The Srebrenica Massacre - Nova Srpska Politicka Misao

U.K. Media Coverage of Srebrenica
from the torpor of UN headquarters in Zagreb,” The Guardian, July 16, 1995,
p. 14.
15 Robert Block, “‘River killings’ shed light on scale of horror after the fall of Srebrenica,”
The Independent, July 25, 1995, p. 8.
16 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
from the torpor of UN headquarters in Zagreb,” The Guardian, July 16, 1995,
p. 14.
17 Julian Borger, “Eyewitnesses tell of executions and burnt bodies Julian Borger reports
from Tuzla on the full story of horror now emerging about last week in Srebrenica,”
The Guardian, July 16, 1995, p.1.
18 Christopher Bellamy, “Thousands still missing after fall of Srebrenica,” The Independent,
July 20, 1995, p. 10.
19 Julian Borger, “More atrocities feared in Zepa attack Srebrenica refugees confirm
reports of rape and murder. Fate of missing thousands unknown as Serbs deny
UN and Red Cross access,” The Guardian, July 17, 1995, p. 8.
20 Robert Block, “‘River killings’ shed light on scale of horror after the fall of Srebrenica,”
The Independent, July 25, 1995, p. 8.
21 Emma Daly and Robert Block, “Srebrenica fighters ‘executed by Serbs’,” The Independent,
August 1, 1995, p. 7.
22 Ian Black, “UN envoy condemns ‘barbaric’ Serbs. Fears grow for 7,000 Muslims
missing from Srebrenica,” The Guardian, July 25, 1995, p. 9.
23 James Bone and Eve-Ann prentice, “UN seeks access to Srebrenica sites of alleged
mass grave; Bosnia,” The Times, August 12, 1995, p. 1.
24 “The situation in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina” (S/PV.3564), UN
Security Council, August 10, 1995, p. 6.
25 John Sweeney, “The Observer picture essay: No man’s land. These are the survivors
of Srebrenica - women, girls, young boys and a few old men. They fled
the Bosnian town as it fell to Serb forces. When they reached a UN refugee camp
near Tuzla it was clear that they had seen terrible things. Ten days ago the American
government released hard evidence of a massacre of up to 2,700 men and
boys from Srebrenica and their burial in mass graves. These photographs are a
portrait of ethnic cleansing,” The Guardian, August 20, 1995, p. 18.
26 David Rohde, “Witness finds evidence of Serb killing fields. The first journalist
has reached the scene where mass graves are believed to hold Bosnian Muslims executed
when the former ‘safe havens’ of Srebrenica and Zepa fell in July,” The
Guardian, August 19, 1995, p. 10. For a critical discussion of Rohde’s “discovery,”
see Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, “The Dismantling of Yugoslavia,”
Monthly Review, Vol. 59, No. 5, October, 2007, . As these authors put it, “Rohde’s performance was
reminiscent of what we witnessed several years later in the interplay between the
media and official U.S. and U.K. claims about Iraq’s WMD programs and ties to
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