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This is a book you can buy at amazon.com or probably find in your local library. It is written to push the Srebrenica hype and is about a large extended family of brothers-in-laws, sisters-in-laws, their parents, and children and it has plenty of pictures of them. Yet what I notice is that absolutely none of the women and children in the family lost their lives, nor were there any injuries during the war and evacuation. The military aged men in the family were soldiers who walked out. There were indeed a couple of missing men of the family who were soldiers too - but they were last seen during the march out after there was a skirmish with the Serbs outside Srebrenica - meaning they likely perished in the fights, one of which had large tree branch falling, after an exchange of fire, and killing several the men while having others run off in panic (they often travelled through wooded areas yet not too deep that they keep a side road in their sight).

The Muslims had a large, battled-hardened army up to the day before the fall, and held the advantage of being in a defensive position and the terrain, yet most all of them MARCHED OUT WITHOUT FIGHTING.

This is the quote from one of the men who says they were ordered to leave their strong defenses all around. I seriously doubt the smaller Serb force coming could have entered Srebrenica if the Muslim army seriously tried to defend it. That's why I think it was a set up - the Serbs were allowed to take Srebrenica, probably as a way to wrap up the war and make a neater separation of the factions at the time.

After the Fall: Srebrenica Survivors in St. Louis
P. 120 “Srebrenica Survivors in St. Louis: After the Fall” text and interviews by Patrick McCarthy:
Srebrenica’s fall was very sudden. We were in our village when the attack began. There were strong points, strong defenses all around. My brother was with me. My mother, wife, and child were together and they went to Potocari.
Around 7:30 in the evening, we got the news that women and children should go in one direction and that men should go in another direction because of the possibility of attack.
The order came from the brigade commander in Srebrenica and the people followed that direction.
It was really hard. My wife took our child and left. I stayed behind at our house and waited for others who were leaving, so that we could go together.
About 11:15 p.m., the men started to get together and we went to a nearby village where the men were also gathering. I was with my family, friends, and neighbors. At one point, there were, I think, something like eighteen thousand men together in that one place.
They told us it would be difficult to walk from the place where we had gathered, to walk to Tuzla, because it was hard to organize eighteen thousand people into one row so that they would go one after another.
People started leaving about 1:00 a.m. It wasn’t our time to go until about 6:00 a.m. Those ahead of us were moving for five hours and we still didn’t leave until 6:00 a.m. – my brother and the others I was with.
We crossed the Serb line and it immediately became more difficult because we were in their territory. There was one huge group of people walking in front of us, marking the way to go. Of course, after eighteen thousand people go, there is a mark of the way, there was a trail of the way out.
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I arrived in Tuzla on the seventh day.