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	HU OSA 377-0-1
Fonds 377:	Collection of David Rohde relating to Srebrenica
Series 1:	Subject Files

Date(s) 1991-1999 (1995-1996)

Extent and medium 10 Archival boxes, 1 linear meters

Scope and content

Materials in this series include press clippings and briefings, news agency releases, memos, reports, transcripts of trials and eyewitness accounts, correspondence, manuscripts and copies of photographs.

These are background materials pertaining to the fall of Srebrenica collected by the journalist David Rohde, who, covering the war in Bosnia for the Christian Science Monitor, was the first Western journalist to visit - without the permission of the Bosnian Serb Army (BSA) - and report on the sites where thousands of Muslims were massacred when the Serbs took control of the UN-protected 'safe area’.

Declassified US Government and State Department documents, confidential UN and NATO communications, encompassing reports from other governmental and also non-governmental human rights organizations, as well as an extensive media coverage in various languages give an overall insight on how the events unfolded and what was the role of the major 'participants’ previous to, during and after “the fall and betrayal" of Srebrenica in July 1995.

Accruals Not expected

Conditions governing access

Requests to access these documents are to be approved directly by the Donor on a case-by-case basis.

Language/scripts of material

Bosnian, Dutch, English, French, German, Serbo-Croatian (Principally English)

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Generally good physical condition, but some fax messages, photocopies and manuscripts are frail and hardly legible.

Finding aids

• 10 containers
• Related OSA Reference Information Paper available. (RIP 9: Human rights)

Related materials

• The Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, Amsterdam

Related units of description

• HU OSA 304 Records of the International Human Rights Law Institute Relating to the Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia (IHRLI), 1973-1994

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed and described by Csaba Szilagyi in November 2003
Online version updated 17 November 2009