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 methodology, IDC has convincingly shown that in total just under 100,000 people from all three major ethnic groups lost their lives. IDC has also done excellent work categorizing the victims not just by ethnicity, but also sex, status, age, and a number of other important attributes. Mr. Tokača has been harshly criticized by members of his own Muslim community for allegedly downplaying the number of victims from that group. If he has done that, though it is doubtful, he has more than compensated for it by adhering faithfully to the prescribed canons of the Srebrenica narrative, at least for the critical year of 1995. But though he thus may have accommodated the passionate demands of his community with regard to the very controversial number of Srebrenica victims, it does not diminish the serious attention that his work merits as a whole. Unfortunately, IDC’s activity currently seems to be in suspension and its website appears to have been removed from the internet.
- Radio Nederland on the Fakovići village massacre
- George Pumphrey: Srebrenica: On the Road between “Genocide” and Dayton