(12 Oct 2004)

The Hague, Netherlands - October 12, 2004
1. Beara standing up
2. Judge
3. Wide shot court room
4. SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat) Ljubisa Beara, former Bosnian Serb colonel:
"All of those who will see this or hear this or whatever, my comrades-in-arms, who are now accused and who are fugitives, I wish to send a message to them, that they voluntarily surrender as soon as possible to remove the stone from around the neck of our nation, off our country - that is what I wish to say to all, thank you."

Srebrenica, Bosnia Herzegovina - 10 October 2004
5. Wide shot of Srebrenica town
6. Wide shot of Muslim victims' graveyard in Srebrenica
7. Various shots of graves

Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina - 12 October 2004
8. Mid shot of relatives of victims sitting at table
9. SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat) Munira Subasic, relative of victim:
''Beara was the third man, after Karadzic and Mladic. He has sent ten thousand of our men and boys to their deaths.''
10. Mid shot two women sitting
11. SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat) Sabaheta Fejzic, lost child in the Srebrenica massacre:
''If you ask me, as a victim and a mother of a lost child, he is the one who should get life imprisonment because he is responsible for the mass murder of people who were barefoot, naked and hungry after the fall of Srebrenica.''

Pale, Republika Srpska - October 12, 2004
12. Wide shot of Pale
13. Road sign for Pale
14. SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat) Vox pop, Resident:
''I think he did not do it. I'm sure he didn't.''
14. SOUNDBITE (Serbo-Croat) Vox pop, Resident:
''Only Serbs are being arrested and taken to the Hague. If he committed any crimes, why is he not put on trial here? Why do Serbs have to end up in the Hague?''

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Zaklopaca, Bosnia Herzegovina - July 2004
15. Wide of mass grave
16. Close up human skull
17. Mid shot experts working at gravesite

STORYLINE:

A senior Bosnian Serb army officer, ending two years on the run and appearing before a UN war crimes judge in The Hague, appealed to other fugitives on Tuesday to surrender and "remove the stone from around the neck" of his country.

Ljubisa Beara, who was taken into custody on Saturday in Serbia, declined to enter pleas to six counts of genocide and other war crimes, asking the court for more time.

Another hearing was set for November 9.

65-year-old Beara was the wartime security chief for the Bosnian Serb army under General Ratko Mladic during the 1995 siege of Srebrenica, when more than seven-thousand Bosnian Muslim males were killed and tens of thousands of women and children were forcibly transferred.

It was one of the worst mass murder on European soil since World War II.

Relatives of the Srebrenica victims had strong words for Beara following his appearance on Tuesday.

They accused him of being third in line after wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and General Mladic, who are accused of being responsible for the genocide.

One woman who lost a child in Srebrenica called for life imprisonment for Beara.

However in the Bosnian Serb town of Pale, residents were sceptical of the charges.

One woman complained that it was only Serbs who were being put on trial.

The indictment alleges that during the attack on the Srebrenica enclave by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995, and the subsequent killings and executions of Bosnian Muslim men and boys, Ljubisa Beara was a Colonel and Chief of Security of the Main Staff of the Bosnian Serb Army or("VRS").

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