-Caveat Lector-
"The order for the TV station to stop broadcasting was issued by the
'Independent Media Commission,' a panel of international officials that is
charged with regulating broadcasting media in postwar Bosnia.
"The IMC has the authority to call in the NATO-led Stabilization Force,
SFOR, to make sure the station goes off the air."
Bosnian Serb TV Station Banned
By AIDA CERKEZ-ROBINSON
.c The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- A Bosnian Serb TV station was ordered to
stop broadcasting because its coverage of the Kosovo crisis was deemed
inflammatory and inaccurate, a senior international official said Thursday.
The program of Kanal S, based in the wartime Bosnian Serb stronghold of Pale,
near Sarajevo, ``had a very inflammatory'' program, said Alexandra
Stiglmayer, the spokeswoman for Bosnia's top international official, Carlos
Westendorp.
The order to stop broadcasting was issued Wednesday by the Independent Media
Commission, a panel of international and local officials that is charged with
regulating and licensing broadcasting media in postwar Bosnia.
It came after Kanal S failed to respond to previous warnings to stop its
biased reporting of NATO airstrikes intended to force Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw his forces from Kosovo, a province of Serbia,
the dominant republic of Yugoslavia.
The station has rallied to back fellow Serbs under attack. The station has
failed to report, for example, on the tens of thousands of ethnic Albanian
refugees forced from their homes by Milosevic's forces and has portrayed the
Serbs as victims of NATO aggression.
If the station does not comply, Westendorp's office will ask local
authorities to enforce the order. If they ignore it, Westendorp, who is
responsible for carrying out the Dayton peace plan that ended Bosnia's 3
1/2-year war, will consider other options, Stiglmayer said.
Ultimately, Westendorp has the authority to call in the NATO-led
Stabilization Force, SFOR, deployed in Bosnia to make sure the station goes
off the air.
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