Scot plays key role in stopping weapons from Balkans getting to terrorists A SCOT has told of her ordeal in playing a crucial role in preventing weapons from the Balkans falling into the hands of criminals and terrorists around the world. Glasgow-born regularly finds herself surrounded by pistols, machine guns and rocket launchers, as she leads a team helping the army of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) officially register a massive stockpile of over 60,000 arms. The 24-year-old heads up a HALO Trust task force funded by the UK Government and other donors, with the aim of tightening up security around the Bosnian military’s massive arsenal.
Young Scots woman preventing terrorists getting hands on lethal weapons
Steph Barnwell from Glasgow plays a crucial role in protecting pistols, machine guns and rocket launchers from being used by the wrong people.
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Steph Barnwell leads a team helping the army of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) officially register a massive stockpile of over 60,000 arms. (Image: Supplied)
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Just a few days before the UK signed its Brexit agreement with Brussels in December, British troops returned home from Bosnia, leaving the EU to deal with Operation Althea on its own.
Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with the Serb member of Bosnia s tripartite inter-ethnic presidency, Milorad Dodik, in Belgrade, Serbia January 17, 2019. [Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via Reuters]
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Dayton Accords. The landmark agreement between Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, which officially ended the deadliest conflict on European soil since World War II, was brokered by the United States at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, some three weeks before its signing in Paris, France on December 14, 1995.
The peace accord not only marked the end of the three-and-a-half-year Bosnian war, which resulted in about 100,000 deaths, left another two million people displaced, and paved the way for the Srebrenica genocide, but also outlined a complex constitutional framework for peace in Bosnia, dividing the internationally recognised sov