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How did Bosnian Serb officers persuade some Bosniak men to surrender?

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Two women in headscarves embrace and mourn over a green coffin among rows of identical coffins at the Potocari cemetery during the Srebrenica massacre mass funeral. — Srebrenica genocide Women mourning over a coffin before the mass funeral for 136 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, 2015.

Following the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995, Bosnian Serb officers persuaded Bosniak men to surrender by utilizing captured United Nations equipment and offering false promises of security.1

These deceptive tactics were employed to encourage the men, many of whom were attempting to reach safety through the forest, to give themselves up. Thousands of individuals were captured or surrendered as a result of these promises; they were subsequently taken to various holding sites and executed.1