The evacuation of the hospital earned particular notoriety after the Serbs failed to live up to an agreement with the Red Cross and other international observers to monitor the surrender. When the agreed hour approached, an armored Serb vehicle blocked the observers' access across a bridge to the hospital while buses took another route to smuggle out the men seized inside the building.
Earlier, Sljivancanin had been filmed talking to officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross in front of the hospital, promising to hand over all the patients safely. The footage has been repeatedly aired on Croatian TV over the years.
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