CROATIA: BOSNIAN MUSLIM REFUGEES LATEST SITUATION
English/Nat
Up to 25-thousand Bosnian Muslims, stranded on a road south-east of the Croatian capital, might be forcibly repatriated home.
The refugees, who are loyal to renegade Muslim leader Fikret Abdic, fled the Bihac area in north-west Bosnia after Abdic's forces were defeated by the Bosnian government army.
Desperate to avoid Bosnian muslim troops, thousands of these rebel Muslims are trapped at Vojnic, south of Zagreb on the road to north-eastern Bosnia.
They prefer to stay in Croatia in this basic camp rather than return to their homes in the region around Bihac.
These 25-thousand men and women say they're scared the Bosnian government troops will forcibly draft them into their army.
Nevertheless, the Croatian government may forcibly repatriate them.
Officials say they have made a deal with Abdic, currently under house arrest in Zagreb, allowing the refugees to return home on the proviso the men are not drafted.
The United Nations however fears for the rebel Muslims and is trying to persuade the government not to repatriate them by force.
SOUNDBITE:
We're getting reports from the interviews that we're doing with the refugees, our human rights team has been there. They have talked of physical intimidation and in some cases sexual harassment by the 5th Corps and others.
SUPER CAPTION: Chris Gunness, UN Spokesman
Croats deny the charges, and guarantee their safety.
SOUNDBITE:
We won't force but try to create possibilities...that in Kladusha also with Bosnian government and other organisations that the situation in Velika Kladusha will be safe for all returnees.
SUPER CAPTION: Josip Esterajher, Croatian Office for Displaced Persons and Refugees
About 200-thousand Bosnian refugees remain in Croatia, and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expects thousands more from northern Bosnia to arrive in Croatia.
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Bosnia - Islamic influence increases
T/I 11:20:05
As the parties continue to their campaigns in Bosnia ahead of Saturday's (14/9) crucial elections, there are signs that the influence of Islam in Bosnia has been increasing since the ceasefire.
The ruling SDA party has used its Moslem identity to strengthen its campaign has been arguing that the best way to achieve a unified Bosnia is to maintain a very strong Moslem party which can counter the threat of Croatian and Serbian nationalists who want to partition the country. Moslem clerics have attended the party's rallies, appealing for a Moslem brotherhood.
SHOWS:
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA, 11 SEPTEMBER, 1996 + RECENT/FILE
11 SEPTEMBER, 1996
WS SDA rally;
MS People waving green and white SDA flags;
Cars and taxis decorated in green and white SDA emblems;
WS Sarajevo skyline with minaret;
TUZLA 10/9
WS Minaret;
WS Moslems gathered in forecourt of Mosque;
Reis Mustafa Ceric, head of Bosnia's Moslem community addressing crowd;
People applauding;
JABLANICA (3/9):
VS Moslems praying;
Alija Izetbegovic, the Bosnian President praying;
Boys elevated with SDA flags;
Izetbegovic praying;
ZENICA, FILE
VS Moslem guerrillas in black;
Izetbegovic in military dress;
Moslem guerrillas in white;
SARAJEVO, 10/9
Women in Moslem dress;
Islamic Bank storefront;
Newspaper with Arabic script;
SARAJEVO, FILE
Sarajevo by night with Muezzin calling believers to prayer;
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BOSNIA: CROATS BLOCK MUSLIMS VISITING GRAVEYARD
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Croats have prevented a group of about 1-thousand Muslims from visiting a graveyard in a Croat controlled town west of Tuzla in Bosnia.
Scuffles broke out during an angry confrontation near Maglaj on Saturday.
In a reminder of lingering enmity between Croats and Muslims, some 1,000 Muslims were blocked from travelling along a road by Croats.
The Muslims tried to visit a graveyard in the Bosnian Croat-controlled town of Novi Seher, 70 kilometres (44 miles) west of Tuzla.
But their way was blocked by Croats.
The Muslims were travelling to celebrate a religious festival and visit grave sites in the area.
Problems arose when the group, led by Bosnia's senior Muslim cleric, Rais-l-Ulema Mustafa Ceric, were prevented from travelling.
Several people were slightly injured in the scuffles and a few buses were damaged.
Bosnian government-run radio reported the confrontation, saying helicopters of the NATO-led peace force were flying over the area and that Muslims were still being blocked on their way back to the town of Maglaj.
U-N police and troops from NATO-led peace force in Bosnia were called in.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
And then I heard about all the buses that were stopped and people were denied to continue the ceremony they had planned.
SUPER CAPTION: Commander Jan Bergstrom, Nordic Brigadier
Bosnian government radio also said several thousand Muslims retaliated by blocking the main highway between Muslim-controlled Zenica and Croat-controlled Zepce.
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Bosnia - Serbs Show Off Moslem Prisoners
Bosnian serb forces on Saturday (3/12) showed off more than 150
Moslem Fifth corp. prisoners from the fighting near velika kladusa
in the beleagured Bihac enclave. The prisoners were filmed by
a wtn camera crew 3 kms north of velika kladusa.
SHOWS:
VELIKA KLADUSA (3/12)
WTN common RTV
soldier behind logs
soldiers in woods
long view town below
various views of moslem deserters lined-up in two rows
vs close-ups of the moslem soldiers
soldiers walk off
ends: 1.31
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Bosnia - Bosnian Croats Visit Graves
T/I: 10:49:22
A group of 42 Bosnian Croats were granted permission by local Bosnian Serb authorities on Sunday (12/5) to visit family graves at the village of Lipa, 10 kilometres north-west of Serb-held Modrica in northern Bosnia. Protected by American IFOR troops, the refuges, who now live in
Croat-held Odzak crossed the inter-entity boundary lines (IEBL) to visit Lipa, their former home.
SHOWS:
VILLAGE LIPA, NEAR MODRICA BOSNIA 12/5:
Arrival of group of Bosnian Croats at the local graveyard in Lipa
village;
Cu of woman with flowers;
Tank standing by;
Soldiers standing by;
Authorities with soldiers;
Families being driven to grave sites;
Families in cemetery;
Families cleaning up the graves;
Woman crying by a grave;
Cu of tomb stone;
Men lifting up fallen tomb stone;
Woman lighting candles;
Catholic priest saying Sunday Mass;
Vs of people;
Cu of priest giving sermon;
American IFOR lieutenant engsot saying there was a committment by local officials on both sides to make the visit a success and they
involved the local police on both sides and we have had the cemetery secured. The IPTF in its role working with the police on both sides have assisted in the coordination of this visit;
Candles surrounding grave;
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Bosnia - Miss Bosnia 1996
T/I 10:10:56
Hundreds of Sarajevans gathered in the Cultural Center of the Bosnian capital to attend the crowning of Belma Zvrko, as Miss Bosnia 1996. Runners-up were Narcisa Gakovic from Bihac and Emira Mesanovic from Sarajevo. All three are eighteen years of age.
Miss World competition to be held
in India next month.
SHOWS:
BOSNIA, 13/10
Miss Bosnia beauty pageant,
women walking along stage,
cuts of audience,
woman in black bathing suit strutting down stage,
woman in checkered bathing suit walking,
group of women in bathing suits being judged;
CUTS of audience,
winner announced,
women embrace,
CU of winner smiling;
Winner receives victory sash,
holding flowers with runners up at her side,
smiling;
Miss Bosnia dancing her victory dance with man,
music playing;
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Bosnia - Croats open fire on Muslims
T/I: 10:51:07
Four Bosnians were hit by gunfire when Croats opened fire on Muslims visiting a cemetary in the divided Bosnian city of Mostar, the United Nations said on Monday (10/02).
Mostar is a city where hostility between Muslims and Croats threatens the stability of the Bosnian federation formed under the Dayton Peace Agreement.
SHOWS:
MOSTAR, BOSNIA 10/02
VS Muslims walking towards cemetery;
MS of panicking crowd;
police beating people;
sound of shots;
MS badly injured man being carried to car;
VS injured people being treated in hospital;
SOT, Bosnian cleric, (in Bosnian): We were stopped by Croatian police and an angry crowd, armed with guns, and they opened fire, and threw stones on people
SOT Alexander Ivanko, UN spokesman (in english): As far as we understand the group of Bosnian Muslims was visiting a cemetery on Bajram, which is the end of Ramadan, in west Mostar, and a group of Croats in that area opend fire at the Muslims, and we belive there are at least four casulties. We don't know if they are killed or wounded, but we belive they are wounded.;
PAN street;
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Bosnia - Bodies exhumed for mass funeral
T/I: 10:59:18
Some 10,000 people gathered in the southern Bosnian city of Mostar on Saturday (09/05) for the funeral of 186 people killed during the 1993-94 Croat-Muslim war. Their bodies were recently exhumed from several mass grave sites in the area. All but one of the victims buried was Muslim. That person was a Serb.
SHOWS:
MOSTAR, BOSNIA, 09/05
WS pan coffins and mourners,
WS coffins lying on ground,
CU coffin draped with flag,
WS coffins;
Mourners kneeling and praying,
MS coffins,
Children's coffins,
Leaders praying,
VS praying and coffins;
Haris Silajdzic, Co-Prime Minister of Bosnia's joint government standing with Mostar's Mayor, Safet Orucevic,
Soldiers carrying coffins onto back of a truck,
Children crying,
Women hugging and crying,
Silajdzic walking amongst the coffins;
Haris Silajdzic, Co-Prime Minister of Bosnia's joint government, Today we this is the day of victory over facism and the day of Europe, this is the best proof that fascism is not dead in Europe and we still have to free this continent and this country of fascism. We believe it is possible that those who committed this will be punished while we move forward into a democratic and multi-ethnic European Bosnia-Herzegovina.
WS coffins.
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Bosnia - Standoff between Muslims and Croats
T/I: 10:43:44
A standoff developed between Muslims and Croats in central Bosnia on Saturday (10/8) after Croats blocked a planned Muslim religious festival. United Nations police and troops from the NATO-led peace
Implementation Force (IFOR) in Bosnia were on the scene and NATO helicopters flew over the area.
SHOWS:
NEAR MAGLAJ, BOSNIA 10/8:
WS of road with two cyclists on it;
WS of Muslims walking down road from Maglaj city;
Muslims walking and chanting;
International police watching them;
Two IFOR helicopters flying over;
More of Muslims walking down road;
Stopped by police on the imaginary border and arguing with authorities;
woman trying to translate for Muslim leader to international police (ITPF);
Policeman saying it is not their task to make it able for Muslims to go to the village;
Truck being stopped by Muslims and arguments going on;
Old man getting angry and saying police don't provide freedom of movement;
Helicopter overhead;
Police explain the reason is because they can't guarantee security for them;
Commander Jan Bergstrom, Nordic brigadier, engsot saying I heard all about the buses that were stopped and people were denied to continue the ceremony they had planned;
Muslims praying in field;
WS of same;
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Bosnia - 3 Bosnian Muslims injured in shooting
T/I: 10:22:39
As Bosnia prepares for general elections next month, three Bosnian Muslims were badly injured Sunday (25/8) in two separate incidents close to the boundary between Serb and Muslim areas of Sarajevo, officials said.
Meanwhile in Mostar overnight, two hand grenades were thrown from a car in the Muslim-controlled eastern half of the city. Only one grenade exploded and there were no reports of any injuries.
SHOWS:
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA 25/8;
WS of street with police waving car past;
PANS to holes in road;
MS of scene where they were shot;
MS of soldiers talking;
SOT IFOR Spokesman LT. Max Mariner, It appeared that they have been severely beaten with stick or bat then shot in legs
WS of hospital exterior;
MS of woman victim lying in bed being tended to;
CU of woman's beaten face;
MS of nurse tending to woman;
MS of male victim in bed sleeping;
CU of beaten face;
MS of reporter;
SOT Mariner, It is incongruous at this time as we approach democratic
elections that we have this kind of gross thuggery going on whether its
political or criminal or ethnic, it's stil utterly wrong.
WS of sarajevo street with tanks;
MS of IFOR soldiers in street;
MS of soldiers in tank guarding;
MS of IFOR soldier talking to citizen;
PAN of shooting scene;
MOSTAR, 25/8;
WS of nite vision explosion scene;
MS police on scene;
CU of items in road at scene;
MS of grenade in road;
WS of explosion scene;
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BOSNIA: LIPA: BOSNIAN SERBS ALLOW CROATS TO VISIT FAMILY GRAVES
English/Nat
In a tentative sign of decreasing tension, a group of 42 Bosnian Croats has been granted permission by local Bosnian Serb authorities to cross the invisible line that separates ethnic communities.
This allowed them to visit family graves in their former village, now in Serb-held Bosnia.
A group of Croat refugees, formerly residents of Lipa village, departed early Sunday morning from their current place of residence in Croat-held Odzak in north Bosnia.
With the protection of IFOR troops they crossed successfully the invisible line that divides ethnic communities in Bosnia.
By midday, they were at Lipa, 10 kilometres northwest of Serb-held Modrica in northern Bosnia.
Accompanied by a Bosnian Croat Catholic priest from Odzak, the refugees paid homage to their deceased relatives at the local cemetery.
After cleaning up the family graves, the relatives attended an improvised open-air mass in the graveyard.
An American IFOR spokesman, whose troops escorted the visiting Croats, considered the visit a success.
SOUNDBITE:
There was a commitment by local officials on both sides to make today's visit a success and consequently they involved the local police on both sides and as you can see we've got Serb police securing the gravesite which is in Serb territory as is defined by the IEBL (Inter-Entity Boundary lines) currently. The IPTF in its role working with the police on both sides has assisted in the coordination and the assistance of this visit.
SUPER CAPTION: US IFOR military spokesman
He also pointed out the importance of peaceful negotiations by both the Bosnian Croat and Serb sides.
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BOSNIA: MUSLIMS AND CROATS EXCHANGE PRISONERS OF WAR
Serbo-Croat/Nat
Bosnian Muslims and Croats have exchanged 13 prisoners of war near Mostar.
The swap of eight Muslims and five Croats took place on a makeshift bridge in Potoci, about 10 kilometers (six miles) north of Mostar under the auspices of the International Red Cross, the International Police Task Force and European monitors.
The exchange of prisoners between Muslims and Croats was long overdue - under the Dayton peace agreement, all P-O-Ws should have been handed over by January 19th.
Seven of the eight Muslim prisoners were soldiers from Middle East countries, while one of the Croats was said to hold Swedish citizenship.
Jack Arklov, a mercenary, is a neo-Nazi who has spent a number of years in prison.
SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat)
The Croatian side has released seven Mujahideen and one former JNA soldier. We also gave one Swedish man, who was a member of the HVO who has been handed over personally to the Swedish ambassador.
SUPER CAPTION: Berislav Pusic, Croat spokesman
During the four years of civil war in Bosnia several hundred Islamic mercenaries - Mujahideen - fought together with Bosnian Muslims.
Their presence in Bosnia was admitted by the international community only after the deployment of I-FOR troops.
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BOSNIA: MOSTAR: BOSNIAN CROATS PROTEST
Croat/Nat
Hundreds of Bosnian Croats marched across Mostar on Friday, protesting against the United Nations War Crimes tribunal in the Hague, which they say is prejudiced against Croats.
Last week, the court gave lengthy jail sentences to five former Bosnian Croat soldiers for war-crimes committed against their Muslim neighbours.
The protestors say the sentences are unjust and accuse the international community of siding with the Muslims in Bosnia.
Nearly a thousand protestors took to the streets of Mostar on Friday, angry at the sentences handed out by the Hague war crimes tribunal in its first ethnic cleansing case.
The five Bosnian Croats were sentenced to a total of 64 years for their role in the 1993 massacre of the Muslim population of the Ahmici village in central Bosnia.
They were jailed for a house-to-house killing rampage that emptied Ahmici of its Muslim inhabitants.
More than 100 people, including women and children, were killed while the rest fled.
But the demonstrators on Friday, carrying banners saying: Stop the injustice, and Our basic right is being jeopardized - the right to live, called for support for all Croats accused by the Tribunal.
Other banners said: The Hague - a court farce.
Many Bosnian Croats believe the Tribunal is pro-Muslim and that the international community in general is siding with the Muslims in Bosnia.
Ante Jakic, the leader of the Croat war-veterans, called the Croat prisoners in The Hague honest people and read a manifesto demanding Croat politicians to stop cooperating with the tribunal and the international community.
The manifesto also demanded a separate political entity for Croats in Bosnia, which was not included in the Dayton peace agreement.
Dragan Papic, who was previously acquitted by the tribunal, called for support for all Croats imprisoned in The Hague.
He said that while he was jailed there the visits and support from a Catholic priest and other wellwishers from his homeland kept his spirit high.
SOUNDBITE: (Croatian)
Bosnian Catholic monks are behind those guys (the five former Bosnian Croat soldiers sentenced to 25 years by the Hague), that means that all the Croatian people are behind them as well.;
SUPER CAPTION: Dragan Papic, acquitted for war crimes
The peace agreement that stopped the 1992-95 war here recognized Bosnia as a unified country but divided into two fairly autonomous regions - one Bosnian Serb republic and the other Muslim-Croat.
But the 1995 agreement, brokered in Dayton, Ohio, sealed the Muslim war-time goal of a unified and independent Bosnia - the opposite of what most of the Bosnian Croats and Serbs had fought for.
This has left many Croats with an abiding feeling of injustice.
SOUNDBITE: (Croatian)
I think everything is unfair to us. I think Aljia Izetbegovic should be tried and all his associates as well. He is responsible for everything that happened to Croats in Bosnia.
SUPER CAPTION: VOXPOP Old woman (lost 2 sons during war)
SOUNDBITE: (Croatian)
This is absolute injustice to Croats who have never done anything during the war, and for those as well who are convicted in the Hague. I think it's not fair that other sides (Serbs and Muslims) walk freely though these streets, there are real criminals and there are not in the Hague.
SUPER CAPTION: VOXPOP Old man
Despite the peace agreement, and the war crimes tribunal which was meant to right the wrongs of the war, the bitterness that remains.
Many people here are still calling for the country to be split up and to join parts of it to either neighbouring Serbia or Croatia.
This is the tightrope that international diplomats have to walk every day.
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Bosnia - Serbs attack returning Muslims
T/I: 10:51:57
NATO troops were holding 35 Bosnian Serbs, including policemen, on Thursday (29/8) after a gun battle between Serbs and Muslims in the northeastern Bosnian village of Mahala. The incident is linked to the return of Muslim refugees to the village on the Bosnian Serb side of the internal boundary. The Muslims had begun reconstructing their homes in the completely destroyed village.According to UN spokesman Alex Ivanko, the coordinated attack took place on Thursday morning when 50 Bosnian Serbs attacked the villagers in an attempt toethnically cleanse them from the area.
SHOWS:
MAHALA, BOSNIA, 29 AUGUST, 1996
IFOR APC ;
Muslim men milling around IFOR vehicles;
Wounded Bosnian Man SOT in Bosnian, saying about 70 serb police came in and started attacking everyone. I escaped, but my wife and 14 year old daughter are still in the village;
Aerial of house;
Ws of APC;
VS of helicopter above;
IFOR APC with Muslim men;
LS IFOR troops;
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CROATIA/BOSNIA: SERB CROAT AND MUSLIM REFUGEES UPDATE
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Serb, Croat and Muslim refugees streamed across the former Yugoslavia on Monday in an exodus driven by nationalists seeking to create ethnically homogeneous lands.
Despite the ongoing ethnic cleansing, the US is still optimistic that a peace settlement can be reached, although this optimism isn't echoed in Sarajevo.
Meanwhile, the Bosnian government claims that soldiers from Serbia have joined their Bosnian Serb allies in the battle in the former Yugoslav republic.
The flow of refugees has swollen dramatically this month with the Croatian recapture of Krajina, reprisal expulsions by Bosnian Serbs and the Serb seizure of the UN safe areas of Srebrenica and Zepa.
These Croats are the first wave of refugees from Banja Luka, who made the trip over the River Sava into Croatia.
According to the UN relief agency UNHCR, Bosnian Serb authorities want to evacuate all of the 12-thousand Croats to Croatia proper.
The Bosnian Serbs are thought to want to make space for rebel Serbs recently displaced from the Krajina region.
The UN fears the worst - it also expects a mass expulsion from Banja Luka of the remaining Muslim population.
SOUNDBITE
And then Banja Luka will achieve the barbaric goal of ethnic purity.
.
SUPER CAPTION: Kris Janowski - United Nations spokesperson
Adding to the refugees' misery, it became clear that Serb forces were not allowing men under the age of 45 to make the crossing into Croatia.
Even those who got through had little to rejoice about.
VOXPOPS: (In Serbo-Croat)
We were forced out by the Serbs, they came into my house and kicked me out. For 60 years I've worked, and this is all I've got left.
Despite ethnic cleansing becoming a reality on the ground, Washington said it was optimistic about the chances of negotiating a peace settlement.
SOUNDBITE:
It's a combination of factors that have changed the environment in the landscape in Bosnia; the fighting, the losses, the significant losses by both sides, the sense that both sides are nearly exhausting themselves in the conflict that has now raged on for far too long.
SUPER CAPTION: Mike McCurry - White House spokesperson
But this optimism was not echoed in Sarajevo.
Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic said that it was unlikely his government would agree to a renegotiation of the Contact Group plan, involving an exchange of territory with Bosnian Serbs.
Silajdzic also claimed that IDs found on Serb soldiers captured during recent fighting in Krajina and Bosnia suggested they came from Serbia proper.
SOUNDBITE
We have names of people from Serbia now captured in the Bihac area. All of them names and their addresses come from Serbia, so this is an invasion, this is an aggression. It's not the Bosnian Serbs only fighting here it's the Serbs from Serbia.
SUPER CAPTION: Haris Silajdzic - Bosnian Prime Minister
Meanwhile, hundreds of Zagreb residents Monday turned out to welcome home the victorious frontline troops from the 101st brigade.
They lined the streets and cheered the soldiers.
Local radio stations had urged people to take to the streets to give the boys a fitting return home.
VOXPOPS: (Serbo-Croat)
I had to leave my home in Banja Luka because my son was in the Croatian army. I am so excited that he is alive and is coming home.
The 101st brigade was involved in the offensive around Petrinja over the last two weeks.
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BOSNIA: MASS GRAVE EXCAVATIONS
Serbo-Croat/Nat
Excavations of what are possibly the bodies of more Bosnian Muslims have started in Mrkonjic Grad near Banja Luka.
They're being uncovered in the Muslim graveyard in Mrkonjic Grad: so far, seven bodies have been found.
It's been suggested they were killed when the town was controlled by Bosnian Croats.
Another mass grave has been located in Bosnia.
Excavations started on Saturday in the Muslim graveyard in Mrkonjic Grad near Banja Luka.
The grave contains seven bodies of what could be Muslims who were killed towards the end of 1995 when Mrkonjic Grad was controlled by the Bosnian Croats.
Before the town fell to the Croats about 400 Muslims and some Croats lived there.
When Mrkonjic Grad was recently handed over to the Serbs under in the Dayton peace plan nobody remained.
The Muslim population had wanted to stay, but the Croatian army in Bosnia forced them towards Bihac and the Croats left for Mostar.
Officials from I-FOR, the International police force and the International Red Cross were present as the bodies were excavated.
Mrkonjic Grad's public prosecutor and an investigative judge were among the local officials attending.
SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat)
We are professionals, we want to find the cause of death, not the religion of the victims.
SUPER CAPTION: Vitomir Soldat, Mrkonjic Grad public prosecutor
The bodies are believed to be Muslims, but this has yet to be confirmed.
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BOSNIA: FUNERAL OF 75 CIVILIANS RECOVERED FROM MASS GRAVE
Serbo-Croat/Nat
Thousands of people turned out on Saturday for the funeral of 75 civilians whose bodies were recovered from a mass grave last Friday.
War crimes investigators unearthed the bodies from the mass grave in Laniste, about 90 miles northwest of Sarajevo.
It's estimated that up to one-thousand five-hundred victims, mostly civilians, were killed in a wave of executions in the area between May and July 1992. 15 grave sites have been identified.
The victims - all male aged 16 to 60 - were from the village of Donji Biljani. Only two local men survived the massacre.
The tragedy of the war in Bosnia is still unfolding.
About five thousand mourners turned out on Saturday for the funeral of friends and family.
The 75 bodies were recovered last Friday from a mass grave in Laniste, about 90 miles northwest of Sarajevo.
According to judge Adil Draganovic, who's leading the investigation into war crimes in this region, the Bosnian Muslims were ordered by the Serbs, to go to the local school to pick up documents.
When they arrived there, they were lined-up and shot.
It is estimated that up to 200 victims, mostly civilians, are buried there.
The victims - all male aged 16 to 60 - were from the village of Donji Biljani. Only two local men survived the massacre.
But, for the living, the pain lives on.
Sabra Cehic is one of the mothers grieving for missing sons.
SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat)
Q. Who are you burying?
A. Two sons.
SUPER CAPTION: Sabra Cehic, a mourner at the funeral.
The thought of how their lives was terminated is even more tormenting.
SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat)
The School in Velagici. That's where they took them and killed them.
SUPER CAPTION: Sabra Cehic, a mourner at the funeral.
After a post-mortem was carried out, the bodies were released to the victims' families for a traditional Muslim burial in the town of Kljuc.
Local Muslim priest Hasan Efendija Makic led the funeral prayers for the victims. The coffins were then taken to local cemeteries for burial.
Although a peace agreement has been reached between the warring factions, implementing it has yet to materialise.
General Atif Dudakovic, Commander of the 5th Bihac Corps, reminded the mourners of the killers of their relations.
SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat)
We have to know that this was not done by Finns or Hungarians. Our neighbours, the Serbs, did this. It's clear and defined who our enemy is
SUPER CAPTION: Gen. Atif Dudakovic, Commander of the 5th Bihac Corp.
Peace is a state of mind, and so far it is still far from reaching in war-torn former Yugoslavia.
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Bosnia - Clashes Between Serbs And Bosnians
T/I: 10:56:44
Muslim refugees on Thursday (25/4) fought with Serbs as they tried to visit their homes in the now Serb-held villages of Caparde and Mahala. The Muslims were initially stopped by IFOR troops who tried to separate the two sides. Serbs were on the other side of the checkpoint waiting with rocks and sticks.
SHOWS
CAPARDE, (20 KM SOUTHEAST OF TUZLA) BOSNIA 25 APRIL, 1996
Barbed wire marking checkpoint
Bosnian Muslims walking along road
CU old man
Old man with walking stick
Helicopter overhead following crowd
IFOR soldiers with group
IFOR soldiers making blockade across road
Bosnian Muslims arguing with Bosnian police, Muslims and IFOR
More of group arguing
Bosnian Muslim crying in CROAT: This is my land, this is Bosnia. I worked for 40 years to build up my home here.
Another Bosnian Muslim man shouting
Tank and helicopter in distance
Various of UN stationary trucks on road
Helicopters hovering making a border between the Muslims and Serbs
Muslims crossing road from field
Rear of Muslims crossing field and throwing stones
Serbs and Muslims fighting
Wrecked building
Soldiers talking to civilians trying to break up fight
More Serb and Muslim scuffles
People and trucks along road
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Bosnia - Muslim Refugee Camp
T/I: 10:45:51
The United Nations said on Friday (28/7) that Bosnian Serb forces
had now driven out almost all Moslem civilians from the captured
safe area of Zepa in the eastern Bosnia, but government troops
still refuse to surrender. 400 to 500 civilians were waiting to join others at a refugee tent camps in Zenica, in government-held central Bosnia.
SHOWS:
ZENICA 28/7
ws refugees camp
refugees washing clothes
woman with bananas
un soldiers with children
soldiers digging drainage trench
family in tent
officials arrives
gv camp
officials walk through camp
delegation talking to refugees
sot unhcr special representative arne willem Bijleveld saying it is sad to see refugees from zepa...that the agencies have cooperated well to
esablish a very receiving system for them
refugees at table
child
man in tent
gv tents
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Bosnia - Situation
Muslim forces continued their offensive on Saturday (29/1) on the Bosnian-Croat town of Vitez. Shelling and sniper fire are a daily occurrence as the muslims attempt to overrun the strategically important town.
SHOWS: VARIOUS BOSNIA, 29/1
VITEZ 29/1
smoke pouring from building on horizon
soldier fires
exchange of fire between croat and muslims
rocket launcher fired
soldier taking aim from window
soldier in trench
various exchanges
explosion
VITEZ 30/1
pan down to mortar damaged church
pan to police station exterior
ZENICA 30/1
ec liason officer martin garrod we understand police
investigation is underway and arrests have been made and police
are eliminating people from their inquiry
police chief azim fazlic saying it's difficult to know if the
mujahideen was responsible but the people involved were
foreigners'
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