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(15 Jul 1995) Serbo-Croat/Nat

U-N aid workers are said to be starting to cope with the massive influx of refugees into Tuzla from Srebrenica.

But the people forced out of their homes by the Bosnian Serbs continue to blame the U-N for their plight.

The U-N failure to protect Srebrenica has infuriated the Bosnian government.

Now the people who were thrown out of the enclave by the Bosnian Serbs are criticising the U-N. as well.

Thousands of men and male teenagers from Srebrenica have been seized by the Serbs and taken to unknown locations.

Some of the 15-thousand refugees now living in and around Tuzla are beginning to talk about what happened when the Serbs chased them out of their homes.

Some refugees said they had seen men lying by the side of the road, or being led away by Serb soldiers, or being shot. Others told of women being dragged away, raped and hung, and young boys being plucked from buses.

SOUNDBITE Serbo-Croat:
"We were harassed on the bus. They asked us for deutschmarks. They told us they shouldn't expel us. what they said they should do is skin us alive. They said they should cut all of our throats."

SUPERCAPTION: Mcira Cekanovic. refugee

Their stories could not be immediately confirmed. The refugees are becoming as furious at the U.N. as the Bosnian government.

VOXPOPS with refugees in Serbo-Croat:

"When you talk about Srebrenica, we were betrayed and sold out by UNPROFOR."

"In Srebrenica, the U.N. was not helpful. I wouldn't trust the U.N."

The refugees now hope that the Bosnian army in Tuzla are better prepared to withstand a Serb onslaught than the lightly armed government defenders of Srebrenica, or the U-N peacekeepers.

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