This video presents many moving testimonies about the suffering of Serbian civilians in the Upper Drina Valley Region, which generally includes Srebrenica. It should be noted that the marauding „Army of Bosnia and Hercegovina” did not target only Serbian villages, but also the Višegrad monument to the Nobel-prize winning author, Ivo Andrić [A Bridge on…
Mirjana — a documentary about the cruelty of the Bosnian war, 1992.
Even in a world where violence is increasingly the norm, some forms of violence stand out by their utter heinousness. One Serbian mother and her nine year-old daughter have been through just such an experience. The girl was raped and then murdered in the presence of her helpless mother. Is that the “path of Allah,”…
Victim testimonies of attacks on Serbian villages around Srebrenica
Widespread and systematic attacks on Serbian settlements which were taking place between 1992 and June 1995 have largely been swept under the rug. It is not exactly a taboo subject, but nobody gets a pat on the back for mentioning it either. These attacks which left just under a thousand recorded deaths and widespread destruction…
Milosevic trial synopsis: DUTCHBAT Deputy Commander Robert Franken saw no executions in Srebrenica
Col. Robert Franken was deputy commander of the UN peace-force unit stationed in Srebrenica in 1994 and 1995, in period preceding its fall to Serbian forces in July 1995. The commander, Col. Thomas Karremans, for reasons never adequately explained, was never called to fully testify before the Hague Tribunal. His only brief appearance was in…
Srebrenica military draft order belies “demilitarization”
The “demilitarization” of military forces in the Srebrenica enclave under Sarajevo’s command, agreed on in April and May 1933, was a sham. That was recognized even by ICTY in the Krstić judgment, par. 24: “The Trial Chamber heard credible and largely uncontested evidence of a consistent refusal by the Bosnian Muslims to abide by the…
Christopher Black: JOINT CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE, WHY EVERYTHING YOU WERE TOLD ABOUT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC AND THE SERBS IS WRONG: A Review. (Srebrenica Historical Project, 2021)
Canadian criminal law attorney Christopher Black, besides being an experienced legal practitioner who has handled cases in international ad hoc tribunals both at the Hague and in Rwanda, maintains a keen interest in the circumstances which brought about the bloody dismemberment of Yugoslavia. Srebrenica is a key component of those complex historical events. The text…
Column survivors’ statements speak of thousands of combat casualties
While there is no doubt that up to a thousand Bosnian Muslim prisoners were illegally executed in the immediate aftermath of the fall of Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, there is a larger picture which is systematically obscured and downplayed. One of the elements of that picture are combat deaths on both sides in relative…