The little noted and barely commented interview that the ICTY Prosecution’s Chief Investigator Jean Rene-Ruez gave to the journal Cultures & Conflits is very conducive to a better understanding of how Srebrenica evidence was collected and used, as well as the criteria that guided the process. The interview was published in the spring issue of…
Mirsad Tokača’s Bosnian War Crime Atlas: A critical review
A series of articles published in 2009 about the “Bosnian War Crime Atlas,” a major and groundbreaking publication of the Sarajevo based Research and Documentation Center. While some of the Atlas’ many praiseworthy methodological breakthroughs and bold conclusions challenging many standard premises about the war in Bosnia merit respect, it is also beset by a…
UN Commissioner for human rights Henry Wieland fails to locate crime witnesses shortly after the fall of Srebrenica
His British-sounding name notwithstanding, Henry Wieland was a Peruvian career diplomat and UN Commissioner for human rights. In the latter part of July 1995, Wieland was dispatched to Bosnia to investigate reported violations in Srebrenica. He conducted most of his investigation in Tuzla, which was the destination of most Srebrenica refugees, where he had an…
Edward S. Herman: The U.S. Media Coverage of Srebrenica
The late Prof. Edward S. Herman’s study of U.S. media’s deeply biased coverage of Srebrenica has lost none of its incisiveness. The media have evidently discarded the professional tenets of journalism in imitation of the Hague Tribunal, which did the same with the professional norms of jurisprudence. By the time of the “Srebrenica massacre” in…
ICTY Chamber decision on DNA samples
The attached March 19, 2010, Chamber decision in the Karadzic case on defense access to DNA data illustrates perfectly the Hague Tribunal’s skewed concept of “equality of arms” between the parties. Out of about 6,600 alleged DNA matches, in this ruling the Chamber is contemplating the disclosure of at most 300, or about 5%. The…
А. Б. Мезяев: Дело о геноциде
Решение Международного Суда ООН по делу О применении Конвенции о предотвращении преступления геноцида и наказании за него (Босния и Герцеговина против Сербии и Черногории.) Некоторые вопросы фактов и международного права. Замечательные рассуждения проф. А. Б. Мезяева. [1] Краткая история процесса. Проблема юрисдикции Суда. Решение Суда по существу спора (Документы, показания свидетелей и их оценка). Выводы. 26 февраля 2007…
Basic Srebrenica forensic data
The appended graphs reflect the basic forensic picture of Srebrenica. They depict the situation in Srebrenica-related mass graves that between 1996 and 2001 were exhumed and studied by forensic teams dispatched for that purpose by the Prosecution of the Hague Tribunal. The first graph, “Summary analysis of Srebrenica autopsy reports,” is a breakdown of the…
Blast injuries at the alleged execution mass burial site of Ravnice
Ravnice is one of the Srebrenica mass burial sites associated with the Kravica Agricultural Warehouse prisoner shooting incident which occurred on July 13, 1995. The other site associated with the victims of that shooting is Glogova. It would be a logical assumption that execution victims would generally show a similar pattern of injury and that…
Hannes Hofbauer: Judiciary as continuation of warfare — how the West uses Srebrenica to implement thought-crime legislation
Remarks read by the author at the Banja Luka Srebrenica Conference on April 13, 2019. The battle over Srebrenica in the 1990s was part of the Bosnian civil war, which had been brutally waged from both the Serb and the Muslim side. To use the definition of genocide exclusively for the killing that took place…