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But Serbs had to give over territory to the Muslims for the deal as well.

I do believe the Muslim troops were ordered to withdraw from Srebrenica (it is telling that no one who is screaming about wanting the truth ever tries to get ahold of all the Bosnian Muslim military records on this), and they did this secretly the evening before the Serbs came. Their leadership, including Naser Oric, had left months before, and didn't bother to come back in the intervening weeks.

Though many of the average soldiers didn't know about it until they were suddenly ordered from their strong defenses all around Srebrenica. Only 3 weeks later, the Muslim army was busing soldiers all around to participate in Operation Storm with the Croats, whereby 200,000 Krajina Serbs were ethnically cleansed from Croatia in about 3 days, along with further attacks on those refugees as they crossed into Bosnia.:

After the Fall: Srebrenica Survivors in St. Louis

P. 120 “Srebrenica Survivors in St. Louis: After the Fall” text and interviews by Patrick McCarthy: Quoting Hamil Becirovic – a soldier who walked out:

Srebrenica’s fall was very sudden. We were in our village when the attack began. There were strong points, strong defenses all around. My brother was with me. My mother, wife, and child were together and they went to Potocari.
Around 7:30 in the evening, we got the news that women and children should go in one direction and that men should go in another direction because of the possibility of attack.
The order came from the brigade commander in Srebrenica and the people followed that direction.
It was really hard. My wife took our child and left. I stayed behind at our house and waited for others who were leaving, so that we could go together.
About 11:15 p.m., the men started to get together and we went to a nearby village where the men were also gathering. I was with my family, friends, and neighbors. At one point, there were, I think, something like eighteen thousand men together in that one place.
They told us it would be difficult to walk from the place where we had gathered, to walk to Tuzla, because it was hard to organize eighteen thousand people into one row so that they would go one after another.
People started leaving about 1:00 a.m. It wasn’t our time to go until about 6:00 a.m. Those ahead of us were moving for five hours and we still didn’t leave until 6:00 a.m. – my brother and the others I was with.
We crossed the Serb line and it immediately became more difficult because we were in their territory. There was one huge group of people walking in front of us, marking the way to go. Of course, after eighteen thousand people go, there is a mark of the way, there was a trail of the way out.
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I arrived in Tuzla on the seventh day.