Serbian victim statements – attacks on Serbian villages in Srebrenica and surrounding municipalities (1992-1993)

In June 1993, the delegation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia accredited to the UN submitted to the Secretary-General a detailed memorandum on crimes against humanity perpetrated against Serbian residents of Eastern Bosnia between April 1992 and April 1993. The report contained sufficient information for further inquiry. It is not known that the UN or…

ICTY AUTOPSY REPORTS

Summary  The posting of these Srebrenica Autopsy Reports prepared by ICTY forensic teams which between 1996 and 2001 conducted exhumations throughout the Srebrenica area wherever the existence of execution victims’ mass graves was suspected is an event of extraordinary importance to scholars and researchers. This is the only physical evidence of the crime alleged to…

Yvonne McDermott-Federico Cerutti amicus curiae submission in the Karadžić appeal

The appellate proceedings in the Karadžić case have taken a new turn with an amicus curiae application submitted on February 21 2018 to the Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals by two British academics, Dr. Yvonne McDermott and Dr. Federico Cerutti. The submission proposes to test the sustainability of the trial chamber’s conclusion that Radovan…

Confessing at the Hague Tribunal

Public confessions of guilt by prisoners charged with various crimes are a standard operating feature at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia [ICTY]. Dramatic and emotional courtroom confessions, accompanied by undignified self-abasement before the chamber and the prosecution, have been made by some high-profile prisoners as well as lower ranking accused. Their groveling,…

FRY Memorandum on war crimes committed against the Serbian population of Eastern Bosnia between April 1992 and April 1993

This detailed and abundantly documented Memorandum about war crimes committed against the Serbian population in Eastern Bosnia (municipalities of Bratunac, Skelani, and Srebrenica) was submitted to the Secretary General of the UN by the delegation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on 2 June, 1993. The Memorandum received scant media or political attention amidst numerous…