5.3.
July 15th, 1995
Executions
Executions
Petkovci
Some time after midnight on July 15th, the Bosnian Serb Army loaded prisoners who had been detained in the “new” school in Petkovci onto trucks and drove them to Petkovci dam, where they were then executed. The Bosnian Serb Army lined up and shot prisoners in groups of 5 to 10 men. After the firing stopped, the only two survivors crawled out of the pile of bodies to a hiding spot.
Orahovac
Burial
On the morning of July 15th work began on mass burials in the fields of Orahovac and near the dam in Petkovci, where the killings had been carried out.
Meeting in Belgrade
BSA General Mladic - UNPROFOR agreement
EU envoy, The Co-Chair of the International Conference for Yugoslavia, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and the Force Commander Carl Bildt briefed the gathering on the results of his meeting with Milosevic and Mladic the previous day. Aware of reports that grave human rights abuses might have been committed against the men and boys of Srebrenica, but unaware that mass and systematic executions had commenced, the senior international officials and Milosevic were joined by Mladic for a largely ceremonial meeting over lunch. This was followed by a meeting between the UN Commander in Bosnia and Mladic to finalize the details.