SERBIAN RADICALS SCREEN VIDEO SHOWING "ABUSE, KNIFING" BY SREBRENICA MUSLIMS
BBC Monitoring International Reports - June 16, 2005

Text of report by Serbian independent news agency FoNet

Belgrade, 16 June: The Serbian Radical Party (SRS) today screened a ten-minute film recorded during the war in Bosnia, which shows a uniformed solider being abused and apparently "executed and then knifed". The desecration of an Orthodox church, burning of a picture of the former leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Radovan Karadzic, and the funeral of a Serb whose death was allegedly caused by Srebrenica Muslims were also shown.

Referring to the video showing uniformed men who question and beat up a young man, SRS deputy chairman Tomislav Nikolic said that this was about a Serb who was "first executed and then knifed".

After the man is questioned and slapped around the face, the video shows a soldier firing shots from a machine gun, and then a dead body with a mutilated face.

The video also shows, as Nikolic put it, an elderly man, Milan Nenadic, on whom Muslims soldiers had found a picture of Karadzic. Following a clip showing the torching of Karadzic's picture, the video shows a tractor dragging Nenadic's body through a street.

Referring to "savagery on the part of Srebrenica Muslims", Nikolic showed pictures of several decomposing bodies in plastic bags, and statements by relatives claiming that these were local Serbs. One man claims he had recognized his 17-year-old brother among the bodies. An Orthodox priest is then shown holding a funeral service at the burial.

The video shows an address by former Bosnia-Hercegovina President Alija Izetbegovic to the al-Mujahid Unit. Izetbegovic's speech is followed by clips showing the murder of uniformed men in an underground bunker.

A scene in which Muslim soldiers, screaming "Allah is great", destroy icons and fire shots inside an Orthodox church was also shown.

It was said that the video clips were shot near Dvor na Uni, Bosanska Krupa and other places in Bosnia-Hercegovina.

Nikolic said that the film has been in Radio-Television Serbia archives "for 10 years already", and the TV "dares not air it", adding that the SRS had obtained it from citizens.

Responding to journalists' questions, Nikolic said that "if the Hague tribunal is interested, it can contact the SRS for the unedited video material".

Source: FoNet news agency, Belgrade, in Serbian 1313 gmt 16 Jun 05

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