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(21 Oct 1995) Natural Sound

Three months after the fall of the Srebrenica "safe haven" in eastern Bosnia to Bosnian Serb forces, the authorities are trying to repopulate the ghost-town with Bosnian Serb refugees from the northwest of the country.

The Muslim enclave was overrun by the Bosnian Serb Army in July and most of the survivors fled to Tuzla. As many as eight-thousand are still unaccounted for.

APTV has obtained the first pictures out of Srebrenica since the Serb takeover.

The ghost-town of Srebrenica still carries the scars of the Bosnian Serb shells.

Of the enclave's 40-thousand onetime inhabitants, some eight thousand are still missing.

The U-S has accused the Bosnian Serbs of massacring up to two-thousand-700 of them.

Later estimates by the U-N and other witnesses put the death toll at four thousand, which would make it Europe's largest civilian massacre since the Second World War.

Local Serb authorities now plan to clean-up the town, and repopulate it with Bosnian Serbs who've fled the fighting in the Banja Luka region.

While the town's being cleared up, these refugees are living in prefabricated wooden shacks donated by the U-N-H-C-R and -- ironically -- previously used by Muslim refugees living in the enclave.

The Bosnian Serbs marched into the "safe area" of Srebrenica in July prompting a massive exodus of Muslim refugees to neighbouring Tuzla. The United States has accused Bosnian Serbs of the massacre of almost 3,000 Muslim inhabitants of Srebrenica. Of Srebrenica's 40 thousand inhabitants almost 8 thousand are still missing.

Three months after the fall of Srebrenica haunting questions linger about what the United Nations did or did not do to protect thousands of Muslims there.

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