BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA: BOSNIAN GOVERNMENT SOLDIERS SPEAK ABOUT SERBIAN ATROCITIES IN SRENRENICA.

Record ID: 646180

  • Title: BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA: BOSNIAN GOVERNMENT SOLDIERS SPEAK ABOUT SERBIAN ATROCITIES IN SRENRENICA.
  • Date: 18th July 1995
  • Summary: UNDISCLOSED LOCATION NEAR TUZLA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (JULY 18, 1995) 1. GV: BOSNIAN GOVERNMENT SOLDIERS RESTING AND TALKING AMONG THEMSELVES (4 SHOTS) 0.45 2. MV: ONE BOSNIAN GOVERNMENT FIGHTER SPEAKING OF PEOPLE HAVING NOSES AND EARS CUT OFF BY BOSNIAN SERBS AND PEOPLE BEING KILLED WITH HAND GRENADES (SERBO-CROAT) 1.33 3. MV: SOLDIER CRYING 1.54 4. MCU: A WOMAN BOSNIAN GOVERNMENT FIGHTER SPEAKS OF BOSNIAN SERB COMMANDER RATKO MLADIC TELLING REFUGEES IN A BUS FROM SREBRENICA THAT THEY WOULD SOON FLEE FROM TUZLA AS THEY HAD FROM SREBRENICA (SERBO-CROAT) 2.36 4. MCU: MALE GOVERNMENT SOLDIER SAYING THE UNITED NATIONS TROOPS REFUSED TO RETURN BOSNIAN SERB FIRE DURING THE SREBRENICA ATTACK, QUOTING THEIR RULES OF ENGAGEMENT (SERBO-CROAT) 3.24 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 2nd August 1995 13:00
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  • Location: UNDISCLOSED LOCATION, NEAR TUZLA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
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  • Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Reuters ID: LVADIHNYUOH24JEP4ZHIJAXQ78E7
  • Story Text: Bosnian Government soldiers who attempted to resist the Bosnian Serb assault on Srebrenica and escaped across country rested near Tuzla on Tuesday (July 18) and spoke of their experiences.

    Some spoke of atrocities perpetrated by Bosnian Serbs.

    One Bosnian Government soldier said Bosnian Serbs cut the ears and noses off living people. He said he saw Bosnian Serbs strap hand grenades to the heads of Bosnian government soldiers' heads and then explode them.

    He added that a captured Bosnian Serb officer had said a force of over 20,000 Bosnian Serb soldiers had been available for the onslaught on Srebrenica.

    Another Government soldier said she had been on a bus from Srebrenica on which the Bosnian Serb Army Commander General Ratko Mladic had ridden as a passenger.

    During the journey, she said, he had told the Bosnian Moslems that they could either go to Hungary or to Tuzla, but if they went to Tuzla they would soon be fleeing again as they had from Srebrenica.


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