This report was researched and written by Ernst Jan Hogendoorn, Research Assistant at the Human Rights Watch Arms Project, and edited by Joost R. Hiltermann, Director of the Arms Project. It is based on two research missions to the former Yugoslavia in 1996. Human Rights Watch is grateful to Gordon M. Burck, Principal Policy Analyst, EAI Corporation; Alastair Hay, Reader in Chemical Pathology, the University of Leeds; and Julian P. Perry Robinson, Senior Fellow, Science Policy Research Unit, the University of Sussex, for reviewing a draft of the report and providing useful comments.

Human Rights Watch interviewed numerous international and government officials, military officers, diplomats and journalists, as well as victims of the war in the former Yugoslavia. Human Rights Watch expresses thanks to all of them and regrets that confidentiality and safety prevents us from identifying them individually. We would like to give special thanks to the many helpful and generous people in the former Yugoslavia who have made our work possible.

The Human Rights Watch Arms Project acknowledges with appreciation the support of the Rockefeller Foundation. Human Rights Watch takes sole responsibility for the content of this report.

Human Rights Watch Arms Project
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