Contrary to the international humanitarian law provisions, Moslem military authorities in Sarajevo used maternity homes, rehabilitation centres and other medical treatment facilities for military purposes. By positioning machine-gun and sniper nests in these facilities they turned them into strongholds.
When the Serb party responded to their fire delivered from the mentioned facilities, the true state of affairs was presented malevolently in the media campaign to the detriment of the Serbs. The deaths of numerous injured and sick Serbs at the hospitals were caused by the lack of medical care which was especially manifest in deprivation of the Serb patients of blood transfusions and constant delays of operations. These violations of international humanitarian law are corroborated by a vast number of statements given by witnesses, especially by physicians from Sarajevo.
The chief of medical staff, Dr. They were brought in by Dr. Throughout that day and the next day as well, they were launching fire attacks from the maternity home against the Serb positions. It was not before However, it was already vacated. No single newborn infant or woman who has just given birth or any of the medical staff members was injured because they had all been evacuated beforehand.
While some of those members changed into the hospital pyjamas another group came dressed in white medical staff outfits the next day. They started shooting from the third floor of the Institute and killed some 20 Serbs who were in the park.
Later, Serbs burned the third floor, but there were no wounded patients. They were taken to the first floor and ground floor beforehand. Twice they had hit the Traumatological Clinic in my close vicinity. However, it always took place after the Moslem Army members, positioned in front of the Traumatological Clinic, had fired a series of shells. Nearby it was located some kind of their school where we used to hide later whenever they would start launching fire attacks from that school against the Serb positions.
