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(17 Jul 1995) Serbo Croat/Eng/French
About two thousand Bosnian soldiers have managed to break out of Srebrenica -and some are now safely behind their own lines a week after the Muslim enclave was captured by the Serbs.
A few of the troops have made it to a refugee camp in Tuzla, where they are desperately trying to find their families.
Weary after their escape through Serbian lines in Srebrenica, these two Bosnian soldiers have arrived at a refugee camp in the safe haven of Tuzla.
During their dangerous and long trek, the men have discarded their uniforms in an effort to make themselves less visible to enemy eyes.
Two of their comrades spoke of their ordeal.
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" We survived because we found some vegetables, some fruit, plants. Whatever we found we ate. We drank all kinds of water. When they were crossing streams, they drank the streams. For four nights they didn't sleep."
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The soldiers now begin the search for their loved ones, walking from tent to tent and asking for any news.
The Serbs say that they plan to recapture the escapees, and claim that they killed six people on Sunday as they fled for their lives.
Reports from those women, elderly people and children who have been allowed to leave, indicate that the situation for the thousands of men missing since the fall of Srebrenica is far worse.
They talk of soldiers being rounded up and killed, their bodies lying on the sides of the roads.
These men have escaped that horror, but it may only be a matter of time before mothers and sons are again separated.

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