[joan]

I found this photo on the net of Srebrenica soldiers a week after the fall. They are resting and with wounded in a Muslim controlled town. They are armed. The wounded would have been hurt by skirmishes along the way, mines, exhaustion - obviously they weren't captured POWs. No one ever note how many of the Srebrenica soldiers died by the running battles on the way out. They had a long walk through Serb-held territory. Serbs would have to have been alarmed at thousands of Muslim soldiers coming through their villages and towns.

NY Times, July 21, 1995, page A8 -- Bosnian government soldiers from the enclave of Srebrenica which fell to the Serbs last week, stopped for a rest Wednesday near the government held town of Kalesija. The soldiers trekked for days through Serb-held territory, carrying their wounded.

[infidel_and_proud]

Absolutely right, Joan.

The 28th division and the civilians who tagged along for the ride didn't have a prayer.

The ABiH admit the column lost up to 2,000 in the first couple of days between Srebrenica and Konjevic Polje and Nova Kasaba road.

Large ambushes set up by the VRS at Mrici, Kravica, Snagovo, Kamenica Gornja and Liplje, etc. took a heavy toll on the the column (at Snagovo, for example, the ABiH lost at least 300 men ).

At Baljkovica, the ABiH only admit they took heavy casualties, they refuse to give any numbers, though were are surely talking in the 1,000s.

After the lines at Baljkovica were resealed by the VRS after the 28th Div broke through there were still about 3,000 men of the column stuck in Serb territory. Only about 1,000 made it through over the next year or so.

Even IF you take the bloated figures of the ICTY at face value, it almost perfectly matches the losses the column suffered en route to Tuzla.