“Here we are, on July 11, in Serbian Srebrenica, just before a great Serb holy day. We give this town to the Serb nation. Remember the uprising against the Turks. The time has come to take revenge against the Muslims.”

 

 

General Ratko Mladic, the Commander of the Main Staff of the Bosnian Serb army (VRS), to a Serbian television crew, which accompanied him to film the Bosnian Serb capture of Srebrenica on July 11, 1995. This segment was featured in the 1999 BBC documentary, “Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave.” For more information on this documentary, which was shown on PBS, see www.pbs.org. On November 14, 1995, the ICTY indicted Mladic for his role in the Srebrenica massacre. The current (amended) October 11, 2002 indictment charges Mladic with genocide, crimes against humanity, and violations of the laws or customs of war. Mladic remains free despite repeated demands for his arrest.

For the ICTY indictment of Ratko Mladic, see: www.un.org/icty, “ICTY Cases and Judgements,” Mladic, Ratko.