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Final Analysis of the Srebrenica and Zepa Airlift

(Document/Translation Courtesy: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia) “The demilitarized zone of Srebrenica was established on 19 April 1993. Although the zone was declared a safe and demilitarized area, Chetniks [Serbs] were constantly endangering this area by sabotage … Continue reading

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Zepa Massacre: More Than 200 Bosniak Civilians Murdered by Serbs

Zepa Massacre: More Than 200 Die in Serb Attack By Robert H. Reid The Item, p.2A 7 May 1993. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A Serb assault on one of the last Bosniak outposts in eastern Bosnia has left more than … Continue reading

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Intercepted Order to Kill 40,000 Bosniaks in the Enclave of Zepa

Serbs Torch Refugee Enclave The Bulletin, front page. 4 May 1993. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — An eastern Bosnian town was reported ablaze today from a heavy Serbian artillery attack, two days after Bosnia’s Serb leader signed a U.N.-backed peace plan. … Continue reading

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Serbs Overrun US Food-Drops Intended for Bosniaks in Besieged Eastern Enclaves

First U.S. aid lost to villagers; 2nd load sent By David Crary Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, p.A3 2 March 1993. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — As three U.S. Air Force planes dropped their second load of relief over eastern Bosnia early today, questions … Continue reading

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Bosniaks Dying of Hunger and Cold in Besieged Enclave of Zepa

Bosnian Says Many Dying of Cold, Hunger Bangor Daily News, p.13 11 January 1993. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A government official called Sunday for urgent U.N. aid to a besieged town in eastern Bosnia where he said people were dying … Continue reading

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Serb Siege Kills 60 Bosniak Children in Zepa and Srebrenica

85 People Die of Cold and Starvation in Bosnia Times-Union, p.8A 14 January 1993. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Hoping to stem a reported wave of deaths from cold and hunger, U.N. officials today sent a convoy to Zepa, an east … Continue reading

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Serb Chief Threatens to Down US Planes

Daily News, p.5A 19 July 1995. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — With the West considering using air power to defend two embattled Bosniak “safe areas,” the Bosnian Serb leader warned today that any foreign planes that try to aid the government-held … Continue reading

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US Bill to Lift Bosnia’s Arms Embargo Represents Cry of Outrage

Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic told U.N. officials this week that he had the Bosnian army commander at Zepa, Avdo Palic, executed after the Serbs overran the supposed “safe area.” The Nazis did not do that to captured Soviet generals in World … Continue reading

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Serbs Committed to Continue Genocide in Bosnia

U.N. Security Council Moves with Caution The Free Lance-Star, p.A4 6 May 1993. By Sheila Norman-Culp UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. diplomats contemplated military action against the Serbs, but the only concrete step they could agree on was a toothless … Continue reading

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Eastern Bosnia Massacre: 200 Bosnian Muslim Civilians Slaughtered in Zepa

Civilians Die Amid Exodus The Rochester Sentinel, front page 7 May 1993. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A Serb assault on one of the last Bosniak outposts in eastern Bosnia has left more than 200 civilians dead and forces a mass … Continue reading

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Some May Freeze to Death in Besieged Bosnian Enclaves of Srebrenica, Zepa, Gorazde

First War, Now Winter for Bosnia By Maud S. Belman Times Daily, p.8A 31 October 1993. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — An estimated 125,000 Bosniaks — wearing shoes made from parachutes, living in bombed-out hovels or drinking from puddles — face some … Continue reading

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Bosnian Army Kills Musan Topalovic “Caco”, Serbs Block Convoy of Sick and Injured Bosniak Civilians

New Straits Times, p.24. 29 October 1993. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — The Bosnian Government said today 18 people were killed and 537 detained in a bloody crackdown by security forces on rampaging army “mafia” gangs in the capital. One of the … Continue reading

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Serbs Plan to Fake U.S. Arms Airdrop to Bosniaks

Bosnian Serbs Accused of Plot: U.S. officer says plans are afoot to fake evidence of arms airdrop By John Pomfret The Washington Post Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, p.A10 10 February 1994. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — A senior U.S. military officer charged yesterday that … Continue reading

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U.S. Airdrop to Bosnian Muslims May Have Missed Targets

The Mount Airy News, p.13 1 March 1993. By Terrence Petty AP Writer FRANKFURT, Germany — Air Force officials said today that the first U.S. airdrop of food and medicine into Bosnia went well, but initial reports from the ground … Continue reading

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Srebrenica, Zepa: 60 Children, 42 Adults Die from Starvation and Cold

“As for the Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, ‘he will lie, keep lying as he has done all the time, and he will kill more of us in the coming days” – Nedjara Beganovic. Serb blockade claims lives of more … Continue reading

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