Operation Insanity: The Battle to Save Gorazde | TEA & MEDALS 

I agree when the interviewer talks over people it stops the flow and their story .

100% agree, always look forward to them

selam brate this was painful to read, every bosnian has a brutal story of war crimes committed to their families or friends. I have my own stories from my own family that are painful to recall, but I will teach the future generations to come inshallah, veliki pozdrav iz londona

It's hard to imagine the pain of the Bosnian people during that time and ever since.

I am sorry - and ashamed at how your people were let down by the UN. I hope this NEVER happens again. The UN is not an effective means to secure peace - only an Army can deter agression.

I was in the military with a chap whose face was blown open into flaps by an explosive shell and he was dumped in a pile of corpses but wasn't dead. He crawled for days playing dead when people passed but one time he failed at playing dead - turns out it was his own people though and they rescued him. I was in East Timor which was a very similar situation to the Bosnian War. Unfortunately we were peacekeepers so our hands were tied as to what we were allowed to intervene with too. That was the worst part. Providing aid when you have fit fighting men amongst you who could at least provide some fight sucks. Although now Bosnia is safe I hope your family have thanked Sweden for protecting you and returned to your homes to leave Sweden in peace?

@@dr.lexwinter8604 A lot of the witnesses of war crimes in east bosnia were survivors of mass shootings that hid between corpses, sometimes for days. Unfortunately Peacekeepers brought a false sense of security which lead to events like the Srebrenica genocide. Of course my familie is thankful to Sweden. My uncle and his children remained in Sweden and consider it their home now and rarely visit Bosnia. They have good jobs and all of them have houses in Sweden. A lot of bosnian refugees became to be respected citizens in the west as Yugoslavia had very good education.

Certa Cito

Anonymous lying coward.

Bless you sir.

Jimmy on the job - Certa Cito!

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I could not agree more. Particularly in an era where the actions of the regular soldiery is under so much out-of-context scrutiny. the typical suburban idea of what britains military is for or capable of leaves a lot to be desired.

I SHIT IN MOUTHS TO THE FULLEST OF THAT MAN AND WOMEN

How deceiving...British "Saving Gorazde" but those same British along USA IMPOSED ARMS EMBARGO leaving Bosnian Muslims DEFENSELESS .Imagine imposing arms embargo on Ukraine while being attacked by Russia. That is what USA and Britain has done to Bosnia. Biggest war crime of 20th century.

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They really haven't the UN as an institution has failed personally British troops I'm damn sure would have loved to put the boot to anyone harming civilians alot came home with trauma I'm pretty sure because of what they saw completely helpless to do anything.

@@Bossnier You have not been watching attentively . This was only about the end of the ceasefire agreement and what happened in the short time before the Bosnian fighters could take over the defence. PS Haven't read the book, just watched this .

@@frog252 ​ I didn't know @Salko Paradzik explained the situation to me. I will delete each negative comment and excuse me to Mr. Richard an his Battalion. Sry.

​ I didn't know @Salko Paradzik explained the situation to me. I will delete each negative comment and excuse me to Mr. Richard an his Battalion. Sry.

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Well done in supporting Bosnia!

@Hildebrand Well you are not "Hildebrand" and he is not "Ratković"...

@Hildebrand i see...

Lies and propaganda, Fake News, Bosniaks were attacking Serbs , that's the truth. Serbs were defending THEIR LAND.

@@tomstedford4144 The war was happening in Bosnia. Bosnians were defending their country from Serbian militants who came from Serbia and included local Serbs aw well. WTF are you talking about?!

@@tomstedford4144 Your full off shit Tom. Your the only one spreading fake news. "serbs defending their land" yeah right, the war was in Bosnia, hahaha The only reason serbs were there in the first place is because A/H them settle there when they were fleeing from the Turks.

@@georgefrancell5178 "The only reason serbs were there in the first place is because A/H them settle there when they were fleeing from the Turks." The Ottoman Turks brought in the Serbs & the Orthodox Vlach settlers into Bosnia after they had invaded and killed off a lot of the Roman Catholic locals. The Ottoman Turks needed a willing workforce and the Orthodox had the "millet system" already in place for them.

@@northernstar4811 Your missing the point, which ever way they arrived the land was not serbia.

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If the British Army - and other branches of the Armed Forces have one ""secret ingredient"" - it is the willingness of some officers to use their initiative even if it means not adhering strictly to orders...Brains Beats Bullshit

Let's see if your army dares to take action against the Russians. You've got balls against small countries and peoples, things are looking bad for you against Russia

@@dejanjuhanovski9504 Oh yeah, in WHO'S eyes ? .... YOUR'S ???? The current Russian army (NOT the old ten million strong SOVIET army) cant even manage to take down the supposedly weaker opponents they have right NOW, if they were unfortunate enough to have to come face to face with a commited British Military effort in open combat they would come a VERY poor second and on that you can trust me,............ .We dont usually START wars........but by the grace of the Good God almighty we ALWAYS FINISH them, and have done so for nearly a thousand years.....ask ANY Country in Europe over the last five hundred years ! the common narrative they like to use today is to play down and ignore the old British Empire........in my opinion THAT is simply out of embarrassment - because how could ONE tiny little Island end up OWNING nearly a third of the entire planet ?.......and your answer is........a smallish intergrated and VERY highly trained intelligent, co ordinated, and motivated armed services. So though I wouldnt wish for an all out war against Russia - because what THEY do is their OWN business after all and as far as I'm concerned if it isnt impinging on or threatening ours then fair enough .........though I do pity Russia if one WERE to start. and before you go off citing the Nazis in WW2...........WE wouldnt be stupid or arrogant enough to try to invade Russia in the AUTUMN knowing how bitterly cold, dangerous, and long a Russian winter is ! WE would do it as the snow STARTED to melt giving us six months to get the job done....not four weeks like the Germans..... but even in that timeframe the Germans forced you lot back to the outskirts of Leningrad......over four hundred miles or so in a matter of weeks before YOUR winter kicked in and won the battle for you.......had they been swiftly equipped with winter clothing, heating, and supplies which they WERENT, YOU would be speaking German now....mein freund !

​@@usernamesreprise4068 Your criminal history consists of conquering defenseless & barefoot tribesmen in order to plunder their own natural resources! How many millions of those unfortunate souls have you massacred both directly and through forced labor!? Did you say that you, the Brits, don't start wars, you finish them!!?? The biggest war, WW2, it was exactly you who started it, then retreated back on island in panic, and it was exactly the Russians who finished it! They inflicted 80% of German & Axis casualties! You 3%!!! Why did you run away from "your land" of India? Why don't you reestablish control of it now if you're so tough and powerful as you self-describe?

@@Bossnier Ey excuse me but why reply to my comment like that? Stolen valor? do you even know what that means? either listen to this interview again or go troll somewhere else I'm not interested in your rubbish.

@@dougieadams3819 ​ I didn't know @Salko Paradzik explained the situation to me. I will delete each negative comment and excuse me to Mr. Richard an his Battalion. Sry.

How can anybody stop organised shooting of war prisoners while only few people know what is planned. Even ordinary soldiers who take part of that war crime didnt know what is going on. Because when you have a lot of prisoners who are tied you need only few people to finnish the work. Only the shooters need to know others like drivers of trucks, soldiers who secure them didnt have to know, they can be manipulated to believe that they are just transition the prisoners from one place to another. Then driver goes home, soldiers who help to secure the convoy got command to do other task. Only FEW PEOPLE on ground and FEW in command can make it happen! But today i see propaganda against Serbs like every Serb was a part of that crime. Even people who where there doing the transit and secured it didnt know what is going on. Some of them even heard about that crime for first time when they where brought to court.

@@dushanstankovikj Where did I say that all Serbs are bad? There are so much good Serbian people, even better than Bosniaks or Croats. I've met Serbian people from Serbia, enjoyed conversations with them. But what I'm trying to say is what the pro-Serb politics are pointed towards Bosnia, through the century. They don't like letting us Bosnians have our country with 3 nationalities. Why? It's because of muslims. You don't have any idea what islamophobia has pressure to us, even from the beginning of it. After ww2 (Destroying Palestine and implementing Israeli apartheid regime toward Palestinians). Also 90's when global propaganda against "muslim bombers" in Iraq in the Gulf war, Afghanistan war against the Soviet regime, mujahedeen. And the biggest peak is after the 911 attack. But those next wars were battles to control oil, opioids.. nvm. And that's what Serbs were trying to do with Bosnian muslims. They KNEW what they were doing in Srebrenica, it was organized and there is no justification for that. Every genocide, massacre must be punished. And they did it, 100 thousand people killed in the war, around 2 milion people fled the country.

@@dushanstankovikj You are a liar and ignoramus

@@hasibhakanovic6682 you are hater 💯😉

@@dushanstankovikj "It is unfortunate for all that no moral issue has ever been clearer. Any attempt to plea-bargain with outlaws and renegades will only be at the expense of honor, decency and self-respect. The Serbs, are two-dimensional people with a craving for simplicity and an ideology so basic it can be understood without effort. They need enemies, not friends, to focus their two-dimensional ideas. Life for them is a simple tune, never an orchestration, or even a pleasant harmony. Animals make use of their resources with far greater felicity than these retorted creatures, whose subscription to the human race is well in arrears." Peter Ustinov

mostar doesnt get enough mention too, northern bosniaks seem to glorify their alliance with croats, but what the HVO did in hercegovina is shocking and more people should know about it, worse than serbs in many cases. My families from Mostar

​@@alenhuseinbasic899Croatian Forces saved Bosnia and Herzegovina from falling apart.

Sorry to read that hope you are managing okay

all sides were horrible?... you sound like one who lost his mind, not a leg.

What unit were you with ......1 Cheshire BG ?

Islam is a big problem everywhere

Thanks for being honest, mate. It is very rare to get someone from the West to say the truth about what happened there, nowadays. And I am sorry about what happened to you there, that is terrible and I have seen and lived with casualties of war. I survived that war as a teenager, me my family, relatives and friends went through some horrific times back then, in the outskirts of Sarajevo. I get sick when I see and hear biased journalism and spin stories that went into the world.

Mark, please try not to feel like that. You did as much as you possibly could and were dreadfully let down by your politicians. No fault of yours in any way, shape or form.

@@peterhall728 Thanks Peter, I appreciate your message.

@@marcs990 no worries mate. I am ex RAF and my father was 22 years Royal Signals. Before that he was a National Service man fighting in Malaya. You, and your mates out there, did a great job given the circumstances you were made to work within. Stay safe mate.

You served with great dignity as you all did. Nothing you could have done God bless

Serb nationalists are bastards. You n your mates did more than anyone else to save lives. Never be too proud of your successes and never be too ashamed of your defeats (real or otherwise). It what makes you the wonderful person you are.

That's what happens when un bureaucrats are allowed to make military decisions!

A time honoured British military tradition. But they still get the job done.

Difficult to justify artillery deployment or wings of your air force for a peacekeeping mission. They sent what was possible to send.

@@TheWedabest it was a military decision, the French battalion pulled out as discussed in the interview. The British MoD decided to send fusiliers. Pay attention.

@@SwitchTF2 the un doesn't make military decisions, period! It was a un mission under the un control.

You lie about your name.

@@Bossnier were you in Gorazde during the war?

he talks about the moments of 1995, in fact he talks about a few hours critical to the city's survival. I was born in Gorazde, I was there all the time and now I live in Gorazde. Mr. Richard is very realistic about the situation in Gorazde at that time. why do you say that it is a book promotion if someone talks about their life experiences !? of course it is true that the city was long surrounded in 1992 but he only talked about 1995. he did not mention the downed harier above the city in 1994, nor did he mention the English soldiers who died when their transporter drove down the hill from great heights. it is obvious that this is the story of 1995.

​@@salkoparadzik3794 thank you Salko. I didn't know. I will delete each negative comment and excuse me to Mr. Richard an his Battalion. Sry.

From the british side i know they were trying to get the bosnian Muslim troops up the mountain to support the ops for about more than an hour and were worried about a friendly fire incident when they did turn up. The british troops in ops noted the serbs rotated fat old men for mad looking chetnik types in the 2 weeks before the attack

Have you seen a film called come and see. That's a realistic war film.

@@robc8892 nope, I'll try to check it out.

Ive seen it about the two scouse lads who go on tour in Bosnia

Facts

And also, not coincidentally, the most depressing

​ I didn't know @Salko Paradzik explained the situation to me. I will delete each negative comment and excuse me to Mr. Richard an his Battalion. Sry.

thats what happens when your snoop where you should not..

@@gofnogofno5194you obviously never served in the Balkans as part of the United Nations and lack empathy.

@@spannerpasser Well i did not but evry time i saw them during the war,what a joke they where, foreigners in other countries to keep the peace,why you clowns didint go do Donbas in 2014 to help those people more than 5000 dead civilans since 2014 , thanks to Western weapons and the Ukrainian army,scared of the litle man in kremlin,why dodnt you go there now to keep peace i just wonder why...

@@gofnogofno5194 I imagine having the Russians on the UN Security Council with the power to veto might have something to do with it. Don’t forget it’s politicians that start wars and leave it to the soldiers to finish them. If you want to blame someone blame the politicians not the soldier. I’ve never met a politician yet willing to sacrifice for their country.

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Difference is British Soldiers would have gone down with a fight

@@liambeevor7983 as mentioned here they did, and didn't go down.

My understanding was the Dutch did but had been prohibited from taking substantial amounts of ammo and he. Their own govt has directed that in an effort to suck UN dick. Alot of guys committed suicide due to the consequences.

@@liambeevor7983 Not really a fair example, plz look into Sbrencia before just spewing stupid comments. Its been a big legal case aswell so all the facts are pretty known. Clearly you havent a clue what happend there. Yes it was a failure of Dutch Leadership and UN leadership of hanging them out too dry. Dutch Commander literally got the choice: We have tanks surrounding the Town, if you dont surrender we will just shell you to kingdom come, which they had 0 defense against. Or surrender and your men live. Dare you 2 make the same choice in the situation they got put in with 0 help.

An they would have died.....verry smart... You was not there my friend, go watch your war movie please.

@Hildebrand I'd love to see that, hopefully it'll remain for many years.

The Welsh Fusiliers , brill regiment , or was . Used Cymraeg to communicate , which really pissed off the Serbs, not many Welsh speakers in that bunch of murdering of scum.

Royal Welch Fusiliers……

Mate, I was medevaced to the Blue Factory after a convoy accident in May 1994.

@@hido2 I was injured a few times when in Bosnia and I was at the Blue Factory 4 times, two times when the Norwegians had it ( one surgery ) then two times when Americans and Germans had it for two other surgeries. This was between Feb 1995 and Oct 1997. I assume or at least hope everything worked out for you! The Norwegians was amazing, such nice people.

Tuzla region was even worse in my opinion. Strongly allied groups in one town were killing each other in the next one over and for once it wasnt the serbs being the vilest pieces of excrement there.

You might be able to answer this. Why was rose so reluctant to use the air power that was available to him? Was it because he had to answer to Zagreb, London? Or did akashi just veto it? Thanks

@@TheWedabest probably retaliation on the ground troops. We had a situation where we were shelled by heavy artillery and a couple of hours later we had a pair of F16's fly over, but about 9 months previously a harrier had been shot down over Gorazde, the pilot was ok, avoided the serbs, there was also a lot of AA and SAM sites in the area which made it quite risky to fly there as well. But as also stated, the UN needed to approve flights and they were not a 24/7 organisation, it always felt like you had both your hands tied behind your back, the fact that the serbs dictated what went on the convoys rather than just sending in what we needed, meant they knew how much of everything we had, so working for the UN was a bit of a nightmare in this situation.

@@tonyb1223 I can only imagine working for the un would be a nightmare. Didn't a French fighter or two get shot in 95, if I'm not mistaken? Yeah they called the un's bluff every time. To do the right thing takes great courage! Something the un is not known for!!!

Ex sigs myself, was part of 211, 11 armd bde during the first UN deployment in 92, but sadly arrived whilst they were on tour. Interesting a tech getting a gallantry award, what was the story behind that?

@@yallaboybrookwell4420 Not that much to it tbh, the det was basically 4 guys at that point, prior to that we had 3 Op's a DC, 2ic/crypto op, tech and ED. What they were left with was a tech full screw, a crypto op, 1 other operator and an ED. When it all kicked off, the RWF wanted to evac the det, lock it up and leave it, the guys spoke with Split and they said if you leave it, you destroy all the kit, so instead they left a tech and the crypto op to run things and the other 2 moved out of camp to a safe(er) area incase they needed to get out of there quickly. Tech got the MiD as he was basically in charge of the det, he did get shot at once or twice, that may have helped 😄😁

Guess they did not want to arm mujahideen fighters in the conflict because of security risks

Ukrainan battalion were on chetnik ( serb) side in Gorazde, they did not protecting town , they where helping agresor

@@salkoparadzik3794 it is the fact? They were there on behalf of the UN right?

it was a reality, they did not protect the city or civilians, in fact they were not passive, they were obviously on the side of the aggressors, they spied on those from the hill who shelled the city and killed for years everything that moved around the city. at that time the population of the besieged city was about 50,000 people by the vast majority of children of women and the elderly who hoped for UN protection but obviously the Ukrainians were all the opposite of why they were there, and as you heard the English battalion had their hands tied,

@@salkoparadzik3794 such tragic so Ukrainian now got to remorse thinks like what they did in Bosnia years ago

in any case, I am very sorry for the Ukrainian people who are now suffering because of someone's interests, I hope that the war will stop as soon as possible

It is true that Srebrenica and the massacre that happened there is very well known. Without the UN troops from the Royal Welch Fusiliers, the story may have been very similar in Gorazde.

Also because Sebrencia became a big legal case. Since the UN has immunity they couldnt be blamed for handling the situation really bad. (same all over the board as this gentleman also says: No clear mission, not having airsupport when needed, troops not equipped for that kind of battle etc). So they blamed the Dutch Commander for surrendering. Serbs had given him a choice: You are surrounded by tanks, if you dont surrender we will shell you 2 shit which he had 0 defense against or surrender and your men live. He called for air support and help from the Dutch Gouverment and the UN several times, but the UN never came/responded didnt wanna lose face or whatever other crazy reason. So the Dutch Commander said it wasnt his fault etc. Been going on for years.

@@BFBSCreative May or may not. It is funny that you actually believe that this guy stopped the Serbian forces from taking the town over, without a single casualty on his side. That's some serious fiction going on there, mate. Serbian army could only be stopped by orders from General Mladić or President Karadžić. You need to research more to get the answer to why Žepa and Goražde weren't attacked with so much force like Srebrenica was. Your guests forgot to mention that no UNPROFOR were there to protect the Serbian village of Kravica in January 1993, when Naser Orić's muslim paramilitary forces massacred hundreds of Serbians on the Orthodox Christmas only, the 7th of January 1993. Each DEMILITARISED enclave, Srebrenica, Žepa and Goražde had local commanders like Orić with thousands of ARMED forces, who kept entering Serbian villages during 1992-95 and killing EVERYONE THEY CAUGHT. General Mladić warned the UN forces of what was going on many times, and as there was no response to stop the muslim paramilitaries killing WOMEN, CHILDREN AND ELDERLY, he decided to move into Srebrenica. At least, he let the women, children and elderly GO. Armed men fighting their way out through bushes were shot, and a large number of prisoners, for which there is absolutely no excuse. But can you imagine what killing over 8 thousand in a day or two could look like, is it really possible? Maybe in bad Hollywood movies...The number of Bosnian muslim forces killed during Operation Krivaja (Serbian Army codename for that action which went for several days) does not exceed 1300 maximum, according to real sources who actually were there the whole time, supported by extensive investigations in following months and years.The truth is that the whole muslim army casualties of the Eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina were buried in Srebrenica, and portrayed as "the victims of genocide". Look up the ratio between Bosnian Muslim, Serb and Croat armies in active personnel during the war, or even the ratio between general population on the three sides, and then compare them to the casualties on all three sides during that war. You will see right away that term "genocide" cannot be used there at all, unless it has been adapted to some modern values, evaluated, and then applied to all three sides!!! Of course, if you WANT TO SEE. Also, your guests should learn that at that time, we were all BOSNIAN, but Bosnian Serbs, Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats. Bosnia and Herzegovina does not belong to Bosnian Muslims only. You should also learn that Radovan Karadžić was no rebel nor invader, he was legally ELECTED representative of the Bosnian Serb people, as the constitutive subject to the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and his and his people's political and social demands during the break up of Yugoslavia were bluntly ignored, primarily by the Bosnian Muslim leadership. You don't know much about this topic to confidently public vague films about it on RU-vid. Maybe you should interview Commander Thom Karremans or General Lewis MacKenzie to get a clearer picture, if you don't like talking to the Serbian representatives or components from this conflict. Bad try...

Zepa, small...gorazde medium...srebrenica large.......

@@dutchwolflord5859 kind of see his point, but also he was in command - he had the chance to stand and fight or not to and as commander of a UN force in the area his duty was clear.

Abandoned houses/farms and loads of deers and boar in that region

It is bullshit the city was trapped since 1992 and what this guys do is "Stolen Valor" and promotion of his book.

Not blowing his trumpet reserved but will gladly switch

​@@Bossnierprove hes got stolen valour. What's your source and why haven't others called him out ?

That brutal srb army .....its something what in my opinion will do anyone for his own country what this ,,efort,,of nato totaly destroy

Its no justice when someone judge just one side and under his own interest

Brutal Serb Army you kept half disabled...? 😂😂😂😂😂

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