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This report by The Times’ long-standing and much respected defence correspondent gives the lie to the ICTY claim that the attack on Srebrenica was a carefully planned operation to inflict a genocide. There were more than 6,000 well-armed soldiers of the Bosnian Muslim Army (ABiH) in Srebrenica up until the day before it fell. \u00a0The Bosnian Serb force, by contrast, was potentially outnumbered by 25:1, was short of fuel and ammunition and was exhausted by policing a front line many hundreds of miles long.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Times, 14 July 1995<\/p>\n

Muslim soldiers ‘failed to defend town from Serbs’<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Michael Evans,\u00a0 <\/span>Defence Correspondent<\/p>\n

THE Muslim defenders of Srebrenica put up only a brief fight against theSerbs, and their commanders left the night before the Serb tanks entered\u00a0the town, according to Western intelligence sources yesterday.<\/p>\n

The abandonment of Srebrenica to a relatively small Serb advancing force\u00a0caused surprise in the West, especially after the largely Muslim\u00a0government army had demonstrated considerable infantry skills in recent\u00a0attacks..<\/p>\n

There were reports that up to 1,500 Serbs were involved in the assaulton Srebrenica, but intelligence sources estimated the main attack wascarried out by a force of about 200, with five tanks.\u00a0 <\/span>“It was a pretty\u00a0low-level operation, but for some reason which we can’t understand the\u00a0BiH (government) soldiers didn’t put up much of a fight,” one source\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

Srebrenica was officially demilitarised on April 17, 1993, but thegovernment soldiers were not short of weapons.\u00a0 <\/span>Before the Serb advance\u00a0on the town, the Muslims had been shelling Serb units along the main\u00a0road to the south.\u00a0 <\/span>The intelligence sources said it was that harassment\u00a0which precipitated the Serb attack on the 1,500 Muslim defenders inside\u00a0the enclave.<\/p>\n

However, the advance into the town was seen by intelligence assessors asan opportunist move.\u00a0 <\/span>“I don’t think the Serbs had predicted the timingof this operation,” one source said.\u00a0 <\/span>The apparent decision by the\u00a0Muslims to abandon the town provided the Serbs with a sudden opportunityto occupy Srebrenica, bypassing the Dutch on the road a mile south ofthe town.<\/p>\n

The intelligence source said:\u00a0 <\/span>“The BiH just melted away from Srebrenicaand the senior officers left the night before.”\u00a0 <\/span>The source said theMuslim defenders were “adequately armed” for street-fighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This report by The Times’ long-standing and much respected defence correspondent gives the lie to the ICTY claim that the attack on Srebrenica was a carefully planned operation to inflict a genocide. There were more than 6,000 well-armed soldiers of the Bosnian Muslim Army (ABiH) in Srebrenica up until the day before it fell. \u00a0The … <\/p>\n

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