(31 May 2011) SHOTLIST
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FILE Srebrenica, Bosnia - 12 July 1995
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1. Mid of Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic arriving
2. Pan from Mladic talking to Muslim refugees, patting boy Izudin Alic on the head (++Mladic assured them at this precise moment that they would be safe and that nothing would happen to them++)
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Srebrenica, Bosnia - 31 May 2011
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3. Wide of Izudin Alic showing a recording of his encounter with Mladic on a computer, pointing at himself
4. Izudin and his mother Fatima watching TV
5. Izudin's hands sorting photo album
6. Close up of Izudin's face
7. Various of Izudin and his mother sorting through photos
8. Cutaway of photo of Izudin and his family dating back to the immediate post-war period. Izudin Alic is the tallest child on the photo with a toy in his hands
9. SOUNDBITE: (Bosnian) Izudin Alic, boy patted on head by Mladic in Srebrenica video: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
"I remember that I got a chocolate bar. I went there together with other children and I took that chocolate bar from Ratko Mladic."
10. Fatima Alic placing food plate on the table, in front of Izudin
11. Izudin watching TV
12. SOUNDBITE: (Bosnian) Fatima Alic, mother of Izudin Alic: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
"We stood there on the pavement (in Potocari). They came and he started giving something to children. I remember that he was handing out bread. My father-in-law went there and wrestled with another man over a piece of bread in order to bring it to the children. He grabbed it so that children would have something to eat. After that he was handing out chocolate to children. I do not know much, I was taking care of children, to make sure they are all with me because there were many of us, I was worried a child might get lost."
13. Izudin walking through gates of former battery factory, now a memorial museum to victims in Potocari
14. SOUNDBITE: (Bosnian) Izudin Alic, boy patted on head by Mladic in Srebrenica video: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
"This is the place where I was with other children when Ratko Mladic came. This is where he gave us chocolate. He asked me for my name and I told him my name is Izudin."
15. Izudin seen from the side pointing to a field where he was given a chocolate bar by Mladic
16. Izudin visiting memorial cemetery to massacre victims in Potocari, passes stone plate reading (English) "Srebrenica, July 1995"
17. Izudin walking between graves
18. Various of Izudin praying at his father's grave
19. Mid of Izudin walking
20. Izudin walking next to a monument to massacre victims at the cemetery
STORYLINE
The footage horrified the world: a grinning Ratko Mladic patting a young Muslim boy on the head and assuring him and other children they would be safe - just hours before allegedly overseeing the murder of 8,000 men in nearby Srebrenica.
The boy in the video is now a 24-year-old man.
And he recalls with crystal clarity the sunny day he met the former Bosnian-Serb military commander who gave him chocolate, and who now faces trial at a UN tribunal in The Hague on genocide charges.
"I remember that I got a chocolate bar," Izudin recalls, pointing at himself in a video of the scene.
"I went there together with other children and I took that chocolate bar from Ratko Mladic," he told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview.
As he and his mother flipped through a photo album with pictures of them a happy family in the garden in front of their house, Fatima Alic also recalled that chilling day in 1995.
In the infamous footage, Izudin, eight at the time, lied about his age, telling Mladic he was 12.
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