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The Bosnian Muslim army kept the people in the city and wouldn't allow them to leave.

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Is that why the tunnel was constructed UNDER Sarajevo Airport? It was used by Bosniak refugees and as a supply conduit into and out of the city over Mt Igman. The tunnel was made necessary by the deal made between the UN and the surrounding Serbian forces for continued UN usage of the airport.

The tunnel was for ARMS smuggling for their army. The Yugoslav army turned the tunnel over to the UN by late June 1992 already, on condition that it would be used for HUMANITARIAN purposes only. The UN did not abide by that agreement and allowed weapons and Bosniak military men to use it liberally. General Morillon is quoted as how the Bosnian Muslims wouldn't allow able bodied men out of Sarajevo because it wanted them in the army. Women and children were kept for propaganda purposes. Naser Oric and his army 8-10 thousand+ strong would not allow civilians out of Srebrenica either. There are articles of the UN half-heartedly attempting to evacuate civilians only to be threatened or stopped by Muslims. Muslims had check points all around the area they controlled.

Milosevic read out a quite interesting quotation from Lord Owen’s book. Owen says, "in Sarajevo, it became increasingly clear that in fact there were two sieges of the town, one which was implemented by the Bosnian Serb army with shells, sniper fire and blockades, and another by the army of the Bosnian government which prevented their people from leaving through internal blockades and bureaucratic complications. Able-bodied men from 18 to 65 and women from 18 to 60 were not allowed to leave because they were essential for the defense of the town, but their main reason was a different one. The Serb siege in the propaganda war evoked compassion on the part of the world, and that is why they needed the elderly and the children to remain. That was their most emotional propaganda weapon to draw the Americans into the war, and they didn't want that to weaken."
In response Morillon said, “Well, I am not denying what Lord Owen may have written.” He then went on to say that “the Bosniaks used the presence of their population, as you have just said, to keep the attention of the world focused on their situation, it is true, but similarly they prevented the evacuation from Srebrenica.”
So not only did the Muslims hold their population hostage in Sarajevo as a propaganda ploy to win world sympathy, but they did the same thing in Srebrenica where, as Morillon explained earlier, Nasir Oric was terrorizing even the Muslim population.
Morillon explained in his statement that "The aim of the [Bosnian Muslim] Presidency from the very outset was to ensure the intervention of international forces for their own benefit, and that is one of the reasons why they never were inclined to engage in talks. In those days, the Serbs were ready for talks since they considered that they were winning. Whenever such an agreement was signed on humanitarian corridors, the problems came from the Presidency. Finally, the corridors would be accepted. The beginning of their implementation was to be the withdrawal of heavy weapons, which should have taken place at 1700 hours on the 24th of December. However, on that day, my residence in Sarajevo was shelled. The shell was fired by the Bosnian forces. That is quite certain."
http://slobodan-milosevic.ihostsites.net/news/smorg030904.htm

that tunnel was conduint upon a payoff to the bos muslis to enter and travel down it.