Never mind the vile practice of “genocide denial,” it seems that the exuberant practice of genocide affirmation is now sweeping the Balkans. Genocide accusations are, it would seem, the latest fashion spreading out of the Balkans. On December 5, a former minister in the “government” of NATO occupied and administered Kosovo, Ivan Todosijevic, who happens…
The Sham of the Hague Tribunal: Creating the “evidence”
The text that follows was produced by our colleagues from the Balkan Conflicts Research Team. It is based on the video “The Sham of the Hague Tribunal.” The full video may be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmXiX3RAdI4&feature=youtu.be What formed the ICTY’s view of events? It seems to have been based on the narrative of the BBC series “The…
Contemporaneous US Government consultations were strangely silent on Srebrenica “genocide”
Newly declassified US government documents contemporaneous with Srebrenica events in July of 1995, contrary to expectation, contain no hint that an unfolding war crime of genocidal magnitude was on the radar of high government officials and intelligence and other agencies. At the November 1995 Bosnian peace conference in Dayton, Ohio, four months after the…
More on confessions at ICTY: A different view
Much of what passes for key evidence at ICTY can be traced back to the confessions of accused persons. An example is Momir Nikolic, whose “statement of facts” attached to his plea bargain with the Prosecution in 2002 finally lent an appearance of substance to the reburial narrative. The reburial story was launched originally to explain…
ICMP and its strange absence from Rwanda
It is a little noticed fact that the International Commission for Missing Persons [ICMP] which has been a key component of the prosecution’s Srebrenica case at the Hague, was completely absent from the investigation of the Rwandan slaughter, which had taken place around the same time. The issue to our knowledge has never been raised…
Peter Handke Nobel Prize Uproar Overlooks Evidence of Flawed Srebrenica Conclusions
The awarding of the Nobel Prize for literature to Austrian writer Peter Handke provoked some visceral reactions. The objectors were not at all motivated by the aesthetic qualities of the literature Handke produced, but entirely by their rejection of some of the political positions that the author had taken. A major “argument” raised against Handke…
Edward S. Herman: Poor Marlise — Her Old Allies Are Now Attacking the Tribunal and Even Portraying the Serbs as Victims
This vintage piece by the late Prof. Edward Herman, an authoritative and astute critic of the Hague Tribunal, was written shortly after the publication of former ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte’s memoir “The Hunt: Me and the War Criminals.” In this review of Del Ponte’s book, which appeared in Global Research in 2008, Prof. Herman…
ICTY Exaggerates Number of Prisoners Captured by Bosnian-Serbs in Srebrenica Operation
If our associate Andy Wilcoxson is correct in his critical assessment of the evidence at the disposal of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia regarding the number of Muslims captured by Serbian forces in the immediate aftermath of the fall of Srebrenica on 11 July 1995, the implications are staggering. To name just…
Are the Dutch rethinking Srebrenica? (2011)
It is hard to say to what extent the Dutch text which follows in English translation is a reflection of the July 5, 2011 decision of the Court of Appeals in the Hague in the tort action brought against the Dutch state on behalf of Srebrenica victims Nuhanović and Mustafić. The appellate chamber in that…
ICTY intercept evidence mindgames
The public are largely unaware of it, but “intercept evidence” is a major component of prosecution’s Srebrenica case. It is also a major locus of fabricated or, at any rate, grossly unreliable evidence. Besides “satellite photos” (which turned out not to be that at all and are unavailable for expert scrutiny anyway), autopsy reports prepared…