For nearly a generation, allegations of a Serb massacre in Srebrenica have dominated the image of the Bosnian Civil War, the Yugoslav Civil Wars and indeed the image of Serbs as a people. Serbs have been stigmatized a priori as THE war criminals per se. A 1998 article entitled “Mass Graves in Bosnia Bolster War-Crimes…
An important but neglected Dutch documentary on Srebrenica
This Dutch documentary about Srebrenica was created in 2002, around the time the NIOD Report came into being, although there are no indications of a link between the two. The documentary is a Dutch television production put together relatively few years after the event and apparently before the rigid official narrative with its intimidating guidelines…
The Srebrenica survivor count
The important issue of how many Srebrenica enclave residents survived the UN-protected zone’s fall to Serbian forces on July 11, 1995, has been left largely unexamined. Yet, that could provide important clues about the possible number of victims by subtracting the number of survivors from a reliably estimated number of total residents. The general consensus…
Jonathan Rooper about Srebrenica
Jonathan Rooper is a former BBC editor who has taken an extraordinary interest in Srebrenica. Some of his writings on the subject, focusing on but not confined to what he aptly calls the “Srebrenica numbers game,” is posted elsewhere on this website. Mr. Rooper has kindly agreed to do a video reflecting his view of…
Katherine Southwick: Critique of the genocide conviction in the Krstić judgment
In August 2001, a trial chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) handed down the tribunal’s first genocide conviction. In this landmark case, Prosecutor v. Radislav Krstić, the trial chamber determined that the 1995 Srebrenica massacres—in which Bosnian Serb forces executed 7,000 to 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men—constituted genocide. In this Note…
Intelwire Srebrenica Cables
This is a collection of declassified and obviously edited cables concerning Srebrenica roughly in July 1995. We post them for historical research purposes, whatever they may be worth. Srebenica Cables
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the forensic pathologist and ethics
Dr Geoffroy Lorin de la Grandmaison is professor at the University Versailles Saint Quentinen-Yvelines, France. He is a court licenced forensic specialist in France and has authored several books on topics related to his profession, including “Le guide des enquêtes décès,” Editeur : Eska, 2011. His analysis of the ethical tensions faced by pathologists and…
Demilitarization of the UN protected zone of Srebrenica
[The never implemented demilitarization of the UN protected zone in Srebrenica is a key component of the conditions which led to the dénouement of July of 1995. As shown in the text which follows, which is a chapter in the monograph of Srebrenica Historical Project entitled “Srebrenica: the deconstruction of a virtual genocide”, the failure…
Dr. Alexander Mezyaev: Legal theses on the «genocide» aspect of the ICTY trial chamber’s judgment in General Krstić’s case (2001)
First of all, attention should be drawn to the fact that the count of genocide was formulated as an alternative – «genocide OR in the alternative [with] complicity in genocide». Such an alternative is not acceptable because it shows that the Prosecution is not sure with what to charge the accused. It may be genocide…
No evidence supporting genocide finding in ICTY Srebrenica verdicts (2011)
Our research associate Andy Wilcoxson has decided to try an original new approach in his analysis of the validity of the genocide finding in ICTY Srebrenica verdicts. The piece that follows is the result of his efforts. “I wrote it, “he said, “because I think it is a way of looking at the topic from…