Episode 2: Prison doctors
MSF has been working in the enclave for over 2 years now and has repeatedly informed the media about the difficulties it’s been having trying to get supplies, medicine, and even volunteers inside facing the haggling by the Bosnian Serbs. MSF is still the only source of medical care in the enclave, but its job is being made harder and harder as the violence worsens and the living conditions deteriorate.
The organisation starts to question its role there and wonder if it’s contributing to the Bosnian Serbs’ strategy, acting like prison doctors?
And as the Bosnian-Serb authorities tighten their grip on Srebrenica, MSF is faced with another dilemma - would calling for the evacuation of civilians be the equivalent of abetting the Bosnian Serb’s ethnic cleansing policy of driving out all Muslim inhabitants and claiming the land? Even if those same civilians want to leave.
Produced and mixed by Andrea Rangecroft.
Editorial direction: Nancy Barrett, Martin Saulnier and Sandy McKee
Narrator: Nick Owen.
The extracts read by Daniella Bellos Stagg and Matthew Wade
Music: Lost Harmonies and by Peter Sendberg
Image : © Rip Hopkins
A special thanks to Dr Georges Dallemagne and Dr Rony Brauman.
The MSF Speaking Out: Srebrenica podcast is based on an original MSF case study called ‘MSF and Srebrenica 1993-2003’, written by Laurence Binet. It’s part of the Speaking Out Case Study series - a project by MSF International.
To read the full report and discover other case studies, please go to our website: https://www.msf.org/speakingout
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