The Death of Yugoslavia (3/6): Wars Of Independence - BBC documentary (1995)

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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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[BlackCountryPuddler]

"We decided not to fight house to house. We decided to use heavy armour"....All those beautiful old world, historic stone buildings. What craftsmen these people must be. All that culture destroyed for the population by a gangs of nationalist loony Serbs. Unbelievable. No wonder the First World War began here.

[CroPETROforever]

a vidi SESELJA starog retardirang jadnika XD meni je njega žao jadnog kako je retardiran

[SDejan93]

watch film ....The Weight of Chains...

[WaKeVajZet]

@miles2057 Bosnia & Kosovo?Tanks?NATO?What are you talking about..Bunch of Serbs decided that they don't want Albanian bordermen at northern parts of Kosovo & Metohija (not Bosnia,its a different country),so they started building baricades on main roads,so KFOR (not NATO) couldn't not get pass and set up they're bordermen.Compared to the video you are watching,its nothing. :)

[shimenga1]

wow! talk about rascism

[miles2057]

@Paddyllfixit Cheers mate, thanks for your comment.

My parents are from the Former Jugoslavija and so I like to keep in touch with what's going on in the region and on the weekend I heard that there are tensions at the Bosnia and Kosovo border with things heating up there.

I saw some shooting & tanks there. I'm not 100% sure what's going on but I can guess and I hope that this does not escalate into anything serious.

I know NATO is there at the moment.

Something to keep an eye on in the future.

[Paddyllfixit]

@29.44, murdering innocent defenseless old people? That's not being a righteous warrior it's a war criminal. And the brutal way they were murdered looks as if they were revenge killings. Revenge for the atrocities committed by the "serb-cutters" at Jasenovac. Very wrong, no matter what ethnicity is the perpetrator or victim. Dangerous hatred.