The Srebrenica Massacre - Nova Srpska Politicka Misao

U.K. Media Coverage of Srebrenica
had witnessed the fall of Srebrenica. O’Brien said that “After Auschwitz,
they said something like that could never happen in Europe again….But
it did, and UN troops were there to watch it.” 38
(iii) The bodies in Tuzla
A number of articles mentioned the bodies in the morgue in Tuzla as
proof of the Srebrenica massacre. Despite the established estimate of
7,000 - 8,000 dead, there were still varying accounts of the numbers
killed.
In April 2001, The Guardian said that, as against the ICRC estimate
of “7,300 men and boys” massacred at Srebrenica, “Relatives of the
missing estimate the death toll to be closer to 10,000.” The report said
that “By September last year 4,000 bodies had been exhumed from mass
graves around the town, but only 76 had been identified with any certainty.”
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In July, The Independent’s Kate Holt said that “it is now thought that
nearly 9,000 men were slaughtered,” though she did not make clear
why this was thought, nor who thought it. She did, however, say that
“So far, more than 4,700 bodies have been uncovered….Only 180 of
these bodies have so far been identified.” 40 If these figures were accurate,
they would imply that 700 more bodies were discovered between April
and July 2001, and that a further 104 had been identified.
A few days after Holt’s report, The Independent ran an article by a
(presumably) Bosnian Muslim journalist, Nedim Dervisbegovic, reporting
from Sarajevo that “Bosnian Muslim officials say they have
found a mass grave in eastern Bosnia containing more than 200 victims
of the Srebrenica massacre in which up to 8,000 Muslims died.” Note
that in Sarajevo it is apparently thought that “up to 8,000” died, not
9,000 or 10,000. Dervisbegovic quoted one official describing this as
“one of the biggest findings in a single mass grave we have had so
far….It is difficult to say exactly how many bodies were there but it is
definitely more than 200.” The article said that “Some 4,500 bodies of
Srebrenica victims have been found in individual and mass graves or
scattered in woods in eastern Bosnia.” 41
Three days later, The Independent carried another article about Srebrenica,
this time stating that “Almost 8,000 disappeared,” but predicting
that “By the end of this year, the bodies of some 6,000 massacre
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