AFTER SREBRENICA [Main Title]

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  • Title: AFTER SREBRENICA [Main Title]
  • Film Number: UNT 763
  • Other titles: UNITED NATIONS TELEVISION (UNTV) ZAGREB COLLECTION, YUGOSLAVIA [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: How is Tuzla coping with the influx of refugees from Srebrenica? How have the refugees adjusted to their new lives?
  • Description: Opening shot shows a vast mass of UNHCR refugee tents and people walking between them. A voiceover explains that “never have so many arrived so quickly”. 29,000 displaced people have arrived in Tuzla in the last couple of weeks. Shots of mothers carrying their babies through the crowds. Interview with individual refugees, telling their story of the last few weeks. One mother says that her daughter kept fainting and is now recovering on a drip. Her daughter describes Serbs, arriving in an UNPROFOR car, taking her outside to assault and rape her. They then put her back on the truck carrying the wounded. She says that Ratko Mladić arrived at 7.30 am and separated in two groups those wounded by mines in 1992-93 and the recently wounded soldiers. Then “they started to beat and molest people with fresh wounds”. An hour later she says that they arrived at a hospital in Kladinj where the refugees were given first aid and then went on to Tuzla. Voiceover: Reports of rape and mass executions are still being investigated but the trauma of thousands is clear to see. Close up on the wrinkled face of an old woman in a headscarf. Shot of the long line of coaches that continue to bring refugees to the camp site. Interview with Šemsudin Hasabegović, Minister in the Tuzla-Podrinje Canton, who says that the refugees are a burden for the government in this area, “more than 350,000 displaced people have passed through this area and 246,000 are still here”. The vast majority have been accommodated in schools or barracks. Shots of people collecting water. Esef Tuholjaković, headmaster of one of the schools, says that more than 730 refugees are presently accommodated in this school and he expects more to arrive. The newest arrivals are shown living inside large shelters in the playground, because there was no space to house them inside the school buildings. Even these external shelters are now full. He says that it is impossible to describe what these people are going through; to look at them is to be on the verge of tears. Interview with Magbula Velić, from Bratunac. She pours coffee for her mother and describes the small room where she and her family are being accommodated. She describes going back to Srebrenica to look for her father and hearing that he had died before she could find him. It then took her three years to make the journey back to Tuzla to be reunited with her children. She explains that they live in a house, which has been loaned by the owner to UNPROFOR, in order to accommodate refugees. Šemsudin Hasabegović explains that Norwegian National Aid helped to complete the construction of half-finished buildings in the area. This is not a long term solution. UNPROFOR agreements with the owners are due to expire in December. He says that, looking forward, UNPROFOR will repair abandoned houses and build new settlements for those refugees coming from Srebrenica. Footage from a Tuzla radio station where broadcasters read out the list of displaced people from Srebrenica looking for their families. Cuts to a man leaning over his radio, making sure he does not miss a single name that could be the person he is looking for. His wife explains that they have not left Tuzla in four years and they are in shock at the number of people arriving from Srebrenica. “We must take our people...Tuzla will survive”. Different faces fade in and out through the broadcaster’s list of names.
  • Alternative Title: UNITED NATIONS TELEVISION (UNTV) ZAGREB COLLECTION, YUGOSLAVIA [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: English (Tape Code A)
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  • Object_Number: UNT 763
  • Sound: Bosnian (Tape Code B)
  • Access Conditions:
  • Featured Period: 1990-2000
  • Production Date: 1995-08 1995-08-09
  • Production Country: UN
  • Production Details: Bramford, Richard (Production individual)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: English (Tape Code A) Sound format: Bosnian (Tape Code B) Soundtrack language: Croatian (Tape Code C) Title language: Serbian (Tape D)
  • Technical Details: Format: Beta-SP Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Running time: 9 mins 34 secs
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    UNT 763

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    UNT 768 (UNTV PROGRAMME NO 108 [Main Title]) UNT 763 X (AFTER SREBRENICA (UNEDITED RUSHES) [Allocated Title])
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