CNN
Sarajevo
July 29, 1995
6:00 p.m. EDT
A U.N. spokesman tells CNN that Bosnian Serb forces looted and then torched the town of Zepa in eastern Bosnia and that the Serbs have probably executed the government military commander of the Moslem "safe area."
According to a U.N. officer who spoke with Serb army leader Gen. Ratko Mladic, Colonel Avdo Palic was killed after talks designed to bring about the surrender of 3,000 Moslem soldiers hiding in surroudning forrests reached an impasse. The Moslem commander has not been seen since Thursday. Serb soldiers also seized 36 Moslem men of military age from the last group of U.N.-escorted buses as they were about to be evacuated with other civilians from Zepa.
Serb soldiers captured Zepa last Tuesday, two weeks after taking the U.N.-designated "safe area" of Srebrenica and purging its 40,000 Moslem civilians in a wave of "ethnic cleansing."
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