to the south of Bihac and some of its armed ORAO aircraft were reported to have been airborne prior to the attacks at Bihac.

Mr. Austin Mitchell

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what evidence he has of the dropping of napalm bombs on Bihac; and if he will publish that evidence.

Mr. Soames

A UN military observer reported that on 18 November 1994 a fixed-wing aircraft dropped three bombs on Bihac. From evidence collected by UNMOs at the impact points, one of the bombs was identified as a napalm bomb, but this was unexploded. The others were cluster bombs.

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