Dispatches: Srebrenica: A Bosnian Betrayal [1/2] and [2/2]

Call Number
350-1-1:410/1

General information

Call No.:
350-1-1:410/1
Part of series
HU OSA 350-1-1 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Europe: Balkan Archive
Located at
BetaSP NTSC #410 / No. 1
Digital ver. identifier
HU_OSA_00000410
Date of air
1996-05-29
Date
1996
Level
Item
Primary Type
Moving image
Language
English
Duration
41 min.
Notes
Parts 1-2, sponsored by Soros program "How to be citizens", arrogant, provocative, quality pop music

Content

Form/Genre
Documentary film
Contents Summary
This is an in-depth investigation of the events leading up to the Srebrenica massacre. This Dispatches investigates "the massacre that should never have been, how the United Nations' high command failed the very people it had pledged to protect, and why the United Nations allowed one of its safe areas to be overrun." Dispatches presents the exclusive inside story of the fall of Srebrenica, the access to confidential UN documents, and the secret minutes of the key meetings. Dispatches asks: with two Bosnian Serb leaders indicted for war crimes, is it only they who should take the blame for Srebrenica's dreadful end? Also discussed is Serbia's arming of the Bosnian Serb army, particularly the involvement of Momčilo Krajišnik's brother. Interviews with Srebrenica survivors Sidik Ademovic and Askim Haskic, as well as with Bosnian Army personnel, Major Šemsudin Muminovic, Midhat Salihovic, and Ramiz Becirevic, included. Interviews with Yasushi Akashi, former UN special envoy; General Phillipe Morillon, former UN commander in Bosnia; Momcilo Krajisnik, Speaker of the Bosnian Serb Parliament (Krajisnik discusses Serbia's illegal arms supplies to Bosnia); Hasan Muratovic, Bosnian Prime Minister; Madeleine Albright; General Cees Nicolai, General Smith's Chief of Staff; Fred Echcart, UN Spokesperson; Srebrenica Lt. Col. Harmen De Jonge, UN Military Aide to General Janvier; Osman Suljic, leader of Srebrenica town council; Captain Jelte Groen, Dutch Battalion - Srebrenica; and Jose-Maria Mendiluce, former special envoy for UNHCR, featured. UN Military Observer Report of 13th, 14th, and 16th July 1995 and other confidential UN documents shown and cited. Footage of the war crimes investigators examining mass graves, UN soldiers taken hostage by the Bosnian Serbs, Zoran Petrovic-Pirocanac footage taken after the fall of Srebrenica, among other, included.

Context

Associated Names
Channel 4 (Copyright holder, Producer)