Belgrade-based television B92 and TVBN from Bijeljina in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Friday simultaneously aired the said amateur video-recording which the two TV stations say shows members of the "Hamze" unit of the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Croatian Army unit "Black Mambas" killing captured Serb civilians and soldiers.
B92 said that the recording was in possession of the Hague tribunal's prosecutor's office, but the office has neither confirmed nor ruled out that possibility.
After the Croatian State Prosecutor's Office received the recording showing military actions of the 505th knights' brigade of the 5th corps of the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina in two villages near Dvor na Uni, it requested of the Interior Ministry to conduct a criminal investigation so as to establish relevant facts concerning the events shown at the video recording, the State Prosecutor's Office said in a statement published on its web site.
The Prosecutor's Office said that after reviewing the recording there was founded suspicion that unknown members of the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina in the said region had committed war crimes against civilians and prisoners of war which is why the Croatian State Prosecutor's Office is in contact with the Bosnian Prosecutor's Office.
"The section of the recording showing crimes undoubtedly show that members of the Croatian Army were not taking part in those crimes. Without a doubt, the recording was made somewhere in Bosnia," spokesman for the Croatian government told Hina over the phone.