Writ of summons - Van Diepen Van der Kroef

and around the enclave (see pages 189 and 190 of the NIOD Report, ‘History andReminders in East Bosnia’).14. The then commander of the ‘UN Protection Force’ (‘UNPROFOR’), the French GeneralPh.P.L.A. Morillon, visited Srebrenica Town in March 1993. In Morillon’s view EastBosnia was dominated by more hate than anywhere else, without exception (see page904 of the NIOD Report). The city was by then under heavy siege and overpopulated.The advancing Serb armed forces had destroyed the city’s water supplies and there wasvirtually no running water. Electricity could still be generated but only by dieselgenerators. There was a lack of essentials such as food and medicine. The inhabitantssuffered greatly under the almost daily gunfire and shelling. People died from hungerand cold. According to a Report by the British doctor, S. Mardel of the World HealthOrganization (WHO), who managed to reach Srebrenica on 6 March 1993, there werethen some 2,000 sick in Srebrenica, 40 people a day were dying and about 900 childrenand their parents were homeless (see page 915 of the NIOD Report). Meanwhile, theVRS (Vojska Republika Srpska, the army of the Bosnian Serbs) attacked Srebrenica.Morillon later described the situation in Srebrenica as ‘a hell’ (see page 1222 of theNIOD Report and page 77 of the Summary of the NIOD Report). Morillon, under theinfluence of what he had encountered in Srebrenica, declared in March 1993 before amultitude of Bosniacs (see the Report of the French Parliament, Part I, pages 17/18):‘Vous êtes maintenant sous la protection the l’ONU (...) je ne vous abandonneraijamais’[Lawyer’s translation:You are now under the protection of the UN (…) I will never abandon you.];and in other sources, such as page 77 of the Summary of the NIOD Report:‘I will never abandon you.’and further at number 38 of the UN Report:© Van Diepen Van der Kroef Advocaten 2007www.vandiepen.com14