INTRO
ie At this moment key figures in the four year old conflict in the former Yugoslavia are meeting in Dayton Ohio to try to bring an end to the Balkans tragedy. A sticking point in the negotiations is the fact that two of the main players, General Ratko Mladic and Dr Radavan Karadzic are indicted war criminals. We are yet to know whether the outcome will see their surrender to the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague.
In tonight's report we look behind the work of the War Crimes Tribunal which has been busy in Australia. This country is at the forefront in accepting refugees [Tom the fonner Yugosla'ia. Their stories and the stories of other Australians caught up in this complex and confusing struggle gives us an opportunity to explain it through the prism of our own experience.
In Chris Masters' report we see that as the war draws to a conclusion over there, important questions emerge over here, about how we manage the peace.
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SYNC BORISLA V HERAK
I never had anything.. German N/arks. Gold. 1 never knew what that's like.
I wanted all that., and J saw the others doing it so J followed in their footsteps the killing rape and looting. ....
I saw others do that and Jjust went down the same path, because
    I thought I'd have a little something after the war     .

RECEDE IMAGE AND FADE INTO SMOKE AND RUIN.
POV DRIVING? BOSANSKA KRUPA
ON THE ROAD TO SANSKI MOST (27/28) SMOKE AND RUIN BOSANSKA KRUPA (28)
TRACTOR CAR AND TRAILER LOADED LITTLE BOY/SDS GRAFFITI
MOVING PO V?

ACTUALITY /FX
Borislav Herak is a Bosnian Serb who has confessed to war crimes. His story takes us to the darkest heart of this conflict. ... where we are going now.
ACTUALITY /FX
Bosanska Krupa a few hills from the frontline at Sanski Most is territory newly recovered as Bosnian Moslem forces drive back the Bosnian Serbs.
ACTUALITY
The fighting has barely died mvay. The people are coming back. ACTUALITY/FX
In this war it is hard to tell the difference between the
    refugees and the looters     to see the distance between the
innocence and evil.
MOSQUE AND SOLDIERS INT.
FRESH GRAVE (28)
CERAMICS FACTORY (27) INTERIOR MESS
WALK WITH MALE SURVIVOR

ACTUALITY ("Chetniks")
A little further on - a wrecked mosque. Inside, (from the roof and on the floor), the apparatus of the hangman. Outside the smell of death.
ACTUALITY
Still further on a Ceramics Factory- only hours earlier it was a prison controlled by the retreating Serb forces. The smell, the fear of the last crowded hours still lingers.
ACTUALITY
At least one has survived to tell the story.

SYNC SURVIVOR.
They were all here. There were J J people there, and there was my next door neighbour at that place there.
These ones I could not see how much the maggots have eaten the head, they have eaten it all away, no one can be recognised.l .... The people were all in the concentration camp, and they took them all out of there and they were beaten with knives and hammers, the type they use to take nails out, thats what they used.
We saw it all where the wounds on the bodies were cut.

SOLDIERS IN STREET (28) TRUCK RUSHES PAST
CHRIS WALK DEAD BODIES

ACTUALITY /FX
The fighting (in the middle of the ceasefire) is now very close.
And the carnage more visible. ACTUALITY
What has happened here has been repeated a thousand times, all through Bosnia.

CHRIS TO CAMERA
This ·war is often described as an evil mystery. We are alternatively told it is tribal, its civil, its feudal, its religious. Its roots are buried so deep in history no outsider could ever understand. We're told this to a point of confusion that suspends our outrage if not our belief. But when you get here you realise that no one can agree on who is to blame for what happened yesterday let alone in 1389 or 1942. And what do ancient arguments matter in the face of modern murder? When you get here you begin to see this not as a war at all, but a crime.

THOMAS ACKHEIM COLLECTS BAG AND WALKS OUT OF AIRPORT (01) (caption Adelaide Sept. 95)

ACTUALITY
Since the conflict began Australia has received over 12,000 refugees from the former Yugoslavia.
ACTUALITY
Among them are witnesses to the many crimes that have occurred in the last four years.
ACTUALITY
And that is what has brought this investigator with the International War Crimes Tribunal to Australia. ACTUALITY
He is in pursuit of what may be the largest homicide investigation in human history.

SYNC THOMAS (s1.l p.8)
M,my of the witnesses are frightened. They are concerned maybe not so much for their own security, but most about security for their families that are still in that area.
A T COMPUTER (01)

ACTUALITY
For all of September the Tribunal compiled statements from around thirty Australian based witnesses, all from the Moslem or Croat communities.

SYNC EDIN (SR3)
It was horror and chaos, that was not a war, that was in jact only killing, Serbs killing Nfuslims and Catholic'~"There is no l!fe for anyone else except for Serbs", they were telling us.

INTERCUT TYPING ETC

(START v.o.)

SYNC ZIY AD (SR 29)
In thefi-eezer we found three human heads and a dog, slaughtered in the bath tub.
SYNC ZUARA (SRI7)
Which ever door we opened, there was a woman lying dead in the armchair or on the jl~ We~fust could not stay there.
SYNC MATO (SR 12 START)
After they took their turns J was completely covered in blood, evelything was in blood. J had a white jumper on and evelything was covered in blood, evelything.

EXT. WAR CRlMES TRlBUNAL (caption The Hague Oct.95)
VAULT BEING OPENED (14)

ACTUALITY
Back at Tribunal headquarters in the Hague the Australian statements join the others in preparation for future trials. ACTUALITY
Here too Australians are well represented. Graham Blewitt (who conducted the Australian Nazi investigations) is Deputy Prosecutor.

SYNC BLEWITT CONT.
There's no denying the fact that the holocaust was just a mass annihalation of the European Jews. It
        was the Nazis attempt to just ob~iterat~ them :ro.m, fro~ the 1arth. UJdertaken is, is really quite different than what hap]JJ1ed in the second wor d war .
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The extent that it's beer< ~arried out it, it's almost as if you know people have been taking delight in doing it and
the worst features of all is that the perpetrators were neighbours of of the victims.
SYNC MARlCA MOST ARAC (p.6)
Afy neighhour came to my house, grabbed me by the hair. He was dragging me around my yard, he said that my hushand deserved to mashed and broken. J sllspected he might have heen one of those hashing my hushand hecause he hated him.
PAINTBOX MAP OF FORl'v1ER YUGOSLA VIA.
ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS KALEIDOSCOPE.
CHURCHES BG.
MILOSOVIC
TUDJMAN
REFERENDUM 29/2-1/3/92
DR KARADZIC
TANKS ETC

Before the genocide the three main ethnic groups in Bosnia Hertzegovina were intermingled and as far as one third is concerned, intermarried.
The three main churches best represent the divide between the Croatian Catholics, the Serbian Orthodox and the Moslems.
Following the collapse of communism Bosnian politics also divided along religious and ethnic lines.
ACTUALITY
Nationalistic tub thumping in neighbouring Serbia and Croatia exacerbated tensions particularly after Croatia proclaimed its independence from Yugoslavia. ACTUALITY
In February 1992 Bosnians also voted in favour of independence, the Serb population largely boycotting the referendum.
ACTUALITY
The SDS the Serbian Democratic Party of Bosnia, led by a psychiatrist, Dr Radavan Karadzic, encouraged a national neurosis that Bosnian Serbs were under threat. ACTUALITY
Aided by the massive Serb war machine Karadzic used this excuse to strike first in pursuit of a Greater Serbia.

SYNC EDIN (SR3 p.l)
Serhian tanks entered into our little town Kotor Varas and immediately started to shoot at the houses, arresting civilians, they were taking all of them to Pilana, a company that was very well fenced with wire. Some were immediately executed, there was fear, fear and horror.
Children were Clying, screaming.
SYNC ZIY AD (p.3)
A person would have to take the side he happens to be on, because when the shooting starts then there is no selection as to what and who a person is, my opinion is to defend the side 1 live in, fi"om the other side, to prevent the opposing side fi"om entering into that part of town, as then there would he a massacre.
SYNC IBRAHIM (p.ll)
Because they voted to secede the Serbs considered that evelyhody was an enemy and that they had the right to kill us as they pleased and they were killing us.
SYNC ZUARA (p.2)
By 8 a 'clock in the morning they had already burned half the neighbouring villagellill They were killing people, two children were wounded and they saved themselves by falling on top of the others. Afterwards these wounded and bleeding children made it to afarm on the edge of my village.
When the farmer came tofeed his animals they told him
'~VOu must run away because it's your villages turn tonight"
ORASAC (29)
CHILDREN WALK TO PLUM ORCHARD

FX
The story of the village of Orasac is typical of what is obscenely described as "ethnic cleansing".
Here is a list of those still missing. ACTUALITY
These two children are assisting war crimes investigators with the case against the murderers.
ACTUALITY
The boy witnessed the local Serb leader arrive with heavily armed men from a neighbouring village. Though fired upon he managed to escape to the hills.
ACTUALITY (FX shooting etc???)
When the shooting began the girl also fled. ACTUALITY
In this plum orchard 26 villagers, including her mother were working, all unarmed. They were attacked with machine
gun fire and hand grenades.
ACTUALITY
After the men left the girl, then 10 found the bodies mutilated beyond recognition.
ACTUALITY (1 saw part army mother's leg. 1 recognised her hy her white sands/we. p.l)

CHRIS TO CAMERA
Like an imported virus the message from the political opportunists reached in to villages like this one, arousing long supressed fears and turning neighbours into executioners. It is shocking enough to dismiss the brutality that swept through these streets and homes as random, insane, unexplainable blood lust. It is even more shocking to begin to see the method in the madness.
SYNC BLEWITT (p.ll)
~ome might say that the events which have occurred have really just happened by accident but I think the evidence that we have gathered will show that there's no accident to what has happened. Urn. Invariably
whenever a village or a town was attacked the para, paramilitary forces would enter first, would commit
absolutely brutal crimes, would terrorise the local population and then the regular army would come in behind
those groups and a, and then mop up as it were. And the paramilitary groups would just go from, from village to village just terrorising and committing these atro~ig

LIB ARKAN (41)

ACTUALITY
Wearing the red beret is the most notorious paramilitary warlord Arkan, from neighbouring Serbia, where he is still regarded by some as a folk hero.
ACTUALITY
Arkan has managed to do repeatedly what he is doing here to these captured Moslems - that is terrorise to the point where the bulk of the population would flee.
POV EMPTY HOME

ACTUALITY
When communities were ovenm the bandit's reward was the theft of all that fell before them.

SYNC MRS MOST ARAC (p.S)
They looted everything, they took even the pigs ...
They took the pigs, I had forty pigs whenlvlato was taken to the camp.

SEP ARA TION???

ACTUALITY
Those who were left alive were frequently separated. First the women, the children, the elderly, from the military age men. The educated were also singled out.

SYNC EDIN (pA)
In the prison were also professors, engineers, doctors, people who, until recently, had been teaching and training those same people, who were now torturing them, they had had trust in them, they lived together with them, they were 11O"W enjoying in making these engineers, doctors, clean the streets and the toilets, even licking the floor in the toilets, it was just awfid.

CAMPS

ACTUALITY
These pictures of the camps, when shown to the world brought back the images we thought Europe had left behind. ACTUALITY
After they were shown no longer were cameras allowed.

SYNC MATO (p.5)
I ate all my blood, dried blood, it dried all over me. J 'd pluck it together with the fibers pom the jumper, and all that. I'd eat all that, and even the bloodfi'om my hair. J ate evelything. Hungry ... hungly ... and they gave you water.
SYNC EDIN (pps 3/4)
Inj{Jct, on one occasion when the guards were beating us, and after that they were swearing tired and nervous, I heard them as they were throwing and breaking plates, they were cursing their superiors, hecause they were given little food and they were shouting: "All we ever eat is rice, how can we beat people evelY day. ?" That means, that was their job, they were put there to heat us, to mistreat us and humiliate us.

WOMEN ON THE MOVE WITH CHILDREN

ACTUALITY
Mothers and children were also separated and sometimes sent through minefields before they could reach safety. ACTUALITY (BREATH)
This group now settled in Sydney get together once a week.

SYNC NAJA (s1.26 p.6)
We haven't money .... buy food, anything. After le go in Slovenia, but they didn't accept us. We must come back in Croatia, and then my husband escape from Brcko ... one woman ... Serbian woman help my husband and he go in Austria after she help us, ////.I must go somewhere and I go in Embassy and ask him for help, and they help me after I came in Australia with my children and husband.
SYNC SUARA (s1.29 P.6)
I never thought to go anywhere to left my country and suddenly I had to and my parents and my
brother they are still there in Bosnia and sometimes I think I will never see them again and in same
way they are now like dead for me, because I have any, I have no any photo anything. I have anything
with them (SIGHS) and that's the most painful for me.
SYNC LEJLA (sUO p.l)
For example when a sniper shoots he chooses always a child or a woman, because if you shoot a soldier it's normal in the war, if the soldiers dies. I know the difference because my brother died as a soldier and it's different from, for example my child being shot by a sniper. So with the rape it's the same thing they are ruining the complete family especially in the Bosnian culture its (SIGHS).

THE WOMEN (RAPE VICTIMS)

ACTUALITY
When the separation occurred, the young and attractive were also singled out.

SYNC EDIN (p.lO)
The women also went through horror, perhaps worse then us. I had the chance ... in the next room in the prison, they brought a woman[lgo not know whose she was, I just know that she is ji'om a village called Cirkino Brdo. Each night we heard her screams, and the laughing of the local Serb guards.
    SYNC HERAK. 0     '-....
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 He told us we should visit the "Sonja" prison where we can rape a few women, that it's goodfor
comhat morale.
"­..0---_
WIPE

HERAK

 
HERAK

 
HERAK

I hit her a little.
What with?
Nfy hand.
A fist or a slap?
A slap, with an open hand, I hit her and tell her to take her clothes off I

threaten to kill her ifshe doesn't get undressed. Then I too take ofJmy clothes and place my rifle
here, on the chest.

INS'PECTOR
HERAK

 
HERAK

You're standing up, sitting down, what?
I get on top of her. And thelL
What about your gun?
Here, like this, I don't really lie on top ofher ... ../ Her legs like this, and

my gun is like this, the head like this the breasts here. And I hold the gun and I rape her ...


 

 

With a buJlet in the harreJl
Yes and no safety lock.

SYNC ZUARA (pA)

Our religious leader '.I' daughter was raped. .. she was taken away twice, they were harassing her, heating her, and the third time when they took her away, four of them raped her. Our next door neighhour raped her, When he was orphaned we brought him up and he did that, he raped many women in village.

HER4K

And we took her out and we were told the same thing, do what you want with

her ... kill her. Do what you want but kill her. We don't need her here. Again we went up to Zuc, the
same place, J took my semi-automatic and walked ahead a couple offeet then J shot her, in the head,
one hullet.

WOMEN
HEAD TRIM MELIHA
SYNC MELIHA (p.3)

ACTUALITY
Rape is hardly uncommon in war. But what happened to these women, particularly the Moslem women, could hardly be regarded as inevitable.
(v.o. There were houses createdfor that purpose and there were all kinds olactivities that the witnesses tell us that lead us to our conclusion that it was a very well, a velY sophisticated pattern.)
Meliha Aganovic is a Bosnian doctor who has made a study of the rape camps.

So what is the pattern?
Ahh .. that the pattern was the destruction of the Muslim family life like I said. The family ahh me knowing that Bosnian traditions are very sacred family is Bosnian tradition.

ARTILLERY ETC
U.N. IN SREBRENICA

ACTUALITY
This cowards' war has followed the same pattern all through the last four years.
Civilians are raped and murdered. Enclaves are surrounded and crushed.
Survivors are captured, tortured and executed. ACTUALITY
When the world began to believe what was going on condemnation grew but it made no difference. ACTUALITY
Look at what happened in July this year when Bosnian Serb forces moved in on the UN protected enclave of Srebrenica.

SYNC DANIEL O'BRIEN (p.6)
You've never seen men so scared and ahh and they were absolutely frightened. You know it was one of the strongest feelings I take from the place was how frightened you know the local people were you know, just it was palpable? fear. Just...the grown men I used to work with just sit in there and and with sweat just running their, off their foreheads you know.
SREBRENICA CONT. SEPARATION OF THE MEN ETC.
SYNC DANIEL (pps 10111)

ACTUALITY
Daniel O'Brien an Australian doctor with Medicin Sans Frontier was one of the very few outsiders to see what happened when the enclave was overun.

It was very well organised. they had all the buses ready and waiting to go you know weeks ahead
PEOPLE ON TO BUSES ETC
DANIEL v.O. cont.
So what was the{ate of these people who were taken away
on the buses?
Weill meanl always have this memory ahh as the people were walking out in their sort of lines towards the buses II carrying their little kid by the hand you know.
1 just thought you know I've seen this before in holocaust films and I'll neverforget/ust the lines of sort of helpless people walking up to the buses.

GENERAL MLADIC AT SREBRENICA

ACTUALITY
The Bosnian Serb military leader General Ratko Mladic was filmed at the scene.
A few survivors of the alleged massacre that followed said Mladic was there when thousands were lined up and murdered.

SYNC GRAHAM BLEWITT (pA)
We do have that evidence and it will become apparent in the um .. .in the indictments which are still going to come out. Even though we've indicted Mr Mladic and ahh ... Dr. Karadzic that investigation is still continuing. We are gathering further evidence against them and um ... yes that's likely to lead to indictments where there is direct evidence against them that they were involved in the actual commission of the crimes.

PAINTBOX MLADIC KARADZIC
AND DOCUMENT (21-22/9/91)

While Mladic can be placed closer to the scene of the crimes his political leader Dr Karadzic can be placed closer to the hand that signed the paper.
Four Corners obtained a copy of this order to the Secretariats of National Defence, dated at the outbreak of the conflict.
It states "in the event of resistence to those rightful and humane aspirations of the Serbian nation, be merciless, eye for an eye".
The author is Dr Karadzic.

SYNC EDIN (pA)
They were forcing us to answer their questions, which were: "Where do you live?", we had to answered loudly: "In Serbia." "What language do you speak?" We had to answer loudly: "The Serbian language." They were forcing us out to sing Chetniks songs, it was such humiliation.
BOMBARDMENT/SNIPING

ACTUALITY
The campaign of terror was designed apparantly to cause the population to flee in panic.
ACTUALITY
The rape and torment appeared designed to destroy the self respect of those left behind.

SYNC MELIHA
In a way you think, myself I think, if such brilliant minds who created this hell were positively oriented they could have made miracles. Such a wonderful progress to their own people. I know what they have done to my people, but I just can't understand how they could have done it to their own people, hecause they have suffered too.

KRAJINA ATTACK
STEVE STOIJIC (38)

ACTUALITY
Serbs have been conspicuous victims of the violence, by their own and opposing forces.
ACTUALITY
The Bosnian and Croatian Governments retaliation, particularly in the Krajina, the borderland was every bit as ruthless as preceding Serb offensives.
ACTUALITY
Steve Stoijic an Australian/Serb civilian was one of the 170,000 evicted.

SYNC STEVE (p.6)
If I think about this and see the people I have to cry for myself and for them also. That is impossible that when you get everything, next day you got nothing.

VISION APPROACHING BANJA LUKA
SYNC LISA JONES (pps 2/3)

ACTUALITY
The Serb controlled city of Banja Luka, to where many of the refugees fled, is the latest centre of terror. ACTUALITY
Remaining Croat and Moslems hide in fear from the retribution that precedes their army's advance.

I've stepped over the blood stains on the floor. I've seen the marks in the wall the .. .it was an elderly
couple. A woman 85 years old and a man just a few years older. The woman was tortured for about
three quarters of an hour before she died with, with scissors and had glasses from her cupboard
thrown at her. So I saw blood splattered wall, pock marks in the wall from, from the glass, the
scissors, cushions, curtains things being ripped and everything covered in blood. I I've seen it.

TOMIC READING PAPER (12)

ACTUALITY
The Serb community has also suffered.
Slobodan Tomic is a Bosnian Serb now settled in Australia. His crime was to be caught on the wrong side of the fighting. He was imprisoned for 12 months by Moslem police in Sarajevo. (v.o.They tortured us in evelY way)
SYNC SLOBODAN TOMIC (p.l)
People lost their teeth, their eyes and their ears, they even put out cigarettes on various body parts, incised crosses on the body, god knows what eiselill myself brought two-three of them out of the cell, dead, and about fifteen of them died during the one year I was in jail! I I

RED CROSS AND
REFUGEE CAMP (25)
SYNC LISA JONES (p.6)

ACTUALITY
Mr Tomic was saved, like many of the refugees to Australia by the intervention of the Red Cross.
ACTUALITY
He moved on to a refugee camp more fortunate than this one.
ACTUALITY
This group is caught literally in a dead end. Like many in Bosnia, they can't move on. They can't go home.

Where do they seek to go?
Out, actually. It, it doesn't matter and I think when your life is threatened you don't care. They just want to cross the border. In calmer situations actually people are commonly picking New Zealand and Australia as places they would like to go. For the simple reason that it's the most distant point on the globe that they can think of.

BELGRADE
(caption. Belgrade, Serbia Oct. 95)
QUEUE OF REFUGEES OUTSIDE AUTRALIAN EMBASSY (35/36)

ACTUALITY
Australia has increased its intake of refugees from all of the broken fragments of Yugoslavia.
ACTUALITY
When people are given a ticket to freedom it is not because they are Croat, Moslem or Serb. We discriminate on the basis of need rather than race or religion.

CHRIS TO CAMERA
There is no question that predominant among those most guilty of war crimes are Serbs. There is no question that prominent among the innocent are also Serbs. The innocent have every good reason to want to get as far from the genocide as humanly possible. So do the guilty. As you can see Australia is a favoured destination. The big question for us is how we tell the difference?

QUEUE AND WAITING ROOM

ACTUALITY
The Australian Immigration Department does collect information from the War Crimes Tribunal and other sources on alleged war criminals.
They currently have 250 suspects on their movement alert list. They accept that in the gap between the chaos of the conflict and the quality of available intelligence some criminals may creep through.

SYNC BLEWITT (p.5)
It's not a likelihood, it's a reality, in fact it's already happened on, on one occasion. There have been reports that survivors have identified a perpetrator and we're currently negotiating and cooperating with the Australian government, with the law enforcement authorities there to try and track down the individual who was sighted.
Stories of sightings have raced through the refugee community in Australia like another virus. We have heard of victims encountering tormentors in the psychiatrist's waiting room, in english language classes, at the school gate and one here at the Flemington markets in Sydney.
When we look beyond the sightings we find many are more likely the result of understandable hysteria and trauma Thats many but not all.

GENERAL ARKAN???
GUDELJ ETC DEATH OF JOSIP REIHL­KIR
SIR NINIAN STEPHEN
WALKING AND ENTERING TRIBUNAL (15)

ACTUALITY
The very same person being sought by the War Crimes Tribunal has been located by Four Corners. The man, an officer in the Bosnian Serb paramilitary is accused of taking part in interrogation and ethnic cleansing in association with the notorious Arkan.
The War Crimes Tribunal prefer we don't identifY him and a second alleged war criminal known to us, before they seek an interview or indictment.
ACTUALITY
Another man, identified earlier by the 7.30 report, Antun Gudelj has been convicted in his absence of murders in Croatia.
Gudelj, an Australian citizen, shot the Eastern Croatian police chief and two others in 1991 before escaping Croatia and returning to Australia where, despite the existence of an international arrest warrant he has been living ever since. ACTUALITY
Gudelj is not a likely subject for the War Crimes Tribunal.
ACTUALITY
But others in Australia are likely to be extradited to the Hague. When this occurs they may well appear before another Australian, Judge Sir Ninian Stephen.

SYNC NINIAN STEPHEN (pps 1/2) So what is the objective of these trials?
Well in my view the main objective is to dissuade future conceivable war criminals from acting in a criminal way. To deter really, deterrent seems to me to be the best objectives that can be sought.
SYNC MELIHA (p.13)
It restores your hope in establishment, in law, in justice. It restores the life, even one convict, one
person convicted ahh .. would do alot of difference you know. So we expect very much for the future
life, for you to feel safe again that it wont, and belief that it wouldn't be repeated. So this Hague is a
tremendously important to us, tremendously from the psychological side of view and for the future.
MONTAGE OF DESTRUCTION OSIJEK (33)
KRAJINA (34)
MAN FISHING (30)
TRANSITION TO EDIN AND DAD FISHING AT SHELLHARBOUR (05) (caption - Shell harbour NSW)

MUSIC
Punishing the criminals is one part of working towards resolution and rebuilding the fractured formwork of a nation. It is an exhausting prospect.
MUSIC
Because it is not just the people who have been murdered. MUSIC
Just beyond Osijek here they murdered the whole city of Vukovar.
MUSIC
They murdered towns, villages, homes. In the countryside it is a surprise to find a building intact.
MUSIC
It is a joyous surprise to see anything at all that is normal. MUSIC
(v.o. Australia is a beautiful counfly and we were welcomed warmly. J simply can't believe that all of a sudden we have so many rights, that we are normal people and that nobody has a dislike towards us.)

SYNC EDIN MESUD CONT (end)
There we didn't have right to look, we were not permitted to look at anyone, we didn't have any rights, because if you are not a Serb you do not have any rights. But here it is fantastic. I have not settled in yet I am still learning the language, how it is going to be later I do not know yet.
SYNC ZIY AD AND NADA(SR 24 p.l)
Regarding life in Australia, it's great, peace, it is quiet, people are nice, friendly.
What is most important, there is no nationalism, nobody cares for it. Over there we lost everything, 20 years of my active working life, I lost everything that I had, I have nothing. Now they have accepted me. everything is going OK, even if it is not my house, slowly I will have my own house too, I have my things, at least I own what you can see here, I sleep peacefully, I have enough food and drink. I think. what is most important, people are similar, and also it is a similar enviromnent, the picture itself reminds me of Bosnia.

PAINTBOX MAP
TERRITORIAL GAINS ETC
ART CLASS
GRANVILLE WOMEN
SYNC LEJLA (sUO p.4)

Before the war Bosnia was, like Australia, a multicultural kaleidoscope.
Now as the cease fire holds and the peace talks progress it looks more like this.
MUSIC
If Bosnia is partitioned into seperate states then war crime will have paid.
MUSIC
The criminals will have gained ground and the innocent who have fled including the one third of the population of mixed marriages will be left in no man's land.
MUSIC
In this respect the evil plan will have worked. The haters will have won.
MUSIC
The big job for us in Australia is to make sure the haters do not win here.
("BRAVO!")
What would you teach your children?
Well I will teach my children not to hate because hate destroys you.
SYNC NADIA (s1.30 p.3)
I, I want help my children and only what I can give my children is education. All time I sit with my children and we learn together. Never, never we we talk about war, in front of children. I want they have bad memory. I want they have everything best.
SYNC LEILA (s1. 31 p.6)
What do they think that we are savages, barbarians or something like that. How could you do that and we do not understand anything about it. How can you do that and what have I done, nothing, (laughs), I just run away.
SYNC MOSTARACS (p.9)
Thanks to Australia again for accepting us, enabling us to live like people should live, but I would
still like to be in my Vukovar.
    END CREDITS OVER NEKIC PAINTINGS     MUSIC