Fratricidal War - The Struggle for Tito's Legacy

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Movie
German title Fratricidal War - The Struggle for Tito's Legacy
Original title The Death of Yugoslavia
Country of production England
original language English
Publishing year 1995
length 240 minutes
Rod
Director
  • Norma Percy
  • Peter Very
  • Angus Macqueen
  • Paul Mitchell
  • Michael Simkin
  • Walter Erdelitsch
production Norma Percy, BBC , ORF
music Debbie Wiseman
occupation

Fratricidal War - The Struggle for Tito's Legacy (Original Title: The Death of Yugoslavia) is an award-winning six-part documentary film about the break-up of Yugoslavia after the death of Josip Broz Tito and the subsequent Yugoslav Wars up to the Dayton Agreement in 1995.

In a unique way, the documentary combines previously unseen archive material with interviews with most of the main actors in the conflict, including Slobodan Milošević , Radovan Karadžić , Franjo Tuđman and Alija Izetbegović . These each describe their version of the most crucial moments of the crisis and tell what they did and why.

All documentation relating to the documentation, including full transcripts of the interviews conducted, is on file with the Liddell Hart Center for Military Archives at King's College, University of London.

Episodes

The explosive device (Enter Nationalism)

The fuse burns (The Road to War)

  • Elections in Croatia (May 1990)
  • Serbian Nationalism in Croatia and the Knin Uprising (1990)
  • Arms imports for the Croatian militia
  • Measures taken by Serbian President Slobodan Milošević to take control of the Yugoslav army .

Explosion (Wars of Independence)

Conflagration (The Gates of Hell)

A Safe Area

  • Events in Bosnia and the roles of the United Nations and NATO
  • UN Resolution 819 on the UN Protection Zone Srebrenica (April 1993)
  • Vance-Owen plan to partition Bosnia (failed in May 1993)
  • Fight between Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Muslims
  • Russian troops stationed in the Sarajevo area (February 1994)
  • The way to the NATO mission

The Cold Peace (Pax Americana)

  • The Srebrenica massacre (July 1995)
  • Serbian shell fire on the Sarajevo market square triggered the NATO operation Deliberate Force (August 1995)
  • Milošević and Karadžić conflict over armistice negotiations with US negotiator Holbrooke
  • Armistice with Serbs, withdrawal of heavy weapons around Sarajevo, stop the NATO bombing
  • More fighting by Muslims and Croats
  • General Armistice (October 1995)
  • Peace negotiations begin in Dayton, Ohio (October 31, 1995)
  • Signing of the Dayton Agreement (November 21, 1995)

Use as evidence

Because of the numerous interviews with prominent leaders and commanders of the conflict, the documentation was used by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to prosecute war crimes.

For example, during the trial of Slobodan Milošević before the ICTY, the following dialogue took place between the judge and the witness Vojislav Šešelj :

" Q: [...] Tell us, when you spoke to The Death of Yugoslavia people, were you doing your best to tell the truth on this very substantial television program of record?

A: No. That television program was not one I ever considered to be important or substantial. I considered the BBC to be a hostile television, and I didn't really care about what I said to them then, and the Serb Radical Party took $ 500 US from them for that interview and that money entered the coffers of the Serb Radical Party. "

Awards

  • 1996: BAFTA TV Award - Best Factual Series
  • 1996: Broadcasting Press Guild Award - Best Documentary Series

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Film materials at the Liddell Hart Center for Military Archives
  2. ↑ ICTY Case Transcript Milosevic (see page 43849, line 18 ff.)
  3. ↑ BAFTA TV Award - Factual Series
  4. ↑ Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 1996

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