Beginning of War in Yugoslavia - Pocetak Rata u Jugoslaviji

Yellow Wasps
Anatomy of a War Crime A Film by Ilan Ziv

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 70 minutes / color
Release Date: 1996
Copyright Date: 1995
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[HistoryChannell]

His most recent film before The Junction was Human Weapon, a film on the history of suicide bombing, which ran at Film Forum in 2002 and which was called, "A gripping and important documentary." His other critically-acclaimed films have included On the Edge of Peace (1995); Tango of Slaves (1994). His films have been broadast by leading television networks and presented in film festivals around the world. Accolades include the Prix Europa (Europe highest television award.

[HistoryChannell]

Director of this film is Ilan Ziv who was born in Israel in 1950 and came to the US. Ilan Ziv is a graduate of New York University film school. 1978 he founded Icarus Films, an educational film distribution company, which he left in 1980 in order devote himself to making documentary films, and since then he has directed dozens of documentaries dealing broadly with issues of human rights, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and investigations of contemporary history.

[teemuruskeepaa]

We need to remember that nationalism was and still is imposed on the population by the elite, by the mass media and state apparatus , and for their own right to rule

[gigobait]

This isnt propoganda, this is reality, this is war and nationalism. Im russian we had the same thing in chechnya, and they said the same things about us. cuz they too happended.

[slartybardfast11]

milosovic now rotts in hell ...justice !

[K181800]

Serbs never had a chance against equal enemy.They are"brave"only if they are sure that they are at least 3 times stronger than the other side.So was in last war as well.They had third strongest European army on their side,so called"JNA",but at the end they were defeated.Although they entered in Vukovar,they had such losses,that they actually felt like losers,but

they killed all wounded in hospital and civilians.

When Croats bought some weapons,later,Serbian"brave"ar­my escaped or was defeated.

[Attisss]

Your damn right Osmanovic, we Turks allways support you guys;) Long live the Brotherhood of the old Ottomans

[power2preamp]

I thought it was mainly about land-and resentment from the period when the turks took over during the turkification of the balkan. The turks demanded institutional allegiance, and The Orthodox Church was not the Turks favored institution . And the Serbs-Orthodox did not budge on their faith or their institutional beliefs or there resolve. - and lost favor(property rights-economic opportunities, etc) during the ~500 years that the turks ran the balkan.

[TheIronMan987]

It seems to me that the serbian people were soley responsible for ethnic cleansing. This is big shame on serbia.

[Arkanovac23]

yes and they will never come back, hvala bogu

[crazyserb1]

samo srbi-only serbs

[muha212]

wich religion would we choose?