 The fighting was blamed on a number of factors, including the "ethnic cleansing" of Muslims from the nearby village of Prozor by HVO forces, troops from outside the area "stirring up trouble", and dissatisfaction among the 56% Muslim majority in the town with the Geneva peace plan, tentatively agreed a week earlier, which would leave Gornji Vakuf in a Croat-controlled canton.During the negotiations, the British received a request to escort an ambulance carrying three injured civilian women through the town and on to the nearest medical facility.Two "Warriors" were assigned to protect them, with one positioned at the front of the ambulance and one at the rear.