Ambush, UNPROFOR, Guylaine Plamondon, interview
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This interview was recorded for the Balkans 35th Commemoration,a volunteer, veteran-led initiative. Our mission is to commemorate the 35thAnniversary of Canada’s contribution to peacekeeping and stability operationsin the Balkans. For more interviews, photos, videos, and oral historiesdocumenting the experiences of Canadians deployed to the Balkans, please visitour website: https://balkans35.ca/
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 the Republic of 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).
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