International Court of Justice appellate verdict on genocide (Croatia v. Serbia, 2015)

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) appellate judgment in the matter of Croatia vs. Serbia, concerning mutual allegations of genocide supposedly committed during the Balkan conflict in the 1990s, is relevant to the issue of genocide as it is posited in the context of Srebrenica. See related text here: http://us.srebrenica-project.org/2018/01/14/international-criminal-justice-and-genocide/ ICJ’s analysis of the sort of evidence…

Srebrenica survivors’ witness statements (July 1995)

The first of the two documents (Srebrenica witness statements July 1995) is a summary of debriefings of surviving members of the 28th Division armed column which carried out a military formation-style breakout from the enclave of Srebrenica to the nearest Sarajevo-controlled territory in Tuzla, about 60 kilometers away. Along the way, the column had numerous…

ICMP status agreement with signed the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1998)

In April of 1998, the International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP) signed a formal Agreement with the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina defining the scope of its activities and status of its personnel. The Agreement grants ICMP and its personnel and their families on Bosnian soil broad immunity and diplomatic status in conformity with the…

First Republica Srpska Srebrenica Report (2002)

Republika Srpska’s controversial 2002 Srebrenica Report ultimately provoked the formation of the RS Government Srebrenica Commission which, under relentless pressure from the then international High Representative in  Bosnia and Herzegovina, Paddy Ashdown, composed another report in 2004 which was in line with the official Western narrative on the subject. Since both reports were politically motivated…