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U.K. Media Coverage of Srebrenica of Muslim men were massacred.” 52 In the Daily Telegraph, Oric was described as “the Muslim commander of Srebrenica who fought off a hugely superior Serb army for several years,” and it was noted that “The survivors of the Srebrenica massacre in 1995 have pledged to protect Oric, although many Sarajevans accuse him of enriching himself on the proceeds of the war.” 53 These same accusations were reported when Oric was arrested by NATO on behalf of the ICTY in April 2003. The Independent ran an article detailing the crimes of which he was accused, but also describing him as “widely praised in Bosnia for defending Muslims from Serb attackers.” 54 Overall, the image of Naser Oric as the “Muslim Robin Hood” remained intact. Concluding Note Coverage of the fall of the Srebrenica safe area by four leading U.K. newspapers exemplifies a pattern true for the Western media overall, whereby efforts in early and mid-July 1995 to ascertain the facts and to provide some relevant context in a difficult wartime situation quickly surrendered to a more sensationalistic tendency to dramatize a standard perpetrator-and-victim narrative which, from late July through October 1995, would generate the official version of the Srebrenica Massacre. Thus by late July 1995, coverage had already descended to the superficial and the biased. It surely did not clarify issues for the reading public, but reinforced the party line that villainized the Bosnian Serbs and treated the Bosnian Muslims as their unique victims. The background to the events of July 1995 was far from prominent even in early accounts, and virtually disappeared from later coverage. The scale and the brutality of killings of Serbs in the 32 months before July 1995 was ignored, and Naser Oric, the Bosnian Muslim fighter who commanded these large-scale killings, was portrayed as a noble defender of his comrades, not as a war criminal. Despite the appearance of varying and contradictory estimates, the numbers killed at Srebrenica in July 1995 and the manner of their deaths were never seriously examined in our media sample, and the role of the West and ICTY was also treated uncritically. Journalists’ apparently keen sense of Western ‘humiliation’ at Srebrenica seems to have encouraged them to turn the historical events of July 1995 into an ahistorical morality tale, replete with echoes of World War II, which could then be mobilised to justify further Western intervention 272
U.K. Media Coverage of Srebrenica in the region, most immediately in the US-supported Croatian assault on Krajina Serbs. Notes 1 This chapter analyzes coverage of Srebrenica in four U.K. broadsheet newspapers: The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, and The Guardian. Three periods are examined: early July 1995; late July - October 1995; and January - December 2001. Articles were acquired for each of the periods specified by electronically searching the ProQuest newspapers database for articles with ‘Srebrenica’ in their title. 2 Christopher Bellamy, “Serbs turn firepower on Srebrenica,” The Independent, July 7, 1995, p. 15. 3 Ian Traynor and Julian Borger, “Serbs defy UN air raid threat Dutch ‘blue helmets’ in Srebrenica find themselves shot by both sides as safe haven faces new shelling,” The Guardian, July 11, 1995, p. 11. 4 Michael Evans and Tom Rhodes, “Capture of Srebrenica strikes mortal blow to UN credibility; Bosnia,” The Times, July 12, 1995, p. 1. 5 See above, George Bogdanich, Ch. 2, “Prelude to the Capture of Srebrenica,” esp. the section “Manipulating the Safe Areas.” 6 Ian Traynor, “Third time unlucky for unsafe area Ian Traynor traces the tortuous antecedents to the defiant Serbian conquest of Srebrenica,” The Guardian, July 13, 1995, p. 11. 7 Martin Woollacott, “Sacrifice and salvation: The loss of Srebrenica is heartbreaking but, says Martin Woollacott, it could improve the chances of saving Sarajevo and stopping the Bosnian Serbs,” The Guardian, July 13, 1995, p. 15. 8 Michael Evans, “Muslim soldiers ‘failed to defend town from Serbs’; Assault On Srebrenica; The Balkans,” The Times, July 14, 1995, p. 1. 9 “The fall of Srebrenica,” Editorial, The Independent, July 13, 1995, p. 16. 10 “Beyond the killing fields of Srebrenica,” Editorial, The Independent, July 15, 1995, p. 16. 11 Michael Evans and Tom Rhodes, “Capture of Srebrenica strikes mortal blow to UN credibility; Bosnia,” The Times, July 12, 1995, p. 1. 12 Ian Traynor, “Third time unlucky for unsafe area Ian Traynor traces the tortuous antecedents to the defiant Serbian conquest of Srebrenica,” The Guardian, July 13, 1995, p. 11. 13 Martin Woollacott, “Sacrifice and salvation The loss of Srebrenica is heartbreaking but, says Martin Woollacott, it could improve the chances of saving Sarajevo and stopping the Bosnian Serbs,” The Guardian, July 13, 1995, p. 15. 14 John Sweeney, “UN memo to Bosnia: Surrender safe areas It took the United Nations four days before it agreed to act over Srebrenica - and then it was too late. Amid the limousines, paperwork and a man in a sombrero, John Sweeney reports 273
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Bosnia and Herzegovina, Summer 1995
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FOREWORD Phillip Corwin On July 11,
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PREFACE Edward S. Herman Srebrenica
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