Widow of man killed in Vukovar reacts to Hadzic arrest
(20 Jul 2011) SHOTLIST
1. Rear mid tracking shot of Manda Patko, whose husband was killed by Goran Hadzic's soldiers in Vukovar, walking towards Ovcara cemetery near Vukovar
2. Side tracking shot of Patko walking
3. Tracking shot behind Patko walking
4. Pan of Patko walking to memorial cemetery monument in Ovcara
5. Wide of Patko approaching monument
6. Mid rear shot of Patko as she prays at the monument for Croatian victims of Vukovar
7. Wide of Patko praying
8. Close of Patko's hands held in prayer
9. Mid of monument and Patko, pull focus
10. Close side view of Patko praying
11. Mid of Patko and monument
12. SOUNDBITE: (Croatian) Manda Patko, widow who lost her husband in Vukovar:
I was left in the room, where we were all sitting. He (her husband) said to me: 'I'm going'. Then he asked me: 'What should I tell them?' I told him: 'Don't lie to them, tell them you are a Croatian defender. You were defending your country, your family, your town. You didn't go anywhere to attack anyone.' Tell them: 'You were only defending yourself.' He was taken away. I still don't know where he is. Unfortunately. I'd find my peace if I knew where his bones were so I could bury him. All I want is to have a place where I can light a candle for him, pray for him, put some flowers for him. Many years have passed, they (the war victims) are not often found any more these days. I'm losing hope that I will find him before I die. Will I leave this task to my children? We shall see. But all those years were very painful.
13. Close of pigeon, symbol of peace, curved in the monument
14. SOUNDBITE: (Croatian) Manda Patko, widow who lost her husband in Vukovar:
Perhaps I will find comfort if our dead were found. But as for him (Hadzic), even if he gets a 100 year punishment, it would not be enough to satisfy us, the victims. Hadzic was the main perpetrator of all the fighting here in Vukovar, and everything to do with it - it was all the work of his hands.
15. Side shot of Patko walking through the memorial centre
16. Mid of candles at the memorial centre, Patko standing in the distance
17. Mid of Patko looking at crosses around the mass grave
18. Wide of memorial centre, with memorial in the foreground and black clouds in the background
STORYLINE
The news that Goran Hadzic, the former leader of Croatia's ethnic Serbs, was arrested on Wednesday did not distract Croatian war widow Manda Patko from her regular visit to the memorial at Ovcara, the site of a mass grave for victims of the massacre and destruction in nearby Vukovar.
Manda goes every day to pay her respects at the memorial centre monument because her husband Stjepan is still not found and she has no grave to visit.
In November 1991, after three months of siege of the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar, the victorious Serbian forces stormed the destroyed city and that's when Manda saw her husband being taken away by Serb soldiers.
She knows that her Stjepan is dead, executed by soldiers of Goran Hadzic, the Serb general and politician who was in charge of the assault of Vukovar.
Hadzic, the last fugitive sought by the United Nations' Balkan war crimes tribunal, was seized on Wednesday in a remote area in northern Serbia.
But his arrest does not bring closure to Croatian victims.
Manda Patko and her husband Stjepan were both arrested by storming Serb troops and taken to prison camp just outside of Vukovar.
Her husband Stjepan was in his trousers, and she was wearing a winter coat.
As soldiers approached Stjepan they already knew he was a Croat soldier.
Soon after the Patkos were detained, Stjepan was separated from his wife and taken away.
even if he gets a 100 year punishment, it would not be enough to satisfy us, the victims, Patko said.
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WRAP Serbian pres apologises for war massacre, lays wreath at mass grave; ADDS s'bites
(4 Nov 2010)
Ovcara
1. Various of Serbian President Boris Tadic approaching memorial, laying wreath and placing candle
2. Wide of Tadic standing in front of memorial UPSOUND: trumpet playing
3. Mid of Croatian soldiers
4. Various of Croatian President Ivo Josipovic approaching memorial and laying wreath
5. Various of families of Croat victims praying at the memorial
6. Various of man wearing t-shirt showing image of Croat General Ante Gotovina, indicted for war crimes against the Serbs
7. Wide of memorial, relatives in the foreground
Paulin Dvor
8. Wide of Paulin Dvor cemetery where Serbian victims are buried
9. Serbian President Boris Tadic and Croatian President Ivo Josipovic arrive at cemetery
10. Various Tadic laying wreath and candle at memorial
11. Mid of soldiers
12. Josipovic laying wreath
13. Josipovic and Tadic standing at podium for news conference
14. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Ivo Josipovic, President of Croatia:
Here in Paulin Dvor, an horrific crime was committed. There is no justification for the crimes committed. Revenge for the crime is not the solution. This crime needs to be condemned, the victims should be respected, and families of the victims should receive our apology. Crimes do not grow old, Croatia will always pursue the perpetrators of these crimes. It is our obligation because we are a state where law is respected.'
15. Cutaway of wreaths
16. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Boris Tadic, President of Serbia:
I bow to all the victims of the atrocities, believing that we are doing a good job now for the forthcoming generations and our children.
17. Wide of woman standing in the graveyard
18. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Boris Tadic, President of Serbia:
The time to arrest Mladic was yesterday and the day before yesterday. And all of these past years. I want to assure you here in Vukovar, that Serbia is doing its utmost to finish this process. There is a lot of disbelief outside about this, but I can tell you that the institutions of Serbia, and myself as president, are doing everything possible to do this job and get it over with.
19. Wide of Tadic and Josipovic leaving
20. Various of destroyed buildings in Vukovar
STORYLINE
Serbian President Boris Tadic apologised on Thursday at the site in Croatia where more than 200 Croats were massacred, offering the strongest condemnation to date by a leader from Serbia of wartime atrocities committed by the country.
Laying a wreath at Ovcara, a former pig farm where a mass grave remains a painful symbol for Croats of Serb brutality during the 1991 ethnic war, Tadic said he came to bow down before the victims.
A few hours later, Croatian counterpart Ivo Josipovic laid a wreath at the graveyard of 18 Serbs killed by Croats in 1991 in a nearby village of Paulin Dvor and Josipovic said that the victims should be respected, and families of the victims should receive our apology.
The slaying in Paulin Dvor came a month after the massacre at Ovcara.
Though relations between the neighbours have vastly improved, the two presidents' joint tour of the killing sites and apologies offer a symbolic step of reconciliation after years of mutual accusations over atrocities.
Tadic is the first Serb leader to visit Ovcara, the site of one of the worst massacres of the Balkan conflicts that followed the post-communism break-up of Yugoslavia.
More than 200 Croats were executed at Ovcara after Serb soldiers dragged them out of a local hospital.
Accompanied by Josipovic, Tadic said the two of them visited the site near the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar to turn a new page of history.
Vukovar was levelled by Serb bombardment in November 1991, after a three-month siege, leaving hundreds dead and forcing even more to flee their homes.
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Vukovar - city which suffered worst shelling of Yugoslav war
Recent - February 2002
1. Wide shot church in Vukovar
2. Various bomb and shell damage in Vukovar town
3. Various mass grave where 5,000 Vukovar victims of the Yugoslav War are buried
4. Various Ovcara mass grave where Serbs took away people from the city hospital and killed them in November 1991
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sandra Cvikic, Vice President of the Fund for the Restoration and Development of the City of Vukovar
I think everything will end with this trial and that the people will be finally served with the justice that they have waited for, for so long. And I think for Croatia as a country, this will show to the world that justice is served and that good won over evil.
6. Various damaged former water tower in Vukovar
7. SOUNDBITE: (Croatian) Ante Penava, Vukovar Deputy Mayor
Today in Vukovar we are able to see people walking alongside each other on the streets, and you know for sure that some of them are guilty of (says that these people are former neighbours, i.e., Serbs who Penava says allegedly committed war crimes, including Yugoslav Army General Mile Mrksic). At the same time unfortunately today there is no-one who can bring them to justice. On the contrary there are a few people who believe they have the right to take positions in local government.
8. Various statue of fallen heroes of World War Two
9. Various memorial by River Danube
STORYLINE:
On Tuesday, former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic goes on trial at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.
Milosevic is charged with genocide in Bosnia and crimes against humanity in Croatia and Kosovo.
The former Yugoslav leader is the only head of state ever indicted for war crimes while in office - the most senior person to be called to account since Hermann Goering, second only to Hitler, was sentenced to death by the International Military Tribunal after World War II.
The Milosevic case is the climax of years of investigation and case files compiled since the Yugoslav tribunal was set up by the United Nations in 1993 to try those responsible for the violent collapse of the Balkans.
The once mighty Serb leader is charged with 66 counts of atrocities from the wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo.
Prosecutors say he was behind a systematic plan to create a larger Serb state through the forced expulsion
and murder of non-Serbs in parts of those territories, including the city of Vukovar.
Residents of this Croatian town which suffered atrocities during the Balkan wars comment on the extradition of Slobodan Milosevic on the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague.
The city suffered the most intensive shelling of the Yugoslav War.
Lying on the banks of the River Danube, the Vukovar once had 45-thousand inhabitants.
In May 1991, Croatia proclaimed independence.
Milosevic is widely believed to have whipped up the virulent nationalism that ripped the former Yugoslav federation apart in 1991 and to have bankrolled the minority Serb rebellion against Croatian independence that same year.
In the summer of 1991, the Yugoslav army started pounding the city.
Locals took up arms to resist the attack.
But the city fell on November 18 1991, after a three-month pounding with canons, tanks and aircraft by the Yugoslav Army that left Vukovar in ruins.
Around 800,000 shells were said to have fallen during this period of 100 days.
Residents of Croatian descent were in the majority, followed by minorities of Serbs and Muslims.
The town was also the scene of the first big reported massacre of civilians by Serbs who reportedly executed hundreds of Croatian hospital patients after taking the town.
The wounded, civilians and medical staff were taken to Ovcara, to a nearby farm.
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Reactions to Hadzic's arrest from town destroyed by his forces
(20 Jul 2011) SHOTLIST
Vukovar - 20 July 2011
1. Exterior of Ovcara memorial in Vukovar
2. Mid of Catholic cross inside memorial
3. Close of painting showing bloody hands bound together
4. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Ante Micic, Croatian resident of Vukovar:
Of course we are glad to hear that he's been arrested (Serbian war crimes fugitive Goran Hadzic). But I think it is just a political move, now that they (Serbia) need to join the European Union.
5. Close of sign at the memorial reading In this place, during 1991, Croatian defenders, children, women and the elderly were imprisoned, tortured and murdered
6. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Marija Bulo, Croatian Vukovar resident whose relative was murdered in nearby Ovcara:
The guilt for the war is split nowadays. Now we don't even know who was the aggressor and who was the victim any more.
7. Pan from Croatian flag to the memorial centre
8. Mid of destroyed building
9. SOUNDBITE (Croation) Marko Bulic, Croatian Vukovar resident:
I think finally justice has been served.
10. Tracking shot of the old hospital and damaged buildings
11. Wide exterior showing the new hospital
12. Wide of medical staff passing by
13. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Mara Peljkovic, nurse at Vukovar hospital:
It was about time he was arrested. He will have to face justice now, and respond to what he did here.
14. Wide of people by the hospital entrance
15. Tracking shot of the town
16. Wide of the market
17. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Vujadin Misic, Serb resident of Vukovar:
My comment is very simple. Every crime was committed by an individual who has his name and surname. Those with names should be held responsible. All of the people, one nation, should not be blamed for what certain individuals have done.
18. Wide of people walking past fruit stalls
19. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) vox pop, Vukovar resident, name unknown:
I honestly don't know anything about it (the arrest). I haven't been informed.
20. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Mirko Maric, Croatian resident of Vukovar:
I think he should have been arrested a long time ago.
(Q: What do you think Serbs here should do now?)
I don't know. They are hiding from cameras here. They got what they deserved.
21. Maric getting into his car
22. Maric showing Croatian war time insignia hanging inside his car
23. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Milan Cizmic, Serb resident of Vukovar:
I have no comment.
(Q: Are you a Serb or a Croat?)
I am a Serb.
(Q: What is your comment on Hadzic's arrest?)
I have no comment, don't ask me.
24. Wide of Orthodox church
25. Tracking shot of the town
FILE: Vukovar - 25 November 1991
26. Close of truck, pull out to wide of Vukovar hospital after it was taken over by Serb forces
27. Mid of ambulances outside the hospital where 500 sick and wounded were trapped during Serb forces' advance
28. Mutilated bodies among hundreds of dead at Vukovar hospital
29. Various of destroyed buildings
30. Mid of Serb soldier at the window of Vukovar hospital
31. Wide of the destroyed Vukovar town hall
STORYLINE
There were mixed reactions to the news of the arrest of war crimes fugitive Goran Hadzic from residents of the Croatian town of Vukovar on Wednesday, which was left devastated by Hadzic's forces.
Hadzic, the last fugitive sought by the United Nations' Balkan war crimes tribunal, was seized on Wednesday in a remote area in northern Serbia.
His arrest has been hailed by some as the symbolic closure of a horrific chapter in Balkan history, and an important step towards the former pariah state of Serbia joining the European Union.
But for others in the town of Vukovar, home to both Serbs and Croats, his arrest brought back painful wartime memories.
He will have to face justice now, and respond to what he did here, she said.
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Balkan war survivor returns to scene of atrocity
(22 Jul 2011) SHOTLIST
1. Wide Vijoleta Antolic, survivor of the Velepromet concentration camp on the outskirts of Vukovar, arriving at a warehouse on the site of the camp where she was imprisoned with other Croats (the buildings belonged to the company Velepromet)
2. Antonia crosses herself in front of the memorial sign on the building where prisoners were held
3. Close Antolic's face
4. Mid reverse shot of Antolic standing in front of memorial sign on camp building
5. Wide Antolic walking towards the warehouse where prisoners were held
6. Mid tracking shot of the path leading to the warehouse gate
7. Reverse wide shot of Antolic approaching the gate
8. Antolic outside the door turning around and giving the door a long look
9. Antolic walking away from the door
10. Wide of Velepromet warehouse where prisoners were held
11. SOUNDBITE: (Croatian) Vijoleta Antolic, survivor of Velepromet concentration camp in Vukovar:
Here, at this place, there was a lot of torture going on. Both males and females. Some of the people were killed instantly, and some were cut up. I saw that with my own eyes. People cut in pieces.... (she takes a deep breath) Both men and women were raped. It all happened without witnesses. We could only hear screams.
12. Tracking shots of the warehouse exterior
13. SOUNDBITE: (Croatian) Vijoleta Antolic, survivor of Velepromet concentration camp in Vukovar:
Men they pushed out in the yard here. Then they choose who is going where, who is going to live and who is not. Some, they kill immediately. That was the tactics. No one would see anything. So dead people cannot be traced. Only those who were taken away know exactly who killed them.
14. Wide of small warehouses within the Velepromet compound
15. Wide of Antolic arriving at one of the gates of the warehouse
16. Close Antolic passes by gates of the warehouse
17. Tracking shot of Antolic passing by warehouse gates
18. SOUNDBITE: (Croatian) Vijoleta Antolic, survivor of Velepromet concentration camp in Vukovar:
This is where they brought me for an execution. Here in this place. Behind me, in the 'room of death', they had beaten me up. Four of them. I was badly beaten. I could barely walk. Then they decided the best thing was to shoot me, because I did not have any information for them. Then, the same four guys who had beaten me, took me out here in the middle of the night. I stood by a pile of corpses which were just lying here.
19. Wide exterior yard of the warehouse
20. SOUNDBITE: (Croatian) Vijoleta Antolic, survivor of Velepromet concentration camp in Vukovar:
And then, at some point, one of them said 'We won't shoot you now. We might need you for something else.' Then, some time later, they took me back to the 'room of death' and put me there for further questioning and torture.
21. Mid front shot of Antolic walking
22. Mid back shot of Antolic walking
23. Antolic arrives at the yard of the warehouse, where people were executed
STORYLINE:
Standing at the gates of an industrial warehouse on the outskirts of the Croatian city of Vukovar, the strain and anguish are apparent on the face of Vijoleta Antolic.
When Serb troops overran Vukovar in eastern Croatia in 1991, Antolic was brought with her young son Zoran to the Velepromet warehouse compound.
She was imprisoned, beaten and repeatedly tortured in one of the buildings, which was dubbed the room of death, along with a large number of her countrymen, many of whom did not live to tell their stories.
Antolic herself was taken out for an execution, but survived.
Antolic had been a soldier in the Croatian army.
When Serb forces took the control of Vukovar, Antolic sought refuge along with her son Zoran at a local hospital.
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WRAP Croatian and Serb presidents meet; Tadic apology and wreath-laying
(4 Nov 2010) SHOTLIST
1. Boat carrying Serbian President Boris Tadic arriving at Vukovar port
2. Close of Tadic on boat
3. Tadic getting off boat, shaking hands with Croatian President Ivo Josipovic
4. Wide of Tadic and Josipovic walking away from port
5. Close of Croatian flag
6. Various of Serbian President Boris Tadic approaching memorial, laying wreath and placing candle
7. Wide of Tadic standing in front of memorial UPSOUND: trumpet playing
8. Mid of Croatian soldiers
9. Various of Croatian President Ivo Josipovic approaching memorial and laying wreath
10. Tadic and Josipovic arriving for news conference
11. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Ivo Josipovic, President of Croatia:
Ovcara is a place of pain and suffering. We came here today to pay our respects to the victims, but we also came to promise that no crimes will go unpunished.
12. Various of families of Croat victims praying at the memorial
13. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Boris Tadic, President of Serbia:
I came here today to bow to the victims. My intention is to pay my respects to them. Bowing to the victims, I came here to share words of apology. To express our sympathy. To create the possibility for Serbs and Croats, Serbia and Croatia, to open a new page in history. To create the possibility for our children to grow up carrying no burden created during the 1990's.
14. Female relatives praying for victims
15. Various of man wearing t-shirt showing image of Croat General Ante Gotovina, indicted for war crimes against the Serbs
16. Wide of memorial, relatives in the foreground
STORYLINE
Serbian President Boris Tadic apologised on Thursday for Serb wartime atrocities at the site where more than 200 Croats were slain by Serb rebels during the 1991 war.
Laying a wreath at Ovcara, a former pig farm where a mass grave remains a painful symbol for Croats of Serb brutality during the 1991 ethnic war, Tadic said he wanted to bow down before the victims and share words of apology.
Though relations between the two neighbours have vastly improved, the visit offered a symbolic step of reconciliation after years of mutual accusations over atrocities.
Tadic is the first Serb leader to visit the site, one of the worst massacres of the Balkan conflicts that followed the post-communism breakup of Yugoslavia.
Accompanied by his Croatian counterpart, Ivo Josipovic, Tadic said that the two of them visited the site near the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar to create the possibility that Croats and Serbs can turn a new page of history.
More than 200 Croats were executed at Ovcara after Serb soldiers dragged them out of a local hospital.
Vukovar was levelled by Serb bombardment in November 1991, after a three-month siege, leaving hundreds dead and forcing even more to flee their homes.
Some in Croatia opposed Tadic's visit, saying he should have first admitted that Serbs were aggressors in the war.
Several mothers of those killed in Vukovar came to Ovcara and turned their backs on Tadic as he spoke.
The two presidents will later lay wreaths for 18 Serbs killed by Croats in the nearby village of Paulin Dvor.
Serbia backed Croatian Serbs when they rebelled against the country's independence from Yugoslavia, which triggered the war.
The rebels seized a third of the country, and more than 10-thousand people were killed and entire communities expelled.
Four years later, Zagreb took back the territory in a blitz offensive, followed by a period of killings and purges of Serbs by Croatians.
The two neighbours have since largely patched up relations, but tensions persist and each nation still sees itself as the chief victim of the war.
They have sued each other for genocide before The Hague-based World Court and nearly 2,400 people remain missing.
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Spomen dom Ovčara
Memorijalni centar Domovinskog rata Vukovar: MCDR Vukovar
made by: Ivan Balaž
E.Slavonia - 'Liberation' Of Vukovar Commemorated
T/I: 11:03:44
Saturday, November 18, 1995, was the fourth anniversary of the
fall of Vukovar to an unremitting Serb artillery bombardment.
Serbs marked the anniversary of what they call the liberation of
Vukovar with a memorial service. Orthodox priests recited a
liturgy and an army honour guard loosed a volley of shots into the
air. Black-clad women--war widows and mothers who lost sons in the
fighting--wept and keened the names of their loved ones as they
carressed their tombs at the tiny Serb cemetery in the centre of
Vukovar. Today, we mark the day comparatively quietly, because of
the circumstances, said Slavko Dokmanovic, Vukovar's Serb mayor.
He was referring of course to the agreement, signed on November
12, that would restore Croatian authority to Vukovar after no more
than two years of international supervision. Meanwhile, in Zagreb, Vukovar's Croat mayor, Jure Kolak told
SHOWS:
VUKOVAR, EASTERN SLAVONIA, 18 NOVEMBER, 1995
00:00 vukovar streets
00:04 ws damaged building
00:08 more damaged buildings
00:12 ws anniversary commemoration
00:17 orthodox priest spreading incense
00:23 cu priest blessing city and its people
00:40 woman crying over grave
00:44 woman and child at base of cross
00:50 people praying
00:53 cu woman praying
00:59 ws various graves
01:06 woman crying over grave
01:11 women kissing tombstones
01:16 families crying by graveside
01:20 young girl crying
01:28 ws wreath laying ceremony by mayor of vukovar
01:40 mayor and another man laying wreath
01:46 soldiers laying wreath for fallen comrades
01:52 soldiers firing rifles into the air
02:03 vision ends
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Spomen dom Ovčara, Vukovar, 16.6.2018.
Various -Dokmanovic commits suicide before verdict
T/I: 10:28:00
A Croatian Serb accused of direct involvement in one of the
worst massacres of the Balkans conflict has committed suicide
after the end of his war crimes trial in The Hague.
Slavko Dokmanovic was accused by prosecutors of overseeing the
massacre in 1991 of more than 200 civilians in the eastern
Croatian city of Vukovar. His trial ended on Thursday (25/06)
and a verdict was expected within two weeks. He had denied the
charges.
Christian Chartier, a spokesman for the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), said on Monday (29/6)
that Dokmanovic had been found overnight in his cell after
hanging himself.
The 48-year-old Dokmanovic had been mayor of Vukovar until
fighting erupted between Croats and Serbs in 1991. He was
accused of overseeing the evacuation by Serb forces of more than
200 people, mostly Croats, from Vukovar hospital on November 20,
1991, and organising and participating in their beating and
execution in the nearby town of Ovcara.
At the trial, several witnesses testified that they had seen him
at the massacre site.
Prosecutor Clint Williamson said Dokmanovic took part in the
killings because he wanted to take revenge on Croats who had
deposed him as mayor, and to prove himself to extremist Serbs
who had criticised him for being too moderate.
SHOWS:
VARIOUS FILE
THE HAGUE 7/97
Exterior of tribunal building,
interior tribunal with Dokmanovic seated, Judge asks, How do you plead to count one?,
MS of Dokmanovic replying, Not guilty,
Judge: How do you plead to count six?,
MS Dokmanovic replies, Not guilty.;
VUKOVAR, EASTERN SLAVONIA 11/95
GVs of town,
SOT Dokmanovich, Wishing to solve this in a peaceful way, we gave up the idea of being half of Yugoslavia.;
VS of Vukovar memorial ceremony with Dokmanovich laying wreath,
MS of gun salute to victims.
EASTERN SLAVONIA 01/98
GVs of mass grave site with graves being dug up and bodies exhumed,
MS coffin being opened,
VS CUs of contents of graves,
CU man watching,
CU man holding skull,
VS bodies being carried away.
2.23
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Vukovar - Muzej vučedolske kulture 2017. / Vukovar - Vučedol Culture Museum 2017. (Croatia)
Spomen dom Hrvatskih Branitelja - Vukovar - Horvátország - Groblje tenkova - Spomenik Blago Zadro
Spomen dom Hrvatskih Branitelja - Vukovar -Croatia
4:3 Preview of war crimes trial of Serbian Radicals founder Seselj
(14 Mar 2012) ++16:9++
Vukovar cemetery, Croatia - 13 March 2012
1. Close of catholic crosses, unnamed graves at the cemetery in Vukovar
2. Wide of Ivan Lukic, prison camp survivor, and friend Violeta Grdic walking past the graves
++16:9++
Ovcara, Vukovar, Croatia - 13 March 2012
3. Mid of memorial with Lukic and friend paying respects at the Ovcara massacre site
4. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Ivan Lukic, prison camp survivor:
Every day, when they ('White Eagles' paramilitary unit) came to the prison camp, it meant there would be trouble. You will either live or die. They were lords of life and death. Every day beatings. Sick dogs licking us. Gun barrels turned to our heads. Waking up hearing singing of offensive songs. All together, a treatment that a human cannot understand.
++4:3++
FILE: Vukovar, Croatia - November 1991 ++MUTE AT SOURCE++
5. Vojislav Seselj, wearing uniform and helmet, walks on the destroyed streets of Vukovar, accompanied by Serb soldiers
6. Reverse of Serb soldiers shooting around a corner
++4:3++
FILE: Sokolac, Bosnia - May 6th 1991 ++MUTE AT SOURCE++
7. Zoom in to Vojislav Seselj with Serb radicals at a gathering in the woods in Sokolac
8. Wide of Serb radical shooting in the air, as Radovan Karadzic (former Bosnian President, now also detained in The Hague accused of war crimes) is lifted up by supporters
9. Wide Serb radicals
10. Wide Vojislav Seselj accompanied with Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Vojo Maksimovic
++4:3++
FILE: Vukovar, Croatia, September 1991
11. Wide Yugoslav army tanks lined up in the road
12. Mid Yugoslav army soldiers on top of tank in the traffic
13. Mid Yugoslav army soldiers on top of tank entering Vukovar
++4:3++
Vukovar - 25 November 1991
14. Close of damaged truck, pull out to wide of Vukovar hospital after it was taken over by Serb forces
15. Mid of ambulances outside the hospital where 500 sick and wounded were trapped during the Serb forces' advance
16. Mid of Serb soldier at the window of Vukovar hospital
17. Wide of the destroyed Vukovar town hall
++4:3++
FILE: Vukovar, Croatia, 18th November 1995
18. Various of damaged houses in Vukovar
19. Reverse of priest conducting ceremony at Vukovar cemetery
20. Various of attendees
21. Close of child weeping
22. Wide of relatives at graveside
++16:9++
Memici cemetery, near Zvornik, Bosnia - 13 March 2012
23. Wide Muslim graves
24. Wide Hajrudin Okanovic, whose father was kidnapped by the 'White Eagles' and Muharem Sinanovic, one of the first people at the site after the White Eagles paramilitary group had massacred local muslims in late 1992, walk past the graves of the muslims from Zvornik
25. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Muharem Sinanovic, local resident:
She was all black. I don't know what exactly they did to her. But we found also few of them alive, and they were burnt by burning plastic cans. There were rapes and killings. One man was found crucified like Jesus Christ. We found him in the toilet. Simply, for common sense, this was unthinkable.
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Belgrade, Serbia - 13 March 2012
26. Mid of the posters reading We don't want to join EU and Serbia doesn't want to join EU, Serbia wants Seselj.
27. Close of Seselj's face on poster
28. Close of signage at Serbian Radical Party HQ in Belgrade
29. Wide of Dejan Mirovic, member of Vojislav Seselj's legal team talking on the phone in his office
30. Cutaway Vojislav Seselj card reading (Serbian) Return of the Serbian hero on Mirovic's desk
31. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Dejan Mirovic, member of Vojislav Seselj's legal team:
32. Wide of people walking in the park
33. SOUNDBITE (Serbian), Svetlana Djordjevic, resident:
Freedom, this is all I wish him. I hope he will win and will be free.
34. Cutaway people in the park
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3LHD Memorial Bridge Rijeka documentary
The Memorial Bridge is a spatial intervention and an urban public object, a construction with tactile properties and a symbolic object. It is a pedestrian bridge that embodies the utilitarian function and a memory of the Croatian war of Independence veterans, a place of memory and piety, but also a social gathering and socializing spot. It is located in the center of Rijeka, on the channel which separates the historic city center from the former port, at one of the most potent sites for future construction (it is currently occupied by a parking lot, in the future it will become a park).
The bridge is designed as an extremely thin plate (65cm) connecting the two banks of the channel in a characteristic L-shape, it extends across the channel and ends with a monumental vertical accent. The definition of the public space was achieved only through the structure of the bridge itself, which at the same time must be recognized as a memorial object.
A four year long research resulted in the construction specially designed and manufactured exclusively for this project. Each part of the bridge was an industrially designed and manufactured product that was assembled on site. The 150 tons heavy steel bridge structure was produced in a local shipyard, and carried by sea in one piece on a specially designed barge to the location. As the Memorial Bridge had to pass under two existing bridges on its way to the site, the barge was designed so that it can sink at the time of lowest water levels and go under the existing bridges with its burden.
This urban public hybrid has changed the vista of the city (in the material as well as mental sense) and has achieved its goal of being a Memorial Bridge.
Bodies of massacre victims on journey to final resting place
(9 Jul 2010) SHOTLIST
Visoko - 9 July 2010
1. Wide of people attending prayer ceremony in front of coffins of Srebrenica victims
2. Close-up of people at ceremony
3. Wide women and child in front of truck with coffins
4. Close-up coffins in truck
5. Man praying in front of truck with coffins
6. Man praying, truck with coffins in distance
7. Close woman crying
8. Wide of people at ceremony
9. Close-up woman praying
10. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Ajsa Mustabasic, whose two sons were killed in Srebrenica
This is so hard for us. We are burying our brothers and fathers, it is so hard.
FILE: Srebrenica, Bosnia - 12 July 1995
10. Mid shot of Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic talking to Muslims (this was the moment Mladic assured them that they would be safe and that nothing would happen to them)
11. Various of woman and children boarding buses
FILE: Cerska, near Srebrenica, Bosnia - 11 July 1996
12. Wide shot of mass graves
13. Mid shot of men digging
14. Close up of skulls
15. Close up of boots
16. Close up of forensic investigator, with skull in background
17. Wide shot of skulls on grave site
Visoko - 9 July 2010
18. Mid of Catholic priest in front of coffin of Catholic Bosnian Croat
19. Wide Catholic priest and Muslim imams at prayer ceremony
20. Women crying
21. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Selveta Alibasic, Srebrenica survivor
We have to pray to keep our common sense. We have to live our lives knowing what happened here.
21. Various of trucks departing as friends and relatives look on
STORYLINE
Thousands of people in Bosnia on Friday paid their last respects to the bodies of 776 victims of the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica, on the 15th anniversary of Europe's worst massacre since World War II, ahead of their final burial at a memorial centre near Srebrenica this Sunday.
Families, friends and religious leaders said prayers for the victims at the sombre farewell ceremony at the morgue in Visoko, in central Bosnia.
The bodies of 775 Bosnian Muslims and one Catholic Bosnian Croat are to buried during a mass funeral at a cemetery near Srebrenica as the nation marks the anniversary of the massacre, which occurred at the tail end of 1992-95 Bosnian war.
The remains were all recently exhumed from mass graves around Srebrenica.
This is so hard for us. We are burying our brothers and fathers, it is so hard, said Ajsa Mustabasic, whose two sons were killed during the massacre in July 1995.
Srebrenica was besieged by Serb forces throughout the war.
It had been declared by a safe zone by the United Nations and a number Bosnians had flocked there for protection.
But in July 1995, Serb troops led by General Ratko Mladic overran the enclave.
The outnumbered UN troops never fired a shot.
They watched as Mladic's troops rounded up the population of Srebrenica and took the men away for execution.
It has been described by former Secretary-General Kofi Annan as the darkest page in UN history.
Their bodies were dumped in a number of mass graves.
After the end of the war and following international pressure to investigate and punish Bosnia's wartime atrocities, Serbs dug up some of the bodies and scattered them in other mass graves.
Every year, more victims' bodies are recovered from mass graves found in the area, identified through DNA analysis, and reburied.
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MJESTO SJEĆANJA - Vukovarska bolnica ( PLACEMENT OF PLACES - Vukovar hospital )
Moj mali video doprinos u znak sjećanja na jedno povijesno mjesto iz Domovinskog rata, Vukovarske bolnice.
U Domovinskom ratu bio sam učesnik u tri proboja da se pokuša ući u opkoljeni Vukovar. Krajem listopada i do polovice studenoga većinu vremena proveli smo na bojišnici u Nuštru. Cijelo to vrijeme nekako najviše se spominjala vukovarska bolnica, kukuruzni put, silos, vodotoranj, Mitnica, Trpinjska cesta itd. Prvi put nakon rata u Vukovar sam došao 2013.g. a zadnji put 2018. i tad sam obišao sve što se može obići u jednom danu. I nekako opet me se najviše dojmila posjeta vukovarskoj bolnici. Prilikom obilaska tih prostorija u glavi mi se stvorila ideja da malo sve to posnimam i fotografiram i pokušam napraviti neki filmić kao neki znak sjećanja da se NE ZABORAVI. Kompleta fotografski i video materijal snimio sam sa mobitelom Samsung S8, a sve kasnije smontirao u svojem malom kućnom studiju. Film je malo mračan i pun sjena s kojima sam htio što više dočaratii stvarno stanje iz tog vremena.
In English -
My little video contribution in memory of a historic place from the Homeland War, Vukovar hospital.
In the Homeland War I was a participant in three attempts to try and enter the enclosed Vukovar. At the end of October and half of November most of the time we spent on the battlefield in Nuštar. All this time somehow the most mentioned were the Vukovar Hospital, Corn Road, Silo, Water Tower, Mitnica, Trpinjska cesta, etc. The first time after the war in Vukovar I arrived in 2013. and last time in 2018, and then I've gone all the way to one day. And somehow I was impressed with the visit again Vukovar hospital. When I visited these rooms in the head, I had the idea to do a little bit of stuff and photograph and try to make a movie as some sign of memory that I DO NOT FORGIVE. I made a complete set of photographic and video material with the Samsung S8 mobile phone and later downloaded it in my small home studio. The film is a bit dark and full of shadows with which I wanted to spoil the actual condition of that time.
Author of the film Srećko Kavka
Spomen dom Ovčara, Vukovar.wmv
Spomen dom Ovčara
Spomen dom Ovčara, Neponovilo se više. Bog i Hrvati!
Ovčara, neispričana priča (2016)
Dokumentarni film Ovčara neispričana priča u kojem se četvrt stoljeća nakon tog zločina nad hrvatskim zarobljenicima prvi put dubinski govori što se zaista događalo u ratnom Vukovaru.
U hangaru na Poljoprivrednom dobru Ovčari, u koji su nakon sloma obrane grada Vukovara mučeni zarobljeni hrvatski branitelji i civili od kojih je 200 ubijeno na obližnjoj njivi 20. studenoga 1991.
Ovčara 10 epizoda.
VUKOVAR-OVČARA,,-VAMA U gradu gradu boli, trpnje, jaza, čemera i tuge čuje se kao iz daljine promukli lavež pasa. Isprepleten sa cikom ,vriskom ljudskog glasa Vjetar koda boju krvi nosi.
Povijest Hrvata - Tv kalendar Never forget Vukovar.