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The ITN film crew was itself caught on film by a Belgrade film crew that went there with them. The ITN-ers put themselves behind fenced in area around a barn/shed and filmed through that. They were filmed walking in there through a gap in the dilapidated fence of chicken wire with a few strands of barbed wire on top attached to thin, leaning poles. The men were in a refugee area and free to go. Other people, including women, were seen sitting in the shade beneath the trees in the background of other footage taped that day. They were people displaced from the war and fighting.

The thin man, Fikret Alic, was brought forward when Penny Marshall started pointing out thin men among them - so they brought him forward as one who was really skinny. That man is living in Denmark with his Bosniak wife and child. There was no evidence of injury or bruising on any of the men. Many Bosnians left for Europe to sit out most of the war. Fikret Alic was in Europe shortly after that propaganda film.

Not the Trnopolje BS again, Joan.

Been there, done that.

You know how this plays out Joan, yet you're still pushing these lies.

Why?

Feh. It's a rhetorical question. Don't bother.

The LM article basically claimed that the camps were merely temporary holding places where refugees could come and go as they wished.

This lost the libel trial because that claim was rubbish.

There has never been any question in my opinion or in the article that I published that this camp was anything other than a grim place at which there were beatings, there were killings and there were rapes. There has never been any question of that. We have never argued contrary to that. - Michael Hume

I do not say that they at the time were able to leave and there - you know, there were fences, there were guards, which we have seen here, armed guards. - Thomas Deichmann

In other words, the only people who still think Trnopolje was no big deal are the Marxists and Serbs with very selective listening skills.