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Documents in this series were digitized and posted in the Digital Repository in the summer of 2021. By separate agreements and consent from the donor, copies of the digitized files were placed at the Srebrenica Memorial Center Archive in Potocari, and the History Museum in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in the same year.

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.

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Third party rights are to be cleared.

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

Initially arranged and described by Csaba Szilagyi in 2005. Additional material processed, rearranged and description revised by Csaba Szilagyi and students of the Archives and Evidentiary Practices Specialization: Vlad Moghiorosi, Stephen Westlake, Niklas Wittmann, Erzsebet Arvay, Stephanie Haszczyn, Yana Kitaeva and Mariia Zimina in 2017-2018 and 2020.

Processed by Csaba Szilagyi, Vlad Moghiorosi, Stephen Westlake, Niklas Wittmann, Erzsebet Arvay, Stephanie Haszczyn, Yana Kitaeva and Mariia Zimina, 2005-2020.