The Death of Yugoslavia (5/6): A Safe Area - BBC documentary (1995)

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/cats/yugoslavia/xd20-0.htm
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The Death of Yugoslavia is a BBC documentary series first broadcast in 1995, and is also the name of a book written by Allan Little and Laura Silber that accompanies the series. It covers the collapse of the former Yugoslavia. It is notable in its combination of never-before-seen archive footage interspersed with interviews of most of the main players in the conflict, including Slobodan Milošević, Radovan Karadžić, Franjo Tuđman and Alija Izetbegović. This format, pioneered by the programme's production company, Brian Lapping Associates, was very influential and the company produced many others in similar style.
The six parts were entitled:
1. "Enter Nationalism"
2. "The Road to War"
3. "Wars of Independence"
4. "The Gates of Hell"
5. "A Safe Area"
6. "Pax Americana"
The series was awarded with a BAFTA award in 1996 for Best Factual Series. Because of the series large amount of interviews with prominent leaders and commanders of the conflict, it has been frequently used by ICTY in war crimes prosecutions.
All the papers relating to the documentary series, including full transcripts of the many valuable interviews conducted with participants, are lodged at the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College, University of London.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/cats/yugoslavia/xd20-0.htm
During the trial of Milošević before the ICTY, Judge Bonomy called the nature of much of the commentary "tendentious". This was because there were instances in which an interview in the Serbian language was subtitled incorrectly and often in a misleading manner (for example, the subtitling translated an interviewee saying that "Milosevic always won the elections on a nationalistic platform and nothing else", rather than "... on a national platform... ")

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[xzqzq]

@TheJasdil It was the death of Tito which started the ball rolling downhill. When you have a multi-ethnic state, usually only a strong dictatorship keep the various factions in line, and prevents this sort of blood-letting...

[AidaVienne]

JEBEM VAM MATER CETNICI!

[ibitron1]

@BlackCountryPuddler very sad :-(

[BlackCountryPuddler]

General Mike Rose. Commanding officer of the 22nd SAS. Brilliant Soldier

[BlackCountryPuddler]

Has it no been established that the mortaring of the Market Place in Sarajevo was done by Muslims themselves, and not the Serbs.....to engender world sympathy. Did not French television uncover this in the last few years.

[BlackCountryPuddler]

That beautiful old bridge they blew it up like it was nothing.....

[Timurv1234]

James Baker said in May 1992 that USA is not and cannot be World Police... But what are they doing now ??? They are "saving" people from dictatorship, they are "bringing""democracy" to the Arab world... It sounds pretty policeish to me... Damned Americans....

[wetenjan]

fuck serbia ,



[ekLuca]

The leaders should be fighting the war with the soldiers on the front lines!!!! Not Drinking aperitifs and eating salads... WTF? the war would be over in a minute.

[BliebandRHYNO]

@confusedmiked You seem to have no clue about what you are talking about, I guess your channel name says it all.