SREBRENICA MADNESS 47SECRETDATE: 19 JULY 1995 2347 ZULU
TO: IMMEDIATE DIRECTOR.
CITE: SARAJEVO 1813
WNINTEL INTEL 00TRIBE
SUBJECT: SITREP—MASSACRE AT SREBRENICA
REFS: A. DIRECTOR 74598
B. SARAJEVO 1812
- ON 8 JULY, FOLLOWING THREE-HOUR SDR TO CONFIRM NO
SURVEILLANCE, COS CLARKE DROVE STERILE OPS VEHICLE FROM
SARAJEVO TO SREBRENICA, TO COVER ANTICIPATED BOSNIAN
SERB ARMY (BSA) ATTACK ON THE U.N.-DECLARED “SAFE HAVEN.”
COS WAS ON THE GROUND IN SREBRENICA FROM 8–18 JULY 1995,
UNDER IRISH PHOTOJOURNALIST COVER. COS OBSERVED EVENTS
DESCRIBED BELOW, OR OBTAINED INFO FROM U.N., BOSNIAN SERB
AND BOSNIAN MUSLIM SOLDIERS, EYEWITNESSES AND SURVIVORS.
COS RETURNED SAFELY TO SARAJEVO ON 18 JULY BY INSERTING
HIS VEHICLE INTO MILE-LONG CONVOY OF RETREATING DUTCH
U.N. SOLDIERS. - FOLLOWING IS TEAR LINE REPORT ON FALL OF SREBRENICA.
-----------------------TEAR LINE------------------------ ON 8 JULY 1995, BOSNIAN SERB ARMY (BSA) GEN. RATKO
MLADIC BEGAN FINAL ASSAULT ON U.N. SAFE HAVEN OF SRE-
BRENICA, WITH MORTAR, ROCKET, AND ARTILLERY ATTACKS
AGAINST THE REFUGEES. ON 10 JULY, BSA FORCES OVERRAN
SEVERAL U.N. POSTS SURROUNDING THE ENCLAVE, AND TOOK
HOSTAGE SEVERAL DOZEN DUTCH U.N. SOLDIERS. NATO BOMBED
ONE BSA TANK, AFTER WHICH GEN. MLADIC IMMEDIATELY THREAT-
ENED TO KILL ALL U.N. HOSTAGES. ACCORDING TO A DUTCH U.N.