6.3.
July 19th, 1995
Mass Graves
UNPROFOR – BSA
Meeting at the Restaurant “Jela“ in Han Pijesak
The UNPROFOR Commander and General Mladic
The UNPROFOR Commander said how essential it was that the International Committee of the Red Cross be granted immediate access to the men being detained, and that freedom of movement to the enclaves be restored for UNPROFOR and UNHCR.
Throughout the meeting, he maintained contact with Carl Bildt, who was holding parallel negotiations with President Milosevic in Belgrade.
Executions
Small groups of Bosnian Muslim men trying to escape the enclave were killed on location after capture by the Bosnian Serb forces.
Reconstruction: Establishing the facts about the executions
“Nevertheless, at the end of September and the beginning of October, a massive process, as massive as the killing process itself, started in order to take out most of the bodies from the mass graves with the intent to hide them in valleys that were stuffed with landmines, leaving inside the primary graves just a few bodies, in order to, in case we would find them, make us believe that, if witnesses said the truth, they were tremendously exaggerating the numbers.“
- Jean-René Ruez, Chief Superintendent at the French National Police, former Head of the Hague Tribunal Investigative Team for Srebrenica