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...remove women and children from the area - the Serbs had begun assembling Muslim men aged 12 to 77 for interrogation, and the mass executions began the next day - the same day as the peacekeepers handed over some 5,000 Muslims who'd been sheltering at the Dutch base at Potocari, in exchange for the release of 14 peacekeeping troops. The Dutch left the following day, after negotiating their way out - and leaving behind their weapons as part of the deal...
...buses that carried 6,000 to 7,000 Bosnian men, including young boys of 14 and 15 years, had a different destination. They travelled ten or twenty miles to the nearby town of Potocari. There, away from the prying eyes of international aid workers, they were taken out into the fields like herds of cattle, blindfolded, and systematically machine-gunned. Tractors stood by to dig mass graves where the bodies were thrown in, some while they were still alive...
...buses and trucks, the Serbs mounted a full-scale "ethnic cleansing" operation. They packed thousands of Muslim women, children and old men into the vehicles and shuttled them west to territory controlled by the Muslim-dominated Bosnian government. Assembling at the base of a Dutch U.N. battalion in Potocari, a town just north of Srebrenica, Muslim families walked to the buses through protective rows of peacekeepers. But behind the 400 Dutch soldiers stood glowering Bosnian Serb troops. "The most incredible thing was the silence," said a Serb witness. "It was the silence of pure terror." As the Muslims stepped...
...captured bythe Bosnian Serb army. Despite numerous threats,NATO bombing runs, and an attempt by 400 Dutch peacekeepers to protect the city's southern edge, the U.N. could not keep the Serbs at bay. Seeking protection, some 2,000 civilians have assembled at the tiny U.N. outpost at Potocari, north of the city, and the Dutch troops are attempting to regroup around the area. There was no word on the fate of 30 Dutch hostages taken by Serb forces over the weekend. Srebrenica is the first of the six "safe areas" for civilians, which were established...
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