The Srebrenica Massacre - Nova Srpska Politicka Misao

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have taken place, the Serbs have been hiding it damn well. Thus,
I don’t believe any of it. The day after the collapse of Srebrenica,
July 13, I arrived in Bratunac and stayed there for eight days. I
was able to go wherever I wanted to. I was granted all possible
assistance; nowhere was I stopped.”
So the official version of what happened in and around Srebrenica in
July 1995 rests heavily on the testimony of a small number of individuals
who have regularly contradicted themselves. Others who have spoken
to the media have also given accounts that test credibility to the
limits—for example, a report for BBC Newsnight in 1999 included this
“witness” narrative:
This mother she fell on the side of the truck and broke her
neck [demonstrates bringing both hands to her neck]. But as
she slid down she grabbed my legs asking me to help her. I could
not help her. I was holding my own child. She had a baby and
I just managed to lift the baby with my leg to save her baby. My
son was saying “Mum, I will die do not let go of me, hold me
with both your hands”. I said, “Son, let me save this tiny baby
as well. Its mother is dead”. When we finally reached Tuzla I
handed the baby to the Red Cross and told them his mother is
dead. I bathed that baby in Coca Cola. 41
Despite spending five days at the Tuzla airport refugee camp, where
well over 20,000 Srebrenica survivors were gathered, the UN chief investigator
into human rights abuses could find no eyewitnesses to atrocities:
After five days of interviews the United Nations chief investigator
into alleged human rights abuses during the fall of Srebrenica
has not found any first hand witnesses of atrocities...
[UN High Commissioner for Human Rights] Mr Hubert
Wieland said yesterday “we have not found anyone who saw
with their own eyes an atrocity taking place.”...Mr Wieland
travelled to Tuzla, the Bosnian city where almost all of the Srebrenica
refugees were taken, with a team of investigators to
gather evidence of human rights abuses….He said his team had
spoken to scores of Muslims at the main refugee camp at Tuzla
airfield and at other collective centres but no first hand witnesses
had been found. 42
The Dutch authors of the most comprehensive report on Srebrenica
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