Blindfolds Support Survivors’ Accounts of Srebrenica Massacre
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SAHINICI, Bosnia-Herzegovina — U.N. investigators on Thursday stacked up rows of blindfolds on a muddy hillside, powerful evidence that beneath them lay the victims of an ethnic massacre.
The dozens of blindfolds, strips of cloth mostly in dark colors, support survivors’ accounts that up to 8,000 men were slaughtered by the Bosnian Serbs who overran the eastern Muslim enclave of Srebrenica last summer.
Survivors say that, after Srebrenica fell in July, Bosnian Serb fighters loaded the men into trucks and took them to a school gymnasium near Sahinici, 35 miles southeast of Srebrenica. They say the men were ordered to remove their hats and coats, then were blindfolded. They were then taken to two fields and shot.
The blindfolds found Thursday are believed to be unused ones taken from the school to be disposed of in the fields where the bodies were buried.
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