“MSF Speaking Out" podcast is a newly launched series adapted from the original MSF Speaking Out Case Studies (SOCS). Just as with the case studies, the podcast series examines the challenges and dilemmas surrounding speaking out. It offers an in-depth look into these dilemmas through the narration of extracts from MSF documents and press archives to help establish the facts. Interviews with the main MSF protagonists at the time of the events also provide an insight and analysis of the positions they adopted, with personal perspectives from some MSF staff on how they could or should have done things differently.
Speaking Out Srebrenica Podcast
The first in the podcast collection is adapted from the "MSF in Srebrenica, 1993-2003" case study. The 5-episode series examines the constraints, questions and dilemmas surrounding speaking out that the MSF teams faced during the siege and subsequent massacre which took place in Srebrenica during the Bosnian War of the 1990s.
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Episode 1: Entering the Enclave
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Even after the UN declared the city a ‘safe area’ in March 1993, the Muslim population trapped inside Srebrenica is living under constant shelling. MSF is providing medical care but is starting to question how much protection the UN can actually provide?
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Episode 2: Prison doctors
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MSF is the only source of medical care in Srebrenica. The violence worsens. MSF wonders if it’s contributing to the Bosnian Serbs’ strategy, acting like prison doctors? Should calling for the evacuation be the equivalent of abetting the Bosnian Serb’s ethnic cleansing policy of driving out all Muslims and claiming the land? Even if those same civilians want to leave.
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Episode 3: The fall of Srebrenica, the so called "Safe Zone"
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July 1995 - the fall of Srebrenica. Around 8,000 men and boys massacred. How can this happen with UN peacekeeper in a so-called ‘safe zone’? What mechanisms did MSF put in place to speak out over the UN’s inability to protect the people of Srebrenica?
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Episode 4: Peace agreement versus justice
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Following the fall of Srebrenica, a so-called UN “Safe zone”, thousands are dead, missing or in refugee camps. Where does the responsibility lie for the inaction? What can MSF do to make sure that peace does not take precedence over justice?
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Episode 5: Mechanisms and expectations
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Justice is slow. Many of the nations involved are not taking responsibility for their actions in the enclave. MSF France puts pressure on the French parliament to investigate France’s role in the fall of Srebrenica. However, is it really the role of a humanitarian organisation to issue an appeal for an investigative parliamentary commission?
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