BBC (June 3): Carla Del Ponte seeks Bosnia fugitives

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Dated Friday June 3 07:48 GMT (12:48 am PDT)

Del Ponte seeks Bosnia fugitives

UN chief war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte is in Bosnia-Hercegovina, at the end of a tour of ex-Yugoslavia.

She is expected to renew calls for the arrest of war crimes suspects Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic.

Her visit precedes a report to the UN Security Council on co-operation by Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia and Croatia with the Hague tribunal.

Earlier this week, Serbian TV aired a video apparently showing the murder of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995.

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1. Observer -How video that put Serbia in dock was brought to light

Srebrenica massacre tape has at last forced Belgrade to face up to its war atrocities

Tim Judah in Sarajevo and Daniel Sunter in Belgrade
Sunday June 5, 2005
The Observer

For 10 years they have not slept easy. The casual killers of the six cowed and beaten prisoners from Srebrenica were happy to play to the camera that day in July 1995, high on victory and heroes in the eyes of many fellow Serbs. But, as the years have worn on, that sheen has dimmed and the fear has grown. Did the tape still exist? Who had it? Where was it?

For the first time since the execution video was shown at the UN's war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague on Wednesday, The Observer can reveal the full story of the tape that has rocked not just Serbia and Bosnia, but the whole world.

It is the extraordinary story of how the tape was hidden for more than nine years but then, as its existence was revealed in a trial in Serbia, how a race began between the frightened killers and Serbia's leading human rights activist to find it - to destroy it or get it out to the world.

The tape is also the 'smoking gun', for it is the final, incontrovertible proof of Serbia's part in the Srebrenica massacres in which more than 7,500 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were murdered. Until last week Serbian officials, both from the wartime regime of Slobodan Milosevic and since his fall in 2000, have argued that Serbia was not involved with the massacres. Now, the tape proves that to have been a lie.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1499516,00.html