BOSNIA: REFUGEES FROM SARAJEVAN SUBURBS MOVE TO SREBENICA

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  • (14 Mar 1996) Serbo-Croat/Nat
    Some refugees from the former Serb suburbs in Sarajevo, now under the control of the Muslim-Croat Federation, have moved - Thursday - into the former U-N safe haven of Srebrenica.
    Most are finding life difficult and appear to be getting little help from the Bosnian Serb authorities.
    Srebrenica is a former United Nations safe haven.It fell in July 1995 and around 7,000 Muslims are believed to have been killed by Serb troops.
    Now there is a new wave of refugees - Serbs from Sarajevan suburbs, recently transferred to Bosnian Federation control.
    Most of the refugees are finding it difficult to adjust and are getting very little help from the Bosnian Serb authorities.
    SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat)
    I'm wanting that someone will help us if they can. If they cannot help us what can I do?
    SUPER CAPTION: Radivoje Palic, from Ilijas
    Some of these people have taken over the houses of Muslims who have fled, or disappeared.
    Others have been allocated apartments, especially those who served in the army or who have lost family in the army.
    One man from Ilijas, a suburb of Sarajevo, thinks it will take a long time to settle.
    SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat)
    Most important is to settle my family. Our future is here. But it will take a couple of years.
    SUPER CAPTION: Ljubisa Samardzic, from Ilijas
    And his new home does not compare to their old ones.
    SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat)
    What can I say. Ilijas is behind me now. A town we cannot forget and it is incomparable to Srebrenica.
    SUPER CAPTION: Ljubisa Samardzic, from Ilijas
    This woman from Rajlovac, another suburb of Sarajevo has nothing, not even access to a doctor of medical treatment when she falls ill.
    SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat)
    I have nothing. We don't have doctors, we don't have medicine. We will probably die as we are right now. But blood was coming from my nose last night and no one could help me.
    SUPER CAPTION: Mara Kevac, from Rajlovac
    Many others have not been so lucky - they have ended up living in a refugee camp - formally used by Muslim refugees.
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