This Dutch documentary about Srebrenica was created in 2002, around the time the NIOD Report came into being, although there are no indications of a link between the two. The documentary is a Dutch television production put together relatively few years after the event and apparently before the rigid official narrative with its intimidating guidelines was formally established. The authors have clearly made an effort to be fair and balanced in the facts they have put forward and video images  they have selected. Since briefly appearing in the period immediately following its inception, the documentary was largely swept under the rug. The version circulating nowadays appears to have been edited to remove information about its makers, one may assume because of political pressure that was brought to bear upon them. But no matter, while we regret not being able to attribute it properly, since it is a compilation of visual materials the documentary speaks for itself and stands or falls on its own merits.

 

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