The Death of Yugoslavia (6/6): Pax Americana - 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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[cissaman]

Thanks for posting this series. I loved it.

[CroPETROforever]

13:03 THAT'S RIGHT SERBS, your politics from 91-95 was ETHNIC CLEANSING of croats in croatia and muslims in Bosnia, AND IN 1995 YOU PAYED THE PRICE.

[spacedancer]

May the international war lords burn in hell too for ever and ever.

[spacedancer]

May all the Balkan war lords and criminals burn in hell for eternity!

Serbs, Bosnians, Croats stop hating ffs

[macemanDK90]

they slould have nuke'd them serbs ww2 style, but with greater warheads to make sure no serbian flag would ever be raised again in the name of self righteousness, evil nationalism, and inhumanity...

[herolosh]

To pokaze kakve su to picke bili bez amerikanaca i tacno kako ustase i balije bi cjeli srpsku naciju pobili da im su im amerkanci dali

[herolosh]

@CroPETROforever e brate da nije bilo amerikanaca ne bi ni bilo hrvatske onake kave postoji danas. samo se vi falite da oni su tu bili da vas pomognu

[ibitron1]

@CroPETROforever women and children paid the price.

[NEMESIS9415]

My God!!!....My God...how did they managed to put us so far in to sleep here in Greece, all these years, to believe that these guys (the Serbs) were the victims and the heroes in this?!!!Guys....I'm an avid (military) historian, reenactor, and collector (indeed, as I write these, I ironically wear a Serb "jigsaw" camo pants!!!).....TRUST ME...BASED TO MY EXPERIENCES AS WELL AS MY INTUITION, I STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT THINGS HAPPENED EXACTLY THE WAY, THIS EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENTARY SHOWED US!!! 

[NEMESIS9415]

....THIS DOCUMENTARY IS NOT FABRICATED NOR A LIE. SOMETHING DEEP INSIDE ME TELLS ME, IT'S THE REAL THING!!!....and it's the first time that I feel ashamed for backing up these guys!!! Trust me...it is very hard for me to say so...it almost makes me feel like a traitor, but on the other hand I believe that well in my 40s I am already way too mature not to accept the truth!!! To say or behave otherwise would be an insult both to me, as well as to humanity!!! It is only a pity, that the people...