“Truth and reason are eternal,” Thomas Jefferson wrote to Rev. Samuel Knox in 1810. “They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail . . . ” Jefferson was wrong. His belief that “Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left to combat it” was naive. As Patrick J. Buchanan proves in a passing reference…
Dutch Appellate Court ruling on Dutch State liability for Potočari refugee deaths (2017)
On 27 June 2017, a Dutch appellate court in the Hague ruled that the Dutch State is liable for the deaths of a certain number of Muslim Srebrenica enclave residents who had taken refuge at the UN compound in Potočari under the control of the Dutch Battalion but later fell into Serb hands. The Plaintiffs,…
Dutch Debriefing on Srebrenica
The Dutch Debriefing on Srebrenica is a primary source document of extraordinary value. It is based on the questionnaire given by the Government of the Netherlands to each individual member of Dutch armed forces (Dutchbat) who served as part of the UN mission in the Srebrenica enclave. The time frame includes July 1995 when the…
DNA evidence and its uses in ICTY Srebrenica cases (2011)
It is time for some serious attention to be given to the important but largely neglected issue of DNA analysis. After 15 years and much digging it has proved impossible to meet the 8,000 “men and boys” quota (even by splitting up human remains and treating a few bones as a “case”, or implicitly as…