Identity Statement

Reference Code

HU OSA 377-0-1

Title

Subject Files

Date(s)

1991 - 1999

Description Level

Series

Extent and medium (processed)

11 Archival boxes, 1.38 linear meters

Context

Name of creator(s)

Rohde, David

Content and Structure

Scope and Content (Abstract)

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 of Access and Use

Conditions governing access

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

Languages

Bosnian, Dutch; Flemish, English, French, German, Serbo-Croatian

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

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