3.3. July 7th, 1995 | Srebrenica - July 6th-19th, 1995

3.3.

July 7th, 1995

BSA Offensive on the Safe Zone

Meeting in Belgrade

European envoy Carl Bildt, Serbia President Slobodan Milosevic, BSA General Ratko Mladic

Carl Bildt urged the Bosnian Serbs to refrain from military actions in order to give the political negotiations a chance.

UN report

Srebrenica: The Dutch battalion commander speaking to his superior at UNPROFOR in Tuzla

The Bosnian Serb Army had been shelling populated civilian areas of Srebrenica, and openly and deliberately attacking UNPROFOR and ARBiH positions.


The International Community and Srebrenica

Also, in 2001, a report of the French Parliamentary Investigating Commission, which examined the events in Srebrenica, says that states, especially the major powers in 1995, made a choice, and I quote, 'to simplify diplomatic negotiations by clarifying the ethnic map of Bosnia and Herzegovina'. The French report then concludes: ‘None of the countries involved in resolving the Bosnian conflict wanted to save Srebrenica, which does not imply the existence of a conspiracy'.“

  • Florence Hartmann, Author and Independent Researcher