What really happened in chaotic Sarajevo in and around Dobrovoljacka Street on 3 May 1992?
The range of views appears to be broadly as follows:
Core Serbia/’Serb’ Claim: perfidious massacre of JNA soldiers attempting to withdraw from Sarajevo under UN colours as per an agreement duly reached with the Bosniac leadership, with senior Bosniac leaders including Ejup Ganic personally responsible either directly or implicitly. Slam dunk war crime.
Bosniac Claim Version 1: understandable formal military response to previous JNA brutality and kidnap of President Izetbegovic – JNA themselves broke the agreement under which they could withdraw. That said, not known who gave the orders to shoot. No war crime – chaos of war, which Serbia started
Bosniac Claim Version 2: spontaneous, irregular but more or less understandable/justifiable attack by Bosniac irregulars responding to JNA aggression the previous day. No formal orders given. No war crime – just a mess
Bosniac Claim Version 3: a fully legitimate attack on a fair military target: at worst the Bosniacs were in ‘technical’ breach of a ceasefire unfairly imposed on them as a condition for getting back their kidnapped leader. Even if orders were given, as it was a proper military attack the issue is of no significance. No issue here folks, so move along
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The Serbian claim lies behind the Serbia government’s latest attempt to secure Ganic’s extradition. But what level of hard evidence will they need to put forward (a) to make a convincing and finally winning case for extradition now, and (b) to secure a conviction if the issue ever gets to trial in Serbia?
The Death of Yugoslavia videos suggest different version of Bosniac Versions 1 and 2, as articulated by Ganic himself and others. For a good, detailed account of the "it was all a mess" approach, read this interview with Jovan Divjak, one of the few people in the whole Yugoslav collapse disaster to have kept a reputation for integrity: