Interviewer: Daniel Toljaga
Institute for the Research of Genocide, Canada
The interview first appeared as a guest post on the official blog of Dr. Marko Attila Hoare, a world renowned British historian of the Former Yugoslavia, on Feb 12 2010.
Srebrenica region, three years before the Genocide
From April to June 1992, Serb forces plundered and torched hundreds of Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) villages and hamlets in the municipality (district) of Srebrenica and the neighboring municipalities of Bratunac, Vlasenica, Rogatica, and Visegrad. According to the UN war crimes tribunal’s judgment in the Naser Oric case, “Srebrenica town and the villages in the area held by Bosnian Muslims were constantly subjected to Serb military assaults, including artillery attacks, sniper fire, as well as occasional bombing from aircrafts. Each onslaught followed a similar pattern. Serb soldiers and paramilitaries surrounded a Bosnian Muslim village or hamlet, called upon the population to surrender their weapons, and then began with indiscriminate shelling and shooting. In most cases, they then entered the village or hamlet, expelled or killed the population, who offered no significant resistance, and destroyed their homes.” One of these villages was Zaklopača, a small place formerly in the Vlasenica municipality near the border with Srebrenica. On 16 May 1992, Serb forces approached the village and demanded Bosniak residents to hand over their weapons. Except few hunting rifles, Bosniak residents did not have any combat weapons to defend themselves. When the Serbs learned that the residents were effectively unarmed, they blocked all exists of the village and massacred at least 63 Bosniak men, women and children.
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U samo nekoliko kobnih dana Jula 1995, Srebrenički Genocid je rezultirao u masovnim ubijanjima najmanje 8,372 Bošnjaka i etničkom čišćenju 25,000 - 30,000 Bošnjaka iz zašticene zone Ujedinjenih Nacija koja je bila izložena čestim napadima dobro naoružane vojske RS-a potpomognute sa vojskom Srbije i Crne Gore. Važno je napomenuti da se Vojska RS-a na okolnim brdima i u selima oko Srebrenice nikad nije demilitarizovala iako je to od njih zathjevano ugovorom o demilitarizaciji, a napadi na Srebrenicu su trajali od 1991 do 1995 godine.
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