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2002/04
April 2002
British Broadcasting Corporation

The Srebrenica massacre report

The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide, was the July 1995 genocidal killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War.

It was mainly perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska under Ratko Mladić, though the Serb paramilitary unit Scorpions also participated. The massacre was the first legally recognised genocide in Europe since the end of World War II.

Before the massacre, the United Nations (UN) had declared the besieged enclave of Srebrenica a “safe area” under its protection. A UN Protection Force contingent of 370 lightly armed Dutch soldiers failed to deter the town’s capture and subsequent massacre. A list of people missing or killed during the massacre contains 8,372 names.

After 5 years of research the Royal Dutch Institute for War Documentation present their report on the Srebrenica disaster with the title Srebrenica, a ‘safe’ area Reconstruction, background, consequences and analysis of the fall of a ‘Safe Area’.

BBC news is reporting on the presentation of the Srebrenica massacre report and needs interviews with a former Dutchbat soldier and with Dutch member of parliament Bert Bakker and the chairman of the commission of inquiry into Srebrenica at short notice.

For this reportage Featurez gave advice, did the research, set-up and planning of the filming, booked a camera crew and did the direction and interviews.

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