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A total of 49,000 refugees were evacuated from
Sarajevo aboard "Kikaš" between 12 April and 3 May 1992 by Popov and other aircrew. JAT tried to register "Kikaš" for civilian use, but lacking technical data on the aircraft, were unsuccessful.The aircraft was subsequently sold to Afghanistan's Northern
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Zagreb airport was the scene of fighting between the JNA and the
Croatian police and was only partly controlled by the JNA, though the JNA successfully seized control of the aircraft upon landing. Croatian forces had attacked the control tower and blocked roads in and out of the airport. The aircraft
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As they approached their destination, the pilot of the aeroplane mistakenly informed
Yugoslav air controllers that they were bound for Ljubljana, not Trieste. Suspicious, and since the aircraft was now headed for what was officially Yugoslav airspace, the Yugoslav authorities scrambled two Yugoslav
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Ugandan Airlines Boeing 707-328C, registration number 5X-UCM, named "Kikaš" by the Serbs, was subsequently used by them in military operations in both Croatia and Bosnia, beginning with their withdrawal from Zagreb airport under attack from the Croatian military (who they called "Zengas").
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aircrew who had last flown a 707 ten years before and who flew into the airport aboard an
Antonov transport and flew out aboard "Kikaš", directly over the Croatian "Zengas". "Kikaš" was subsequently used during the evacuation of the families of JNA personnel and other civilians from Bihać and
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and its contents were seized by the
Yugoslavs, and Kikaš was arrested and sent to a military prison in Belgrade for interrogation after receiving a beating at the airport. After three months in prison, on 25 November 1991, Kikaš was exchanged in return for
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Croatian war of independence he raised money from the Croatian émigré community in Canada and, with the agreement of the Croatian Ministry of the Interior, used it to purchase arms in South Africa. He hired a
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Croatia. A film entitled
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during a visit by
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in 1968. In Canada he became active in the Croat community there, and in 1987 was involved in the establishment of the department of
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business man who was arrested for arms smuggling by Yugoslav authorities on 31 August 1991 during the
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assault rifles and ammunition. Kikaš was the only passenger on the flight, which had a crew of six.
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to ship these arms, with the plan that they would file a flight-plan to fly to
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refused repatriation of the Uganda Airlines crew, calling them "mercenaries".
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visited Toronto in September 1991, he passed this message on to him.
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