DID YOU KNOW?  -- Three years before the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide, Serbs torched Bosniak villages and killed at least 3,166 Bosniaks around Srebrenica. In 1993, the UN described the besieged situation in Srebrenica as a "slow-motion process of genocide." In July 1995, Serbs forcibly expelled 25,000 Bosniaks, brutally raped many women and girls, and systematically killed 8,000+ men and boys (DNA confirmed).

27 April, 2013

SIEGE OF SREBRENICA: BACK TO 1992 WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

Guest Post: Daniel Toljaga

The following is a rare footage from the besieged Srebrenica that I unearthed from the court database of the Hague Tribunal. The footage was taken in August of 1992. It shows Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) civilians in the besieged enclave of Srebrenica hiding in the woods from Serb forces that destroyed surrounding Bosnian Muslim villages.



The above video is a good compliment to my Prelude to the Srebrenica Genocide: Mass murder and ethnic cleansing of Bosniaks in the Srebrenica region during the first three months of the Bosnian War (April-June 1992). I also recommend Tony Birtley’s reporting from the besieged Srebrenica (1993), which I re-published (with author’s permission) in three segments:

1. Starvation in Pre-Genocide Srebrenica – Tony Birtley, part 1/3



2. Desperation and Resistance in Pre-Genocide Srebrenica – Tony Birtley, part 2/3

3. Scenes from Hell in Pre-Genocide Srebrenica – Tony Birtley, part 3/3


posted by Srebrenica Genocide at 11:21 AM