ICMP (International Commission on Missing Persons) was founded on then US President Bill Clinton’s initiative in 1996 at the G-7 Conference in Lyon, France. Its ostensible task was to aid governments in disaster relief and other humanitarian missions requiring victim identification. But in fact the bulk of its work was focused on assisting the Prosecution…
George Pumphrey: More evidence on the Srebrenica “numbers game”
Srebrenica scholars owe George Pumphrey a huge debt of gratitude for the results of his prodigious research. He would deserve laurels even if his contribution to Srebrenica scholarship were limited to demonstrating how the alleged 8,000 execution toll was concocted, as he does in the present text, or his discovery that the Hague Tribunal’s convictions…
Trnovo execution video – another low point in the conduct of the Hague Tribunal
The June 2005 showing of an inflammatory, prejudicial and irregularly acquired execution video during a court session at the Hague Tribunal illustrates the fundamental irregularity of the court itself. It also corroborates the assessment of the Hague Tribunal in our new video, appropriately entitled The Rogue Tribunal. The introduction by the prosecution on June 1,…
Ethnic composition of ICMP staff in Bosnia
The International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP) until the recent closing of the Hague Tribunal was in charge of Srebrenica-related forensic work. But as revealed in this December 11, 2007, Financial Times article, its staff was overwhelmingly — to the tune of 93% — composed of Bosnian Muslims. Was it impossible to find qualified staff…
Arrival of Srebrenica refugees in Tuzla in July and early August of 1995
The four documents below reflect the arrival of successive waves of Srebrenica refugees as during July and early August of 1995, after the enclave’s fall on July 11, they reached territory under the control of Sarajevo authorities. The reports, by different neutral agencies and observers, cover the period from July 15 to August 4, 1995.…
BiH State War Crimes Court: When the clone outdoes the original
At one point the State War Crimes Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo was prepared to excuse key prosecution “Srebrenica genocide” witness Dražen Erdemović from appearing in a trial to personally give evidence against the defendants and to be cross-examined, while being ready to accept instead transcripts of evidence given by him in other…
NIOD Report on ABiH signals capabilities
The amount of signals intelligence ABiH listening posts could gather on the Serbs is an issue of great importance in sorting out what was known and when it became known about Serb intentions and operations in July of 1995 around Srebrenica. A separate appendix in the Dutch War Institute Report on Srebrenica prepared for the…
Evidence that “one case” is not “one body”
ICTY Prosecution forensic teams which were conducting exhumations of Srebrenica-related mass graves between 1996 and 2001 produced 3,568 “cases.” In their terminology, a case is a file referring to a distinct collection of body parts, usually accompanied with an autopsy report. Even though the number of “cases” ultimately created falls far short of the alleged 8,000…
How did the 28th Division fare in July of 1995?
In July of 1995, when Serbian forces began their offensive in Eastern Bosnia, the 28th Division of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina was illegally stationed in the UN protected enclave of Srebrenica. As of July 5, 1995, before the offensive started, it had the strength of 5,037 officers and men. On July 28, 1995,…
ICTY summary of Srebrenica events
The ICTY summary of Srebrenica events as allegedly established in the various Srebrenica trials at the Hague is not a professionally written executive synopsis of the evidence, but a PR puff piece. The facts presented on this website refute every one of its major assertions, or at least cast sufficient reasonable doubt to invalidate it…