DID YOU KNOW?  -- Three years before the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide, Serbs torched Bosniak villages and killed at least 3,166 Bosniaks around Srebrenica. In 1993, the UN described the besieged situation in Srebrenica as a "slow-motion process of genocide." In July 1995, Serbs forcibly expelled 25,000 Bosniaks, brutally raped many women and girls, and systematically killed 8,000+ men and boys (DNA confirmed).

15 August, 2010

DESPERATION AND RESISTANCE IN PRE-GENOCIDE SREBRENICA (VIDEO)

Tony Birtley reporting for ABC News; Srebrenica, Eastern Bosnia. (March 1993)
The footage is courtesy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), uncovered by Daniel Toljaga from the ICTY Court database.

"You will be able to see, what Tony Birtley described, as 'the sheer panic and the desperation of the people. And to see women to throw their babies into the back of trucks and hope that someone will grab them and take them to safety.' In addition, there are very rare scenes of Srebrenica defenders, including a battle tank they managed to capture from the Serbs."


posted by Srebrenica Genocide at 6:45 PM