SERBIA WEBSITE POSTS VIDEO OF 1995 MURDER OF
SERB POWS BY CROATIAN PARAMILITARY
BBC Monitoring International Reports - August 4, 2006 Friday
Excerpt from report by Belgrade-based Radio B92 on 4 August
Belgrade, Zagreb, Banja Luka, 4 August: The 11th anniversary of Croatia's
military Operation Storm was marked with a commemoration in St Mark's Church and
a gathering in Nikola Pasic Square [in central Belgrade] today.
Following the commemoration, a protest walk from St Mark's Church to Nikola
Pasic Square was organized by the Association of Families of Missing Persons
from Krajina [part of Croatia formerly with Serb majority]. A resolution was
read out in Nikola Pasic Square to several hundred Serbs from Croatia and the
families of those killed and missing in the Croatian army operation, demanding
that "Croatian officials - for the sake of peace, reconciliation and a shared
life - reveal the truth about 'Storm' in which genocide against the Serb people
was carried out. This should be done".
B92 has acquired a video recording compiled by the Hague prosecution showing the
events on 7-8 August 1995. The video shows how members of the "Black Mamba"
Croatian paramilitary unit and "Hamza" platoon of the Bosnia-Hercegovina Army
settled scores with Serb soldiers but also civilians who were leaving Krajina.
The participation of the latter in Operation Storm is less well known. This tape
of war crimes was made with an amateur camera and those who taped it are the
participants themselves.
The video recording contains a scene of the murder of an ethnic Serb who
surrendered and was sitting on the ground with his hands up, the torching of
houses of the exiled population from an area extending from Glina to Dvor na Uni
and the abuse of elderly persons, refugees from the intercepted column.
Download video at:
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/documents/oluja.rm
[33 MB RealVideo File]
Source: Radio B92, Belgrade, in Serbian 1511 gmt
4 Aug 06
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