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Bosnian Muslims Disarmed After Firing on Czech Peacekeepers ‘The Czechs got out of their vehicle, surrounded the house and without a single shot disarmed two Muslim civilians, confiscating two submachine guns and four magazines with cartridges.’ —IFOR Incident Report SARAJEVO, July 26 (Reuters) - Two Muslim civilians fired automatic weapons at Czech peacekeeping soldiers on night patrol in northwest Bosnia and were swiftly disarmed without casualties, NATO said on Friday. The Czechs, members of the NATO-led peace Implementation Force (IFOR), came under fire on Thursday night as they drove their armoured combat vehicle in the zone of separation between Muslim and Serb territories, near the village of Memici. "They heard a series of shots from submachine guns close to the zone... As they approached the place where the fire was coming from, they were directly battered (fired on) from a nearby house," an IFOR statement said. "The Czechs got out of their vehicle, surrounded the house and without a single shot disarmed two Muslim civilians, confiscating two submachine guns and four magazines with cartridges," it said. IFOR referred the incident to the U.N.-affiliated International Police Task Force, which helps maintain law-and- order and deter human rights abuses in Bosnia. The statement did not say whether the assailants were freed or handed over to local police. NATO and IPTF spokesmen were not immediately available for clarification. Shooting attacks on members of IFOR have been very rare since it deployed last December. IFOR separated and demobilised Serb, Croat and Muslim armies without incident and non-NATO weapons are banned from former confrontation zones under a demilitarisation regime.

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