The Muslims killed each other. Some wanted to surrender and others didn't. Such denials are routine across Serb-held eastern Bosnia. Yet in Bratunac, on the road to Srebrenica, there was little way residents could not have been touched by the events of last summer. It was here where convoys of buses bearing evacuees rolled through the streets, day and night, after Serbs captured Srebrenica July 12.
Residents say the buses carrying women turned west, in the direction of Muslim territory.
But buses holding men stopped at Bratunac. The men were imprisoned in the soccer stadium, a school and a nearby school warehouse, said residents, some of whom heard gun- shots and recall talk of killings. None dared intervene. The police came after him. People were saying our people killed them all, and we are talking thousands of them.