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(2 Feb 1996) Natural Sound

Muslim women from Srebrenica have attempted to storm a government building in Tuzla.

The women repeated earlier demands to know what has happened to their missing families.

At the same time, a delegation of women from Srebrenica has arrived in the capital, Sarajevo, to speak to top government officials about the missing men.

The Bosnian government estimates around 8-thousand people disappeared after Srebrenica, a U-N safe-haven, fell to the Bosnian Serbs last summer.

Thousands of refugee women from Srebrenica continued their demonstrations in front of a local government building in Tuzla on Friday.

They are repeating demands to know what has happened to their missing families who disappeared when Serb forces overran Srebrenica last July.

The women are angry with the Bosnian government for giving in to an American demand that the issue of Srebrenica's missing people does not stand in the way of prisoner-of-war releases.

They blocked two main roads and threatened to destroy cars with stones.

Police reinforcements were gathering around the government building when the women attempted to storm it.

Unable to enter the building, the women managed to throw stones through the windows.

A delegation of more than 50 of these women left Tuzla for Sarajevo on Friday morning and arrived at the Presidential building in the afternoon.

They are due to speak with top government officials.

If their demands are not met they are threatening to travel on to Srebrenica and search for the graves themselves.

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