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lying on a wagon. The Dutchbat soldier saw arms and legs, and also heads with long hair(see page 2683 of the NIOD Report).221. Another Dutchbat soldier tells of a massacre that he had seen during a cleansing by theVRS of the southern sector of the Safe Area. He saw how village after village wasplundered and destroyed and the inhabitants forced to flee. Men and women weremurdered in that action (see page 2683 of the NIOD Report).222. A crew member of observation post S (OP-S) stated subsequently that at various timeson 8 July 1995 he had heard loud shouts and cries of fear coming from women. Thislasted for fifteen minutes, when the noise suddenly stopped. This was repeated for aperiod of hours. Shots were also heard. The OP crew gathered the impression that theVRS was sweeping the entire edge of the woods and that they killed everyone theyencountered. When the OP was captured by the VRS the following day, this Dutchbatsoldier asked the VRS what had been going on the previous evening. The answer wasthat men had first raped the women and then cut their throats (see page 2684 of theNIOD Report).223. A Dutchbat soldier later stated anonymously that he had not wanted to experience whathe had experienced and that he did not want to remember it anymore. There weretorturings, executions and massacres (see page 2684 of the NIOD Report).224. Many rapes occurred in the mini Safe Area during the period 11 to 13 July 1995.Dutchbat was also witness to that. It emerges from a statement made before theYugoslavia Tribunal that two Dutchbat soldiers were witness to the raping of a womanby two Serbs in the night of 12 to 13 July 1995. It transpired that those Serbs woreDutch uniforms. Besides the fact that the rape was not reported, no report was madeeither of the fact that those Serbs made unauthorised use of internationally recognisedsymbols and badges and insignia, in this case the uniform of the UN (see page 2686 ofthe NIOD Report). Both the rape and the unlawful use of the uniform were explicitlylisted in the examples given by Standing Operating Procedure 208, and somehow areport should have been made thereof. The wave of panic brought about by the rapes and© Van Diepen Van der Kroef Advocaten 2007www.vandiepen.com95