(10 Apr 2002)
AUDIO AS INCOMING
The Hague, 10 April 2002
1. Parliament Building in The Hague
2. Various of report being handed out
3. SOUNDBITE (English) David Barnouw, Public Relations for Netherlands Institute for War Documentation:
"Now we have a big impressive report about events, and what will happen with the people who did it, that's part of parliament, but now they have a good study to work on."
4. Cutaway of report being handed out
5. Set-up press conference
6. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Hans Blom, Institute Director, Netherlands Institute for War Documentation:
"Could this massacre have been prevented? And what was the role of the Dutch? When we look for an answer to this question we first need to establish that: in these days, neither at the United Nations, nor at the Bosnian government, nor in parts of the media, was a massacre imminent. The image that has been created, that thousands of men were killed under the eyes of the Dutch, is not true."
7. Exterior of Netherlands Institute of War Documentation
8. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Hajra Djakic, relative of missing Srebrenica man:
"We are very disappointed with this report, and we were particularly hurt and touched when we saw this report. We thought that this report was going to have all the names of all the people who were involved in the time of Srebrenica. I thought that all these people would be called by name and they would answer to justice in front of this tribunal."
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Srebrenica, Bosnia, 11July 1995
9. Pan from Bosnian Serb soldier to refugees
10. Two female United Nations soldiers
11. Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic, commander of Bosnian Serb army, talking to refugees with UN soldiers looking on
12. Thousands of refugees on road listening to Mladic
STORYLINE:
A Netherlands government commissioned report released on Wednesday on the 1995 fall of Srebrenica has blamed Dutch army officers for handing over Bosnian Muslim civilians to Serb forces, despite fears of widespread killing.
During one week in July 1995, about 7,500 Bosnian Muslims died in execution-style slayings after Serb forces overran the Srebrenica enclave, where the United Nations had pledged its protection to any Muslim who sought sanctuary there.
The report found that Dutch soldiers were inadequate in number and armament, and had no clear instructions on how to carry out the pledge of safety to Muslim refugees.
However, the report also put the primary responsibility for the massacres on Bosnian General Ratko Mladic, who ordered and supervised the evacuation of Muslim men from the enclave, and later oversaw the murder of thousands.
At Mladic's insistence, the thousands of Muslims who took refuge with the Dutch battalion were separated by gender.
The men were taken away to camps where they were killed, and the women and children were deported.
The report, by nine researchers working since 1996, was intended as an authoritative review of the events leading up to the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, and the prominent role of the Dutch political and military leadership.
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