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The Srebrenica Massacre

Srebrenica and the War in Bosnia
Materials in OSA

Fonds 205 Records of the Open Media Research Institute

Subfonds 4 Information Services Department

Series 90 Bosnia Herzegovina Subject Files

HU OSA 205-4-90 Bosnia Herzegovina Subject Files, 1992-1997

Fonds 318 Records of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights

Series 3 Country Files

HU OSA 318-0-3 Country Files, 1988-1999

Fonds 341 Publications of the Human Rights Watch

Series 1 Annual, Country, and Thematic Reports

HU OSA 341-0-1 Annual, Country, and Thematic Reports, 1982-2000

Fonds 377 Collection of David Rohde relating to Srebrenica

HU OSA 377 Collection of David Rohde relating to Srebrenica, 1991-1999

Fonds 386 Records of the Physicians for Human Rights' Bosnia Projects

HU OSA 386 Records of the Physicians for Human Rights' Bosnia Projects, 1996-1999

Fonds 308 Monitoring of Yugoslav Television

Series 1 Analysis and commentary of Yugoslav political events and television programs

Daily news broadcasts, that document everyday political events as portrayed by the governmnet-controlled Serbian media. The programs are approximately 30 minutes in length and include reports of the headlines, world politics, internal politics, economics, culture, sport, weather report and commercials.
Special political programs and reports of Television BK and Television Politika are also included.
Some of the highlights of this acquisition include Slobodan Milosevic's speeches throughout the years, the students protests of 1996-97, the rise of the Kosovo crysis, and the programs aired during the 78-day of NATO bombings in spring 1999, including President Milosevic's announcement of the beginning of the war; and his declaration of "victory".

HU OSA 308-0-1 Analysis and commentary of Yugoslav political events and television programs

Fonds 309 Monitoring of Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Series 2 Off-air recordings of television news and other political programs

Daily news broadcasts, documenting everyday political events as portrayed by the media of the three cantons of Bosnia-Herzegovina: TV BIH, TV Srpska and NTV 99.
The programs are approximately 30 minutes in length and include reports on headline news, world politics, internal politics, economics, culture, sport, weather report and commercials.
Special political programs and reports of Zetel Zenica, Hayat TV and TV IN are also included.
Some of the highlights of this acquisition include an interview with Zoran Dindic, President of the Serbian Democratic Party (July 1996), an interview with Vojislav Seselj, President of the Serb Radical Party (September 1996), speeches by Alija Izetbegovic, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina and programs about post-war reconstruction and the return of refugees.

HU OSA 309-0-2 Off-air recordings of television news and other political programs, 1996-1998

Fonds 310 Monitoring of Croatian Television

Series 2 Off-air recordings of television news and other political programs

Off-air recordings of "Dnevnik" evening news programs (8:30 p.m.) broadcast by the state-controlled Croatian television station HRT1, and the special third edition of "Motrista" news.
The cassettes also contain historical recordings relating to the local governmental elections in 1997; speeches and parades held at President Franjo Tudjman's 75th birthday celebrations, and the Independence Day commemoration ceremony in 1997.

HU OSA 310-0-2 Off-air recordings of television news and other political programs, 1996-1998

Fonds 307 ''VIN'' Programs Broadcast at Studio B Television, Belgrade (Yugoslavia)

Series 2 Television programs ''Weekly Independent News''

Weekly news programs, 73 titles, each approximately 1 hour long. Mainly reports and interviews about Yugoslavia in war, as portrayed by an independent media house - called VIN - of Belgrade.

HU OSA 307-0-2 Television programs ''Weekly Independent News'', 1993-1996

Fonds 304 Records of the International Human Rights Law Institute Relating to the Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia

Series 16 Video recordings relating to the conflict in the former Yugoslavia

252 different news reports, broadcasts, documentary and propaganda films on the war in the former Yugoslavia produced by local and Western media. The films provide special insights into inter-ethnic conflicts and the emergence of hatred amongst the nations of the former Yugoslavia.
Films are from: Austria, Australia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, the United States and the former Yugoslavia.

HU OSA 304-0-16 Video recordings relating to the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, 1990-1995

Fonds 350 Records of the International Monitor Institute

Subfonds 1 Europe

Series 1 'Balkan Archive'

The 'Balkan Archives', the most significant part of the collection, comprises more than 3,000 hours of Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, English, American, German and other Western news programs, television reports, propaganda films and documentaries about the most tragic events of the Balkan Wars in the 1990s. These films have been used as evidence by the Hague Tribunal during its investigations of war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia. At the same time, the Balkan Archives incorporate film of the trial proceedings themselves.

HU OSA 350-1-1 'Balkan Archive', 1990-2001

Fonds 319 Video Recordings of the Proceedings of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

Series 2 Video recordings of the trial proceedings

Includes proceedings of the Tadic trial, consisting of video recordings of all sessions. some recordings relating to the Karadzic, Mladic and Blaskic cases.

HU OSA 319-0-2 Video recordings of the trial proceedings, 1996

OSA Library, Books

Books related to the War in Yugoslavia, 1991-1995

OSA Film Library

A special collection of fiction and documentary films in OSA’s film library.

OSA Film Library Approximately 100 more 'Yugoslav' fiction films will be available for research from September 2005