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Yellow Wasps: Anatomy of a War Crime
Ilan Ziv/Rory O'Conner | USA | 1995 | 69 min. | documentary video

This searing documentary examines the ugly activity in the former Yugoslavia that has given the world a new phrase: "ethnic cleansing." The Yellow Wasps were a Serbian paramilitary group that crossed the Drina River into Bosnia in the spring of 1992 and unleashed a campaign of torture, murder and deportation. Their crimes, along with those committed by other similar outfits, ultimately led to thousands of deaths and forced the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of refugees. Yellow Wasps examines what Serbian, U.S. and United Nations officials knew about ethnic cleansing and what they did and did not do with this knowledge.

New York Premiere, 1996 Human Rights Watch Festival. Distributed by Noon Pictures, 611 Broadway, Suite 742, New York, NY 10012, Tel: (212) 254-4118 Fax: (212) 254-3154.

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