HU OSA 377-0-1 Subject Files

Identity Statement

Reference Code
HU OSA 377-0-1
Title
Subject Files
Date(s)
1992 - 2000
Description Level
Series
Extent and medium (processed)
13 Archival boxes, 1.62 linear meters

Context

Name of creator(s)
Rohde, David
Archival history
Documents in this series were digitized and posted in the Digital Repository in the summer of 2021. By separate agreements and consent from the donor, copies of the digitized files were placed at the Srebrenica Memorial Center Archive in Potocari, and the History Museum in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in the same year.

Content and Structure

Scope and Content (Abstract)
Materials in this series include press clippings and briefings, news agency releases, memos, reports, transcripts of trials and eyewitness accounts, correspondence, manuscripts and copies of photographs.

These are background materials pertaining to the fall of Srebrenica collected by the journalist David Rohde, who, covering the war in Bosnia for the Christian Science Monitor, was the first Western journalist to visit - without the permission of the Bosnian Serb Army (BSA) - and report on the sites where thousands of Muslims were massacred when the Serbs took control of the UN-protected 'safe area’.

Declassified US Government and State Department documents, confidential UN and NATO communications, encompassing reports from other governmental and also non-governmental human rights organizations, as well as an extensive media coverage in various languages give an overall insight on how the events unfolded and what was the role of the major 'participants’ previous to, during and after “the fall and betrayal" of Srebrenica in July 1995.
Accruals

Not Expected

Conditions of Access and Use

Conditions governing access
Not restricted
Languages
Bosnian, Croatian, Dutch; Flemish, English, French, German, Serbian
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Generally good physical condition, but some fax messages, photocopies and manuscripts are frail and hardly legible.

Notes

Note
Initially arranged and described by Csaba Szilagyi in 2005. Additional material processed, rearranged and description revised by Csaba Szilagyi and students of the Archives and Evidentiary Practices Specialization: Vlad Moghiorosi, Stephen Westlake, Niklas Wittmann, Erzsebet Arvay, Stephanie Haszczyn, Yana Kitaeva and Mariia Zimina in 2017-2018 and 2020.

Description Control

Archivist's note
Processed by Csaba Szilagyi, Vlad Moghiorosi, Stephen Westlake, Niklas Wittmann, Erzsebet Arvay, Stephanie Haszczyn, Yana Kitaeva and Mariia Zimina, 2005-2020.
Call Number Description
Archival boxes #1
377-0-1:1/1
Akashi, Yasushi [UN Under Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs], 1995 - 1996
Draft report of the UN Secretary General on the implementation of the mandate of UNPROFOR.
Response to a letter from Radovan Karadžić by the United Nations’ Secretary General.
Correspondence between Kofi Annan and Yasushi Akashi.
UN press briefing on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina from May 16, 1995.
377-0-1:1/2
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch: [Reports], 1995
Amnesty International report on the missing persons from Srebrenica.
Human Rights Watch release on the fall of Srebrenica.
Human Rights Watch report on the fall of Srebrenica and the failure of the UN peacekeeping mission in Bosnia.
377-0-1:1/3
Annan, Kofi, 1995
Minutes from a meeting between the UNSGSR, General Smith, and Bernard Janvier.
Communication between Yasushi Akashi and Kofi Annan: the shelling of Srebrenica and the civilian casualties are reported.
Press briefing by under-Secretary-General for Human Affairs, Yasushi Akashi in which he offers reasons why UN could not be criticized for doing the best they could in Srebrenica.
Summary of the Secretary General’s briefing to the Security Council on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina from May 16, 1995.
Letter from Yasushi Akashi to Yuri Miakotnykh in which he asks from Miakotnykh to contact Milošević in regard of the Bosnian Serb Army attack on the safe area of Srebrenica.
Several letters from Yasushi Akashi to Kofi Annan reporting on the situation with the Dutchbat in Srebrenica.
377-0-1:1/4
CIA Spy Photos of Graves and Destroyed Villages, 1992 - 1996
Letter by Lee S. Strickland, information and privacy coordinator at the CIA, to David Rohde, informing him that they cannot provide him access to imagery taken by satellites in the region of Srebrenica.
Satellite imagery from Bešnjevo, Vosnik, Zvornik, Goražde, Trebinje and Donja Pilica.
377-0-1:1/5
Daalder, Ivo: [Excerpt from the book Getting to Dayton], 2000
Excerpts from Ivo Daalder’s book “Getting to Dayton” .
377-0-1:1/6
Disappearances in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1998
Disappearances in Bosnian and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995: a report draft by Renate French.
377-0-1:1/7
Dutchbat: [Accounts], 1995 - 1996
Captain Jelte Groen from the Dutchbat in Srebrenica writes his personal experiences and views on the fall of Srebrenica.
Preface of a book by Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas J.P. Karremans.
Various agency news and press clippings in Dutch from July to September, 1995.
377-0-1:1/8
Dutchbat: [Documents, Interviews], 1995 - 1997
Appendix to letter number TK9589 from June 5, 1995 from the Dutchbat on the situation in Srebrenica.
Report on the south side of the enclave.
Telephone conversation between General Nicolai and Colonel Marković.
Press conference at Camp Pleso by Thomas Karremans from July 23, 1995.
Reports on the humanitarian situation in the enclave of Srebrenica by the Dutchbat in Srebrenica.
Assessment of the supplies of the Dutchbat.
Testimony of Wim Dijkema of what happened before the fall of the Srebrenica enclave.
Description of the events in the Srebrenica enclave from July 12, 1995.
377-0-1:1/9
Dutchbat: [Tribunal Testimony], 1996
Testimony of Colonel Thomas Karremans in front of the ICTY.
Archival boxes #2
377-0-1:2/1
Dutch Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs and the Dutch Parliament, 1995 - 1996
Reconstruction of the events in the Srebrenica enclave from July, 1995.
Correspondence between David Rhode and Djoeke Koekkoek from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Questions from David Rohde to the New York Times and answers to those questions.
Letters from the Dutch Ministry of Defense to the Speakers of the Lower and the Upper House of the Dutch Parliament.
Debriefing report on Srebrenica from the Dutch Ministry of Defence.
377-0-1:2/2
Dutch Ministry of Defense: [Report], 1995
Report by the Dutch Ministry of Defence based on the debriefing on Srebrenica.
377-0-1:2/3
Engelberg, Stephen, 1995 - 1996
Mladić’s truth against Hague’s lies.
Days of slaughter: how the Serbs’ killing of Srebrenica unfolded.
NBC interview with Richard Hoolbrooke.
Izetbegović blames UN for the fall of Srebrenica.
Briefing by Yasushi Akashi.
Refugee reports: the death march from Srebrenica.
377-0-1:2/4
Erdemović, Dražen, 1996
Transcripts of Erdemović’s testimony in front of the ICTY.
Indictment of Dražen Erdemović by the ICTY.
War crimes panel sentences Dražen Erdemović to 10 years.
David Rhode’s letter to Dražen Erdemović.
Translation of Le Figaro article entitled "Bosnia: a criminal’s confession".
Newsweek: death of a village.
377-0-1:2/5
Hostage Crisis, 1995
Situation assessment by UNPROFOR on the occurrences in Bosnia and Herzegovina in May 1995.
Letter from Edward Joseph to Jacque Grinberg regarding the Draft report on Bosnia and Herzegovina pursuant to the Security Council Resolution 982.
377-0-1:2/6
ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross], 1996 - 1997
The role of ICRC within their mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Correspondence between Michael Kleiner and David Rohde.
377-0-1:2/7
Janvier, Bernard, 1995 - 1996
Correspondence between David Rohde and Lex Runderkamp.
Correspondence between David Rohde and General Janvier.
Correspondence between Ratko Mladić and Bernard Janvier.
Minutes from a meeting between the UNSGSR, Akashi, Janvier and Smith on the fate of Srebrenica.
Archival boxes #3
377-0-1:3/1
Karadžić, Radovan and Mladić, Ratko: [ICTY Materials], 1995 - 1997
Excerpts from the book “Endgame” by David Rohde.
Transcripts of interviews with Radovan Karadžić, Aleksa Buha, Momčilo Krajšnik and Nikola Koljević from December 1995 on the reached peace agreement, the relations with Serbia, the mandate and mission of IFOR.
Prosecutor’s closing statement by Mark Harmon in the cases against Karadžić and Mladić.
Indictment of the ICTY against Karadžić and Mladić from November 16, 1995.
Opening statement by Eric Ostberg, senior trial attorney in the hearing against Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić in front of the ICTY.
Review of ICTY’s indictments against Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić.
377-0-1:3/2
MSF [Médecins Sans Frontières], 1995 - 1996
Psychological report of a group of former Bosniak detainees in a Serbian detention camp.
Letter from David Rohde to Christina Schmidt from the Médecins Sans Frontières Germany.
Press releases from MSF from July and August 1995.
Report by the staff of the Srebrenica hospital and he local MSF: eyewitness accounts of the evacuation from Srebrenica and the fate of missing colleagues.
Transcripts of taped eye witness accounts on the fall of Srebrenica.
377-0-1:3/3
Past Atrocities, 1987 - 1996
According to the ICRC hundreds of people are forced in what amounts to slave labor in Serb-held areas in Bosnia.
Women demand news about their men from Srebrenica.
On marking the 50th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre.
Report on the history of the killings in Lidice.
Confusion over two WWII massacres.
377-0-1:3/4
Photos from Srebrenica, 1985
Photos from the warehouse Srebreničanka from 1985.
Photos from Srebrenica from 1906 and 1985.
377-0-1:3/5
Press Accounts: [Bosnian Media], 1995 - 1998
Serbian tanks entered Srebrenica: UNPROFOR has threatened Mladić.
On the monstrosities in Srebrenica: the Chetniks were slaughtering, the Blue Helmets were observing.
List of missing persons from Bijeli Potok (Zvornik) from 1st of June 1992.
Dutch UN soldiers withdraw from their positions near Srebrenica.
Ibran Mustafić: the Presidency and the staff have sacrificed Srebrenica.
Srebrenica after one year: the real dimensions of the tragedy to be known in years but remembered in centuries.
Esad Hećimović: how they sold Srebrenica and kept their positions in the government.
New letter from Ratko Mladić to Bernard Janvier: change the ultimatums with negotiations.
Karadžić: there will be no massacre in Srebrenica, like it happened in Slavonia.
The Bosnian Serb Army is continuing with searching of the Srebrenica area to find and destroy Muslim terrorist groups.
Radovan Karadžić: the Serbs would have never attacked the so-called safe areas if they were demilitarized and didn’t function as Muslim bases for preparation of attacks.
377-0-1:3/6
Press Accounts: [British Media], 1995 - 1997
Transcript from a TV program “A Bosnian betrayal: Srebrenica”.
Carl Bildt should take colleagues advice and stop Karadžić now.
The fall of Srebrenica: an anniversary of shame and failure.
Adil Draganović: an archivist of atrocity who lives to fight for justice.
377-0-1:3/7
Press Accounts: [Dutch Media], 1995 - 1998
The UN deliberately gave up Srebrenica.
Various news related to the Dutchbat in Srebrenica in Dutch.
Correspondence between Rupert Smith and Bernard Janvier: the Dutchbat was screwed.
Emotional release at the arrival of the Dutchbat servicemen in the Netherlands.
The attack that did not come: where were the promised planes for Srebrenica?.
The fall of Srebrenica explained by the Dutch Minister of Defense, Joris Voorhoeve.
377-0-1:3/8
Press Accounts: [French Media], 1995 - 1996
Various press clippings about the fall of Srebrenica in French.
Should Janvier be held responsible for the events at Srebrenica?.
Archival boxes #4
377-0-1:4/1
Press Accounts: [German Media], 1996
The Dutch government to seek a further investigation in the case of the fall of the UN safe area, Srebrenica.
377-0-1:4/2
Press Accounts: [US Media], 1994 - 1998
Millions awaiting international reaction to the Serb offensive.
The killing fields of Bosnia.
Witness to atrocity: the UN troops stood by.
Genocide without corpses: Srebrenica was said to be Europe’s biggest atrocity since WWII, but why haven’t more bodies been found?.
Signs of mass graves found a new in Bosnia.
Srebrenica: scene from hell that drove Bosnia to peace.
US intelligence knew Serbs were planning an assault on Srebrenica.
Blood and vengeance:one family’s story of the massacre at Srebrenica and the unending war in Bosnia.
Investigating Srebrenica: three years after the fall of the enclave new truths keep popping up.
377-0-1:4/3
Press Accounts: [US Media: Newsbank], 1995 - 1996
US condemns Bosnian Serbs for the detainment of David Rohde, reporter for the Christian Science Monitor.
A former soldier in the Bosnian Serb Army told a French newspaper about his involvement in mass executions in Srebrenica in 1995.
Despite vows Karadžić and Mladić are steal leaders of the Serbs in Bosnia.
377-0-1:4/4
Press Accounts: [US Media: Newsday], 1995
Bosnian Serb tanks and infantry overrun UN observation posts and drove into Srebrenica.
The Serbs ignore dire NATO warnings.
Serbs in Bosnia blocked UN peacekeepers from receiving supplies.
Thousands of Muslims from Srebrenica are fleeing as the UN declared safe area was overrun by the Bosnian Serb forces.
In light of the fall of Srebrenica, Bill Clinton said that the UN mission in Bosnia must be strengthened or its days will be numbered.
The Serbs step up assaults against two safe areas.
Witnesses of ethnic cleansing claim that Ratko Mladić attended much of the atrocities by the Bosnian Serb forces after the fall of Srebrenica.
377-0-1:4/5
Press Accounts: [US Media: The Boston Globe], 1995 - 1996
UN officials can not confirm that Serbia sent helicopters to Bosnia in violation of its pledge not to assist Bosnian Serbs.
Bosnian Serbs block aid to Muslims in the enclaves in Eastern Bosnia.
Sarajevo airport was closed after bullets hit a UN plane.
What is the next move of the West after Bosnian Serbs' capture of the safe area of Srebrenica?.
The Pope laments the defeat of civilization in Bosnia.
US rights envoy, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, accuses Serbs of barbarous acts committed in the enclave of Srebrenica.
The Human Rights Watch says that the UN failed to protect the safe area of Srebrenica.
David Rohde, Christian Science Monitor reporter who was detained by the Bosnia Serbs has returned to the United States.
Dutch doctors have charged they were ordered not to treat injured Muslims during the fall of Srebrenica.
377-0-1:4/6
Press Accounts: [US Media: The Christian Science Monitor], 1995 - 1996
The hope that the war is over brightens the life in Goražde.
More mass graves found in Srebrenica.
The UN leaves Bosnia with the head held high.
What a city looks like after the ethnic cleansing by the Serbs?.
377-0-1:4/7
Press Accounts: [US Media: The Los Angeles Times], 1994
Washington backs the UN plan for Bosnia regarding the air support.
Brief shelling interrupts the new Sarajevo cease-fire.
Bosnian Serbs start to comply with the western ultimatum to pull their weaponry outside’s Sarajevo’s 12 miles exclusion zone.
Bosnian Serbs agree to let an airport in Northern Bosnia and Herzegovina to open for humanitarian relief flights.
The French decision to withdraw almost half of its troops from Bosnia sparks fears of a Western exodus.
Archival boxes #5
377-0-1:5/1
Press Accounts: [US Media: The Los Angeles Times], 1995
Serbs violate the no-fly zone in Bosnia.
Bosnian Serbs let UN forces resupply isolated peacekeeping units with food.
Clinton is ready to send temporary force to Bosnia to help reposition UN peacekeepers.
Bosnian Serb infantry attacked the southern edge of the UN-declared safe area of Srebrenica.
Thousands of Muslim refugees flee as Serbs overrun the UN-declared safe area of Srebrenica.
US proposes airstrikes to protect Goražde.
Both sides in the Bosnian war threaten to use UN troops as human shields.
Weary refugees wait in Tuzla after being driven by Bosnian Serbs.
Photos show mass graves of civilians from the safe area of Srebrenica.
Reports on the failure of the UN mission in Bosnia.
377-0-1:5/2
Press Accounts: [US Media: The Los Angeles Times], 1996
Bosnian Muslim refugees in Serbia to resettle in the United States.
John Shattuck sees atrocities evidence in Bosnia: up to 7000 people are missing from Srebrenica.
Bosnian Muslim women whose relatives have been missing since last year attacked the Red Cross Offices in Tuzla.
377-0-1:5/3
Press Accounts: [US Media: The New York Times], 1994
Haris Silajdžić, Bosnian Prime Minister, threw Lieutenant General Michael Rose, top UN military commander in Bosnia, out of a meeting, accusing him for blocking NATO airstrikes that would protect the Muslim enclave of Bihać.
Serbs ease curbs on UN observers.
Serbs shot down a British jet flying over Goražde.
Boutros-Ghali declared he was ready to order NATO airstrikes if his senior aid and military commander asked him to do so.
120000 Muslims trapped in Srebrenica are being starved by the Serbs who refuse to let UN to enter the enclaves to resupply its peacekeepers.
377-0-1:5/4
Press Accounts: [US Media: The New York Times] [1 of 6], 1995
After four years of war the leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia are meeting in Ohio on November 1, 1995 to begin negotiating a peace settlement.
Report on the peace talks in Dayton.
People in the Netherlands are disturbed over the failure of the Dutch soldiers in the UN peacekeeping force in Bosnia.
Muslim refugees from the so called safe area of Srebrenica gave new details about killing and rape of civilians by the Bosnian Serb Army.
Frustrated Croats are openly preparing for a major assault on a Serbian enclave.
Bosnian Muslim Troops evade UN force to raid a Serb village.
377-0-1:5/5
Press Accounts: [US Media: The New York Times] [2 of 6], 1995
Allies seem near accord to bolster Bosnia force.
Bosnian Serbs insist that NATO forgoes airstrikes.
Calling history to arms: Serbs invoke their past.
Balkan accord: for some Bosnians the return is just a dream.
US envoy in Bosnia criticizes both warring sides.
Bosnian Serbs are playing the hostage card.
The Serbs free more UN captives.
The Bosnian Government claims it will not deal with the Chief UN envoy.
NATO's bombing and the Serb hostage-taking mark a turning point in the war.
NATO gives UN officials veto on air strikes in Bosnia.
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Press Accounts: [US Media: The New York Times] [3 of 6], 1995
UN to withdraw troops from the safe area.
New evidence of mass killings in Srebrenica.
Chirac backs hunger strike over Bosnia.
Conflict in the Balkans: 8000 Muslims are missing.
Croatia expands its power in Bosnia.
US says Serbs may have tried to destroy massacre evidence.
Rights issues complicate the Bosnian talks.
Srebrenica and Žepa: two towns symbols of Serbian killings.
Shelling kills dozens in Sarajevo’s central market area.
After 40 months of hesitation NATO steps into the Bosnian war pounding Bosnian Serb targets with airstrikes.
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Press Accounts: [US Media: The New York Times] [4 of 6], 1995
Conflict in the Balkans: allies warn Bosnian Serbs of substantial air strikes if UN enclave is attacked.
The President Clinton now tries to define the role of the US in Bosnia.
Peacekeepers at the fallen enclave in Bosnia confirm some atrocities but say they saw no rapes.
Muslim refugees raise tension in the Serb village of Jasenica.
America prolongs the war in Bosnia.
After a long siege the Bosnians relish the first day of freedom.
US seeks to prove mass killings in Bosnia.
377-0-1:6/2
Press Accounts: [US Media: The New York Times] [5 of 6], 1995
Bosnian Serb troops supported by tanks and artillery advance to the edge of the Muslim-held town of Žepa.
Conflict in the Balkans: Bosnian Serbs overrun town protected by the UN.
Serbs start moving Muslims out of the captured territory.
On Bosnia’s human emergency.
Clinton is scrambling to find way to help UN in Bosnia.
US weighs a response to the French call on Bosnia.
Lessons from a disaster: the humiliation of the West in Bosnia.
US wins support from Britain for a plan to bomb the Bosnian Serbs.
377-0-1:6/3
Press Accounts: [US Media: The New York Times] [6 of 6], 1995
Start of cease-fire in Bosnia: sides meet to discuss details.
The UN suspects Serbia of aiding Serbs in Bosnia.
A dead end in Bosnia.
Allies resolve to bolster the UN peacekeeping in Bosnia.
Can the UN learn from their failures?.
The Serbian artillery bombards another Bosnian safe area.
UN warns Serbs of bombing if they attack the Dutch unit.
Boutros-Ghali said he is determined to keep UN troops in Bosnia but under a redefined mandate.
377-0-1:6/4
Press Accounts: [US Media: The New York Times], 1996
US official views evidence of mass killing in Bosnia.
Bosnian mine is thought to hold evidence of mass killings.
Many Bosnian Serbs have refused to believe that their fellow Serbs committed atrocities during the recent Yugoslav war.
US to supply important evidence for the war crime investigations by the ICTY.
UN prosecutor asks Serbs to had over war crimes suspect Dražen Erdemović.
Reports on the investigation of sites of mass executions and mass graves in Bosnia.
377-0-1:6/5
Press Accounts: [US Media: The New York Times: Story], 1992
Douglas Hurd, British Foreign Secretary delivered a sharp warning to the Serbian leaders declaring that their actions have raised the risk of a military intervention in Bosnia by the Western allies.
Lord Carrington, European Community envoy in the Balkans, resigned on the eve of the international conference on the region.
US may seek the use of force to stop Serbs’ flights over Bosnia.
Bosnia: where titans fear to tread.
Mitterand's trip to Bosnia welcomed only in Paris and Sarajevo.
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Press Accounts: [US Media: The New York Times: Story], 1993
Allies announce strategy to curb fighting in Bosnia: US offers planes but not men.
The plans for safe areas in Bosnia may need 7500 more troops.
Bosnia backs the plan for creation of safe areas despite sharp local criticism.
The UNSC resolution establishes safe areas but lacks enforcement provision.
UN officials warn that conducting airstrikes against the Serbs will imperil their peacekeeping efforts.
US agrees to declare Srebrenica, a safe haven.
Warren Christopher fails to secure European help for airdrops.
377-0-1:7/2
Press Accounts: [US Media: The New York Times: Story], 1994 - 1997
Thorvald Stoltenberg claimed that the Muslims sabotaged the last round of the Geneva peace talks.
US and NATO say that their dispute on the Bosnian war is resolved.
Spy photos indicate a mass grave at a Serb-held town.
NATO diplomat questions the details of a plan for air raids in Bosnia.
US lobbied allies for weeks before the NATO attack on the Serbs.
Dragan Opačić, Serbian witness in a war crime trial against Dušan Tadić, said that the Bosnian Government ordered him to lie.
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Press Accounts: [US Media: The Washington Post], 1993 - 1994
US rejects the French plea for tougher actions in Bosnia: Washington will not expand its military role nor impose an accord.
The UN offers Bosnians life, but no hope.
NATO has plan for massive airstrikes against Bosnian Serb forces.
Serbs move guns from Goražde, possibly for a new offensive.
Bosnian Serb gunners destroy UN fuel truck and kill a British soldier.
The Bosnian Serb forces push into the Bihać safe area: NATO allies strand by, unable to agree on response to assault.
UN rejects the call to hit the Serb.
The Bosnian Serbs free about 120 UN troops: Miločević says he arranged the release.
UN rejects NATO’s request to bomb the Bosnian Serb forces after ‘no-fly’ violations.
Bosnian Muslims seize UN arms: weapons to be used to defend enclaves from the Bosnian Serb’s attacks.
New proof offered of the Bosnian Serbs' atrocities: US analysts identify more mass graves in Bosnia.
377-0-1:7/4
Press Accounts: [US Media: The Washington Post] [1 of 2], 1995
Serbs bar UN food delivery to Bihać.
NATO and UN squabble over Bosnia: no-fly zone violations at issue.
NATO jets hit Serb site in Bosnia: the rebels strike back after bombing.
The US push for airstrikes showed to be a miscalculation.
UN and the West develop plan to move troops in Bosnia: US might fly peacekeepers out of the besieged areas.
UN relief convoy seized in east Bosnia.
The Serbs break accord: alleged ammunition was found.
The Bosnian Serbs advance in Srebrenica defying NATO warnings.
The Bosnian Serbs seize UN safe area: the fall of the Srebrenica enclave challenges UN.
The Bosnian Serb forces start expelling Muslim civilians from the seized UN enclave.
The meaning of Srebrenica.
Clinton cites challenge to UN force in Bosnia while France is urging limited military action.
The Bosnian Serb forces strike at a second UN safe area.
Archival boxes #8
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Press Accounts: [US Media: The Washington Post] [2 of 2], 1995
Clinton blames UN for failure and calls for an air campaign against the Bosnian Serb forces.
NATO views airstrikes as a measure to protect safe areas.
US charges the Bosnian Serbs with atrocities committed in Bosnia.
UN report: Bosnian Serbs massacred Muslims from Srebrenica.
UN forces are pulling out of Goražde: most peacekeepers also to quit the Bihać enclave.
Three UN peace negotiators die in a car wreck near Sarajevo.
Holbrooke prepares to resume peace negotiations with a reconstituted team.
377-0-1:8/2
Press Accounts: [US Media: The Washington Post], 1996
US is uncertain about opening roads to the area of reported massacres in Bosnia.
John Shattuck, Assistant secretary of State for Human Rights visited the alleged killing fields on a Bosnian Serb controlled territory.
Survivors from srebrenica claim that the Sase mine is the place where thousands of Muslims were killed.
ICTY had demanded the handover of Dražen erdemović, a former Bosnian Serb officer who claims to have taken part in mass executions of Muslims in 1995.
Is it a war crime or a just war?: the US case against a Serb general raises some unpleasant issues.
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Ruez, Jean-René: [Testimony], 1996
Transcript of the testimony of Jean-René Ruez in front of the ICTY.
377-0-1:8/4
Safe Areas [The Creation of], 1992 - 1997
Nik Gowing writes on the creation of the Srebrenica safe area.
Stanley Meisler writes on the work of the UNSC in regard of the UN mission in Bosnia.
377-0-1:8/5
Serbian Mercenaries in the World, 1997
Report on the engagement of Serbian mercenaries in Zaire.
Report on the reached Dayton Agreement and the role of IFOR in Bosnia.
377-0-1:8/6
Silk, Robert H.: [Lawsuit] [1 of 3], 1995 - 1997
Correspondence between Robert H. Silk, New York attorney and the representatives of the US Department of State.
Correspondence between Robert H. Silk, New York attorney, and the US Department of State regarding documentation presented by Madeleine Albright to the UNSC pertaining to the commission of war crimes, genocide and atrocities in Bosnia.
Various incoming telegrams for the US Department of State containing information regarding the occurrences in Srebrenica and Bosnia.
Various declarations in the “Students against genocide et all vs Department of State”.
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Silk, Robert H.: [Lawsuit] [2 of 3], 1997
Various personal declarations in the “Students against genocide et al. vs Department of State” case.
Evidence of Serb atrocities in Srebrenica.
Various documents pertaining to the “Students against genocide et al. vs Department of State” case.
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Silk, Robert H.: [Lawsuit] [3 of 3], 1995 - 1997
Various documents pertaining to the “Students against genocide et al. vs Department of State case“.
Robert H. Silk’s declarations in the “Students against genocide et al. vs Department of State” case.
Minutes from the 3564th meeting of the UNSC on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
New York Times article: US seeks to prove mass killings in Srebrenica.
Correspondence between Robert H. Silk, New York attorney and the US Department of State.
Various incoming telegrams for the US Department of State containing information regarding the occurrences in Srebrenica and Bosnia.
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Silk, Robert H.: [Lawsuit], 1996
Correspondence between Robert H. Silk, New York attorney and the US Department of State.
Various information received by the US Department of State regarding evidence of the Srebrenica atrocities.
Spy photos of mass graves in Bosnia.
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Silk, Robert H.: [Lawsuit], 1997
Correspondence between Robert H. Silk, New York attorney and the US Department of State.
Spy photos from mass graves in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Report on interviews conducted by Assistant Secretary John Shattuck on the humanitarian situation in the Western Balkans.
Various information received through US diplomatic cables regarding the situation in Bosnia.
Human rights abuses in North-Western Bosnia: report on forced expulsions from 5-12 October, 1995.
Reports by John Shattuck regarding the defense of the safe area of Srebrenica.
Various incoming telegrams for the US Department of State containing information regarding the occurrences in Srebrenica and Bosnia.
Christian Science Monitor: how the Serb massacre in Srebrenica was exposed.
Statement by Nicholas Burns: the US Government's humanitarian response to the Srebrenica and Žepa crisis is communicated.
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Smith, Leighton W. [Admiral], 1995 - 1996
Transcripts of telephone interviews with Admiral Leighton Smith.
Joint statement of Admiral Leighton Smith and General Janvier on the extension of the suspension of the NATO airstrikes.
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Smith, Rupert [General], 1995
Report on a meeting between General Rupert Smith and Radovan Karadžić from May 9th 1995.
General Rupert Smith’s personal report on his meeting with Karadžić.
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Srebrenica: Bosnia: [Afterlife], 1995 - 1999
Agreement for surrender of the 21st corps.
Talking points on Srebrenica: current state of affairs and the way forward.
Framework agreement on the municipal government in Srebrenica.
Internal OHR memo by the Special Envoy to Srebrenica, Bent Jensen.
List of members of the Srebrenica executive board.
Report by the Internal Crisis Group: “Kosovo--let’s learn from Bosnia”.
Article on the life in Srebrenica from September, 1996.
War crime panel sentences Dražen Erdemović to 10 years in prison for war crimes near Srebrenica.
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UN Economic and Social Council: [Reports on Srebrenica], 1996
Final periodic report on the situation of human rights in the territory of the former Yugoslavia submitted by Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Special Rapporteur of the Commission of Human Rights, from August, 1995.
Report on the situation of human rights in the territory of the former Yugoslavia submitted by Elisabeth Rehn, Special Rapporteur of the Commission of Human Rights, from March, 1996.
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UN General Assembly: [Report on the Fall of Srebrenica], 1999
The fall of Srebrenica: a report of the Secretary-General pursuant to the General Assembly resolution 53/35.
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UNMO [United Nations Military Observer], 1995
Postscript to Srebrenica: report on the occurrences in Srebrenica between June and July, 1995.
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UNPROFOR [United Nations Protection Force]: [Documents], 1994
Correspondence between Yasushi Akashi and Thorvald Stoltenberg on the negotiations in Pale and Sarajevo.
Correspondence between Yasushi Akashi and Kofi Annan.
Joint statement of the President of the Croat Republic of Herzeg Bosnia, Mate Boban and the President of the Autonomous Province (AP) of Western Bosnia, Fikret Abdić.
Correspondence between Fikret Abdić, President of the AP of Western Bosnia and Boutros-Ghali.
Note to Kofi Annan on the future of UNPROFOR in Bosnia.
Memorandum regarding the approach to resolving the Bihać conflagration.
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UNPROFOR [United Nations Protection Force]: [Documents], 1995
Draft report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the mandate of UNPROFOR.
“Peacemaking and peacekeeping: lessons from former Yugoslavia“ by Yasushi Akashi.
On the UNSGSP criteria for the use of close air support of United Nations.
A briefing on the situation in Srebrenica.
Haris Silajdžić comments on the new UN resolution on Srebrenica.
List of translators for the Dutchbat.
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UNPROFOR [United Nations Protection Force]: [Documents: January-April], 1995
Correspondence between Bernard Janvier and Kofi Annan.
Correspondence between Yasushi Akashi and Kofi Annan.
Letter from Hasan Muratović to the UN Secretary General.
Correspondence between Akashi and Michel Moussalli.
UN Weekly situation reports about the UN mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Report on a meeting between General Mladić and General Smith.
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UNPROFOR [United Nations Protection Force]: [Documents: May 1-16], 1995
Correspondence between Akashi and Annan.
Summary of the Secretary-General briefing to the UNSC on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Correspondence between Akashi and Michel Moussalli.
Statement by Haris Silajdžić on the Serbian attack on Sarajevo.
Draft report of the Secretary-General of the implementation of the mandate of UNPROFOR.
Weekly situation report by UNPROFOR.
Summary of Bosnian Serb news by the UNPROFOR.
Letters from Alija Izetbegović to Jean Bernard Merimee and Boutros-Ghali.
Report on a meeting between General Smith and Radovan Karadžić.
Agreement on the demilitarization of Srebrenica and Žepa between General Ratko Mladić and General Sefer Halilović in the presence of Lieutenant General Philippe Morillon.
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UNPROFOR [United Nations Protection Force]: [Documents: May 17-30], 1995
Correspondence between General Janvier and General Smith.
Minutes from a meeting between Annan, General Smith, General Janvier.
Regular UNPROFOR reports regarding the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Report on a telephone conversation between General Mladić and General Smith.
Report on a meeting between General Smith and Radovan Karadžić.
Report on the UN negotiations with Slobodan Milošević.
Secretary-General briefing to the UNSC on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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UNPROFOR [United Nations Protection Force]: [Documents: June], 1995
Translations of news from the daily Večernje Novine.
Translations of news broadcasted through the Bosnian Serb radio.
Srebrenica after the barbaric act of the Chetniks: the Blue Helmets were sleeping.
Translation of news broadcasted on the BH TV.
Correspondence between Akashi and Boutros-Ghali.
NATO proposed airstrikes on Banja Luka.
Correspondence between Radovan Karadžić and the UNSRSG for former Yugoslavia, Yasushi Akashi.
Correspondence between Kofi Annan and Yasushi Akashi.
Letter from the deputy mayor of Srebrenica, Hamdija Fejzić.
Assessment of the Dutchbat Srebrenica concerning their supplies.
Tone Bringa writes about the attitude of the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina towards UNPROFOR.
Report on the situation in Srebrenica from June 1995.
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UNPROFOR [United Nations Protection Force]: [Documents: July 1-9], 1995
The Bosnian Serb Army resumed attacks on the Srebrenica safe area.
Summaries and updates of the situation in the Srebrenica enclave sent among UN offices.
Correspondence between Muhamed Šaćirbegović and Gerardo Martinez Blanco.
Correspondence between General Delić and General Gobillard.
Reports on a telephone conversations between General Nicolai and General Tolimir.
Report on the death of the Dutchbat soldier in Srebrenica.
Krešimir Zubak claims that the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the HVO will unblock Sarajevo.
Translations of news published in Oslobođenje and Večernje Novine.
Translation of news broadcasted on the Bosnian Serb radio and BH TV.
The Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina requests a UN intervention in the enclave of Srebrenica.
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UNPROFOR [United Nations Protection Force]: [Documents: July 10-11], 1995
Correspondence between Yasushi Akashi and Kofi Annan regarding the situation in Srebrenica.
Correspondence between the UNPROFOR office from Sarajevo and the Dutchbat on the protection of refugees in Srebrenica.
Correspondence between Yasushi Akashi and the UNPF office in Belgrade on the Bosnian Serb Army attack on the safe area of Srebrenica.
English translations of news appearing in the daily Oslobođenje in Sarajevo from July 10, 1995.
Statement by Muhamed Šaćirbegović on the inefficiency of UNPROFOR.
Correspondence between Lieutenant General Bernard Janvier and Ratko Mladić.
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UNPROFOR [United Nations Protection Force]: [Documents: July 12-13], 1995
Briefing note on the forced expulsion of civil population from Srebrenica from July 13, 1995.
English translations of news appearing in the daily Oslobođenje in Sarajevo from July 13, 1995.
UNPF’s chronology of the events in Srebrenica between July 8-10, 1995.
Correspondence between the UN headquarters Sector North East and UNPROFOR Sarajevo.
Statement by Alija Izetbegović regarding the occurences in Srebrenica from July 12, 1995.
Correspondence between Yasushi Akashi and Kofi Annan.
Memorandum by the UN headquarters Sector North East regarding the evacuation of refugees from Srebrenica.
Transcript of a telephone conversation between General Nicolai and General Gvero.
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UNPROFOR [United Nations Protection Force]: [Documents: July 14-18], 1995
Correspondence between Rupert Smith and Bernard Janvier.
Report on the situation with the displaced population from Srebrenica in the Tuzla air base by UNPROFOR.
Correspondence between Yasushi Akashi and Kofi Annan.
Reports on conducted interviews with displaced persons from Srebrenica.
English translations of news broadcasted by the Bosnian Serb radio and BHTV from July 14th 1995.
Report on a visit of the UN air base near Tuzla by the Civil Affairs Officer, Wasantha Bandarage: survey among displaced persons regarding human rights violations was conducted.
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UNPROFOR [United Nations Protection Force]: [Documents: July 19-24], 1995
Report on human rights violations by Wasantha Bandarage.
Correspondence between Bernard Janiver and Kofi Annan.
Correspondence between Michel Moussalli from the UNPF headquarters in Zagreb and Ken Biser from the UNPROFOR North-East Sector from Tuzla.
Correspondence between Kofi Annan and Yasushi Akashi: report from a meeting with NATO's Secretary-General is communicated.
English translations of news from the daily Večernje Novine from July 21, 1995 and from news broadcasted on BH Radio from July 22, 1995.
Report on the battle of Srebrenica.
Personal account of the events in Srebrenica by Christina Schmidt.
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UNPROFOR [United Nations Protection Force]: [Documents: July 25-31], 1995
English translations of news broadcasted on the Bosnian Serb radio and the BH radio from July 27 -31, 1995.
Postscript to Srebrenica: secret report by the UNMO.
Report on the performance of the UNHCR staff at the Tuzla Air Base Displaced Persons Camp.
Correspondence between Kofi Annan and Yasushi Akashi.
Letter to Boutros-Ghali by Vladimir Drobnjak and Ivan Z. Mišić informing him about the signed "Declaration on the implementation of the Washington agreement, joint defense against the Serb aggression and reaching a political solution congruent with the efforts of the international community", signed by Franjo Tuđman, Alija Izetbegović, Krešimir Zubak and Haris Silajdžić.
Human Rights Report on Srebrenica by UNPROFOR from July 31, 1995.
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UNPROFOR [United Nations Protection Force]: [Documents: August], 1995
Statement by Radovan Karadžić after the meeting of the Joint Defence Council in Drvar from August, 1995.
Media summary of a session of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Assembly in Zenica.
Summary by UNPROFOR on the Bosnian media reports on the fall of Grahovo and Glamoč.
Bosnian Serb radio news summary from August, 1995.
Report of the UN Secretary-General pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1010.
Assessment of the situation in the Srebrenica enclave.
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UNPROFOR [United Nations Protection Force]: [Documents: September-November], 1995
Transcript of an interview with Alija Izebegović for the BH television.
Communication between UNPROFOR units in Bosnia and Croatia.
Chronology of the events in Srebrenica between July 8-11, 1995.
Nezir Hodžić, brother of Bekir Hodžić, an interpreter for the UN Civil Police in Srebrenica, asks from the UN Civil Police about who was responsible for not issuing an interpreter ID card to his brother which would have enabled him to travel to Zagreb.
Transcript of an interview with Ramiza Hasanović regarding the occurrences during the fall of Srebrenica.
Statement by Alija Izetbegović on the Dayton talks.
Interview with the US Ambassador to the UN, Madeleine Albright.
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UNPROFOR [United Nations Protection Force]: [Documents], 1996
Release authority for air request.
Report on the visit of Srebrenica by the UN Special Rapporteur, Kenneth M. Biser, from February 4, 1996.
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UNPROFOR [United Nations Protection Force]: [Documents: Factsheets], 1995
Fact sheets by the UNPF from 1995 regarding the UN offices across former Yugoslav countries.
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UNPROFOR [United Nations Protection Force]: [Documents: Press Briefings: July 10-12], 1995
UNPROFOR press briefings from July 10-12, 1995: the shelling and the fall of Srebrenica in the hands of the Bosnian Serb Army are reported.
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UNSC [United Nations Security Council]: [Charter, Reports, Resolutions], 1999
Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to Security Council resolution 1019 (1995) on violations of the international humanitarian law in the areas of Srebrenica, Žepa, Banja Luka and Sanski Most.
Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to Security Council resolution 1010 (1995) concerning the events in Srebrenica and Žepa.
Letter from Alija Izetbegović to Willy Claes regarding the shelling of Sarajevo.
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US Department of State: [Regular Briefings: July 5-10], 1995
Transcripts from the regular briefings by Nicholas Burns from the US State Department from July 5-10th 1995: the role of UNPROFOR in Bosnia and the possibility for use of rapid reaction force are being discussed as well as the shelling of Srebrenica and Žepa.
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US Department of State [Regular Briefings: July 12-17], 1995
Transcripts from the regular briefings by Nicholas Burns from the US State Department from July 12-17th 1995: condemnation of the Bosnian Serb Army attack of Srebrenica is expressed as well as evaluation of the work of the United Nations and their failure in protecting the Srebrenica enclave.
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US Department of State: [Diplomatic Cables], 1994 - 1996
Reports on the fall of Srebrenica and the creation of a humanitarian crisis.
Reports on the detainees from Srebrenica and Žepa.
Reports on human rights abuses in Srebrenica.
Reports on UNHCR's efforts to identify and locate missing persons from Srebrenica and Žepa.
On the accountability in wake of the recent ethnic cleansing by Bosnian Serbs.
Report of interviews with Assistant Secretary John Shattuck on the humanitarian situation in Western-Bosnia.
Reports on the approval of the peace plan by the Bosniak Assembly.
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US Government: [Documents, Interviews, Policies], 1995 - 1997
Sections from the book “Endgame: the betrayal and fall of Srebrenica, Europe’s worst massacre since World War II” by David Rohde.
Transcripts from a program at the ABC News Nightline regarding the discovery of mass graves in Bosnia from January 25, 1996.
Interview with the US Ambassador to the UN, Madeleine Albright.
Report by John Shattuck on his mission in Bosnia.
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US Government: [Press Briefings], 1995
United Nations Highlights: Srebrenica falls in the hands of the Bosnian Serbs.
Clinton expresses his concerns about the people trapped in the Srebrenica enclave in light of the Serb advance to the safe area.
White House regular briefings by Michael McCurry: condemnation for the Bosnian Serbs’ offensive against Srebrenica is expressed and the further role of NATO and the US in Bosnia is discussed.
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Živanović, Milenko, 1996
David Rohde’s letter to Milenko Živanović.