As noted by Ronald W. Cox, editor of “Class, Race, and Corporate Power,” the journal where this article by University of Arizona history Professor David Gibbs was published, “[i]t should be recalled that last year, the regime of Bashir Assad was widely believed to be committing genocide in Syria, and in 2011, Muammar Gaddafi was…
Tiphaine Dickson and Aleksandar Jokic — Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil: The unsightly Milosevic case
The trial of Slobodan Milošević at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia is widely regarded in enlightened legal and intellectual circles as a sham. The authors of this scholarly article argue that “to ignore evil is to cause it to cease to exist, thought the ancients, and so, perhaps, think those who accuse…
Jovan Milojevich and Peter Beattie — The Pull of Humanitarian Interventionism: Examining the Effects of Media Frames and Political Values on People’s Choice of Resolution
Although not explicitly mentioned, Srebrenica is firmly embedded in the background of this article. Srebrenica has become inseparable from the humanitarian intervention doctrine (R2P) elaborated over the last two decades. The latter could hardly have acquired such seemingly irresistible forcefulness but for the impetus given to it by the Srebrenica narrative. That narrative has thus…
George Pumphrey: Srebrenica Dutchbat Eyewitnesses
One of the abiding mysteries of the Srebrenica controversy is the seemingly colossal failure of the institutions investigating it, most notably the Hague Tribunal (ICTY), to make good use of about 300 Dutch peace-keepers who were stationed in the enclave at the time of its fall on July 11, 1995. They were the closest thing…
Edward Herman: Srebrenica — The Star Witness
A review of Germinal Chivikov’s book Srebrenica: The Star Witness (orig. Srebrenica: Der Kronzeuge, 2009, transl. by John Laughland) – “a devastating indictment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).” The late professor Edward Herman reviews a meticulous critique of key Srebrenica evidence provided by witness-participant Drazen Erdemovic and points out some of…
George Pumphrey: Srebrenica: On the Road between “Genocide” and Dayton
George Pumphrey is a thoroughgoing researcher of the phenomenon that has come to be known as “Srebrenica” and also an incisive critic of the received narrative that surrounds it. His mastery of the subject is impressive. The texts that follow were written by him between 1999 and 2015. The fact that Srebrenica is an…
Research and Documentation Center data on Srebrenica victims, 1992 – 1996
The Sarajevo based Research and Documentation Center (Istraživačko dokumentacioni centar, or IDC) and its director Mirsad Tokača have made a significant contribution to clarifying many residual issues concerning the conflict in Bosnia during the 1990s. One of the most important of these issues is the number of victims. By using for the most part credible…
Radio Nederland on the Fakovići village massacre
There are relatively few reports in the Western media about systematic and sustained attacks by the Sarajevo-directed Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ABH) from Srebrenica on the surrounding Serbian villages and settlements and the resulting mass murder and expulsion of Serbian inhabitants. That is understandable, because if such information were widely disseminated it could seriously…
ICTY: A political agenda driven court
Public statements that follow by ICTY judges Claude Jorda and Antonio Cassese unequivocally expose the political character of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Neither political sophistication nor legal training are required in order to recognize the professionally problematic character of their remarks. Be it noted that neither of the potential defendants referred…
The “Srebrenica Massacre” Reader
The “massacre of Srebrenica” is alleged to have been carried out by Bosnian Serb troops in the Bosnian Muslim enclave of that name in July 1995. It is possibly the “propaganda cow” that has given the most milk in the aftermath of the wars in the Balkans in the 1990s. According to the well-known narrative,…