VELIKA KLADUSA SPECIAL REPORT [Main Title]

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  • Title: VELIKA KLADUSA SPECIAL REPORT [Main Title]
  • Film Number: UNT 438
  • Other titles: BIHAC INVESTIGATION [Alternative Title] UNITED NATIONS TELEVISION (UNTV) ZAGREB COLLECTION, YUGOSLAVIA [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Fifteen thousand refugees in a perilous situation on the Croatian border were afraid to go back to their homes in the Bihac region. UNTV investigates: was it safe for the refugees to return? Martina Balazova interviews residents of the Velika Kladusa area.
  • Description: Martina Balazova, standing in front of the Agrokomerc building, reports on the situation in Velika Kladuša. Panning shots of central streets. It appears as though the Bosnian 5th Corps have established peace on the streets allowing residents to continue their lives in peace. Interview with a man called Sali Kudić who exhorts his children to come back to the city. He says that there are no killings or burnings, that rumours of such things are untrue. Interview with a mother who decided to stay, she says that the rest of her family left because they were scared of rumours that the Bosnian Fifth Corps were killing people here. She says that none of these rumours are true. Balazova reports that the Bosnian Fifth Corps has not carried out any retributive attacks against Abdić’s former employees or soldiers. Interview with an employee of Agrokomerc who says that there have not been any problems for him because of his former employment. The same is true for a former soldier who says that the amnesty for Abdić’s soldiers has been honoured. Interview with General Dudaković, Commander of the Fifth Corps of the Bosnian Army, who confirms that those who return will retain full rights to live as they did before. Talks have been held between General Dudaković and Peter Galbraith, the U.S Ambassador to Croatia, at which the men agreed that those in the refugee camp are encouraged to return and resume their normal lives, exempt from military service for the next six months. Sergio Vieira de Mello, UNPROFOR Head of Civil Affairs, says that refugees will be free to visit Velika Kladuša, immune from arrest and prosecution, so that they can see what the situation is like for themselves. UNTV visited three villages in the surrounding area to see if life there was returning to normal. In Glavica, one old man says that reports of atrocities committed by the Bosnian Fifth Corps are unfounded. In Podzvizd, the situation is difficult because too few men remain to work the land and houses have been robbed by Bosnian troops passing through. Again, though, they urge people to return. UNTV concludes from their assessment of Velika Kladuša that the area is safe for refugees to return.
  • Alternative Title: BIHAC INVESTIGATION [Alternative Title] UNITED NATIONS TELEVISION (UNTV) ZAGREB COLLECTION, YUGOSLAVIA [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: Croatian (Tape Code C)
  • Digitised:
  • Object_Number: UNT 438
  • Sound: Serbian (Tape D)
  • Access Conditions:
  • Featured Period: 1990-2000
  • Production Date: 1994-08 1994-08-31
  • Production Country: UN
  • Production Details: Balazova, Martina (Production individual) Bushill, Christian (Production individual) Warner, Simon (Production individual) MacCormick, Niall (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: de Mello, Sergio Vieira (person)
  • Keywords: Bosnia-Herzegovina & Velika Kladusa (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Croatian (Tape Code C) Sound format: Serbian (Tape D)
  • Technical Details: Format: Beta-SP Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Running time: 9 mins 55 secs
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    UNT 438

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    UNT 439 (UNTV PROGRAMME NO 10 [Main Title]) UNT 438 X (VELIKA KLADUSA SPECIAL REPORT (UNEDITED RUSHES) [Allocated Title]) UNT 494 (UN IN CROATIA AND BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA [Main Title])
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