50 AMERICAN SPY-- A NAKED, BRUISED TEENAGE GIRL BOARDED A BUS, THE
VICTIM OF MULTIPLE RAPES. SHE LATER HANGED HERSELF FROM
A TREE WITH STRIPS OF A BLANKET. ONE FATHER HUNG HIMSELF
RATHER THAN WITNESS WHAT THE SERBS WOULD DO TO HIS THREE
DAUGHTERS.
-- THERE WERE NUMEROUS REPORTS OF SERBS DRAGGING WOMEN
AWAY AND RAPING THEM. ONE YOUNG MOTHER OF THREE WHO
WAS RAPED SAID THAT THIS WAS THE SECOND TIME SERB SOL-
DIERS HAD RAPED HER. THE FIRST TIME THE SERBS RAPED HER
AT BRCKO, IN FRONT OF HER CHILDREN. AFTER RAPING HER
MULTIPLE TIMES, THE SERBS URINATED INTO HER CHILDREN’S
MOUTHS.
[FIELD COMMENT: THE USE OF RAPE AS AN INSTRUMENT OF
TERROR HAS BEEN OFFICIAL POLICY OF BOSNIAN SERB LEADERS
RADOVAN KARADZIC AND MLADIC SINCE THE START OF THE WAR.
BOSNIAN SERBS SET UP “RAPE CENTERS” WHERE SYSTEMATIC
RAPES OF MUSLIM WOMEN TOOK PLACE. THERE ARE REPORTEDLY
THOUSANDS OF YOUNG BOSNIAN WOMEN AND GIRLS NOW SUFFERING
SEVERE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND GYNECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS.]
-- BSA SOLDIERS IN STOLEN U.N. UNIFORMS AND VEHICLES
TRICKED AT LEAST ONE GROUP OF REFUGEES TO COME OUT OF
HIDING IN THE WOODS. THE SOLDIERS THEN LINED UP THE REFU-
GEES AND MACHINE-GUNNED THEM TO DEATH.
-- NEAR THE VILLAGE OF MECES, BSA USED AN EXCAVATOR TO
DIG A LARGE PIT. SERBS ORDERED APPROXIMATELY 260 MUSLIMS
INTO THE PIT AND BURIED THEM ALIVE.
-- THERE WERE SEVERAL UNCONFIRMED REPORTS THAT THE BSA
USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS AGAINST THE REFUGEES, SOME OF WHOM
SAID THE AIR SMELLED OF ROSES AND PEOPLE ACTED AS THOUGH
THEY WERE DRUGGED. [FIELD COMMENT: THE YUGOSLAV ARMY
(JNA) IS KNOWN TO HAVE AN INCAPACITATING AGENT CALLED
“BZ,” WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN USED IN BOSNIA.]