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Srebrenica Genocide Parts 1 to 11
Srebrenica, Bosnia, the world's first United Nations Safe Area, was the site of the worst case of genocide in Europe since World War II. In July 1995, the Serb army staged a brutal takeover of the small, intimate spa town and its surrounding region. Over a period of five days, the Serb soldiers separated Muslim families and systematically murdered over 8,000 men and boys in fields, schools, and warehouses, while 25,000 Srebrenica women were forcibly transferred to the Government-controlled territory. Some buses never reached safety.
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Yellow Wasps: Anatomy of a War Crime Parts 1 to 7
This program chronicles the Yellow Wasps, a Serbian paramilitary unit operating in Bosnia in 1992. They called themselves volunteer patriots defending their people against its many enemies. But to their victims they are criminals, sent to pillage and murder as part of a long-standing plan of naked Serbian aggression. Now refugees, these people "cleansed" from their homes recount chilling tales of torture and massacre by the Yellow Wasps.
Filmed over two years, YELLOW WASPS documents a spurious war crimes trial held in Serbia itself. The trial of the Yellow Wasps provides a unique window into the roots of "ethnic cleansing." The film also examines in detail what high officials, from Serbian President Slobodan Milosovic to American Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger to United Nations special envoys, knew about the atrocities - and what they did with that knowledge.
The trial has since been concluded with the leaders of the Yellow Wasps receiving light sentences, but the questions remain: Can the victims of ethnic cleansing expect to find justice in a post-Cold War world, where morality and "realpolitik" often collide? And what did the world powers mean after the Holocaust when they vowed "Never Again?"
"A monument to the capacity for evil that we humans seem all too willing, even eager, to demonstrate."—New York Daily News
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Dispatches report: Greater Croatia Parts 1 to 4
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A report on how the hard-line Croatian government helped mastermind the break-up of Bosnia-Herzegovina in order to create a new Croatian mini-state and how the international community let it get away with it. Those taking part include: Pero Markovic (Mayor of Caplijina), Sklaven Letica & Dusan Bilandzic (advisers to president Tudjman, 1990-1991), Gojko Susak (Croatian Defence Minister), Stjepan Klujic (leader, Bosnian Croats 1991-1992), Lord Owen, Mate Boban (President, Herceg Bosna), Ivan Negovetic (Commander, Bosnian Army), Jadranko Prlic (Prime Minister, Herceg Bosna), Jasna Dulic (Mostar muslim), Suleiman Dudakovic (Master Commander, Bosnian Army), Ivan Tomislav (Sarajevo croat) and Vinko Pulic (Archbishop od Sarajevo).
Director: GILES, Belinda
Production Company: Soul Purpose Productions
Producer: GILES, Belinda
Narrator: DAVIES, Deborah
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Two Hours from London Parts 1 to 5
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Two Hours from London is a brilliant, passionate polemic about the war in the former Yugoslavia. The final film by Jill Craigie, it outlines the role played by Serbian nationalism in Yugoslavia's break-up, and how the opportunism of Serbia's president Slobodan Milosevic led to the worst genocide in Europe since the end of the Second World War.
When Two Hours from London was made in the mid-1990s, the prevalent view in the west, and certainly among the media and political class in the UK, was that the wars in the former Yugoslavia were the result of ancient ethnic hatreds. What the film shows is that the predominant cause of the conflict was the drive for 'Greater Serbia'. Far from being a civil war, the war in the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina was an invasion by Serbia, which wanted to carve up large parts of Bosnia's territory for itself.
If Two Hours from London has a fault, it is that it is too lenient on Croatia and its then president Franjo Tudjman. Tudjman's own drive for 'Greater Croatia' was also the cause of great bloodshed, including the Muslim-Croat war of 1993-1994.
Its views may have been controversial at the time of its release, but they are now widely accepted - not least by the United Nations, which now views the Bosnian war as an international rather than a civil conflict.
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Siege of Mostar Parts 1 to 4
Mostar was surrounded by the Croat forces for nine months, and much of its historic city was severely damaged in shelling by Croat forces including the destruction of the famous Stari Most bridge. Mostar was divided into a Western part, which was dominated by the Croat forces and an Eastern part where the Army of Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina was largely concentrated. However, the Bosnian Army had its headquarters in West Mostar in the basement of a building complex referred to as Vranica. In the early hours of May 9, 1993, the Croatian Defence Council attacked Mostar using artillery, mortars, heavy weapons and small arms. The HVO controlled all roads leading into Mostar and international organisations were denied access. Radio Mostar announced that all Bosniaks should hang out a white flag from their windows. The HVO attack had been well prepared and planned. The Croats took over the west side of the city and expelled thousands Bosniaks from the west side into the east side of the city. The HVO shelling reduced much of the east side of Mostar to rubble. The JNA (Yugoslav Army) demolished Carinski Bridge, Titov Bridge and Lucki Bridge over the river excluding the Stari Most. HVO forces (and its smaller divisions) engaged in a mass execution, ethnic cleansing and rape on the Bosniak people of the West Mostar and its surrounds and a fierce siege and shelling campaign on the Bosnian Government run East Mostar. HVO campaign resulted in thousands of injured and killed. Find out more at http://www.bosniafacts.info/
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