The “massacre of Srebrenica” is alleged to have been carried out by Bosnian Serb troops in the Bosnian Muslim enclave of that name in July 1995. It is possibly the “propaganda cow” that has given the most milk in the aftermath of the wars in the Balkans in the 1990s. According to the well-known narrative,…
JULY ’95 SREBRENICA WITNESS STATEMENTS (ICTY archival document 00464515)
Reports of legitimate Muslim column combat losses. There are numerous statements by survivors of the BiH Army 28th Division column which conducted the armed breakout from the Srebrenica enclave in July 1995 and engaged in combat clashes with Serbian forces which confirm the resulting casualties sustained by the column. Such casualties are legitimate combat losses.…
Joyce van de Bildt: Srebrenica – a Dutch national trauma
ABSTRACT: “The Srebrenica genocide of 1995 and the failure of Dutch peacekeeping troops to protect the enclave have brought about a lingering, painful national debate in the Netherlands. Almost two decades after the fall of Srebrenica, the issue remains sensitive in Dutch society. From the extensive amount of Dutch writing, analyses and investigations into what…
Lt. Col. Peter Jan de Vin, Royal Netherlands Marine Corps: Srebrenica – “The impossible choices of a Commander.”
The text below is the author’s Master of Military Studies paper presented in 2008 at the US Marine Corps Command and Staff College. The author is a Dutch officer, presumably training in the US as a NATO exchange student. The paper is not remarkable either in its analysis or its conclusions, but it faithfully reflects…
Neil Clark: The Milosevic trial is a travesty
The Hague Tribunal is the principal enabler of the Srebrenica propaganda narrative. Though British journalist Neil Clark deals here mainly with some aspects of the Milošević trial and only cursorily with Srebrenica, he hits the nail in the head because he calls into question the credibility of the Tribunal itself and its procedures, regardless of…
Kravica: Some victims are more equal than others
Each January 7, the Orthodox Christmas day marks the anniversary of the 1993 attack on the Serbian village of Kravica committed by Muslim forces from Srebrenica under the command of Naser Orić. Several dozen villagers were killed in the attack, the remaining Serbian population was forced to flee to safety, and many homes were pillaged, demolished…
“Funding justice” – a comparative analysis (2008)
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has been held up as a model of international justice in situations where for a variety of reasons it is thought that delivering justice is beyond the capacity of domestic legal systems. The author, Rupert Skilbeck, is a barrister with international tribunal experience in Bosnia, Cambodia, and…
Nathan Dershowitz: The doctrine of Joint Criminal Enterprise in the jurisprudence of ICTY
Lecture delivered by attorney Nathan Dershowitz at the International Symposium on Srebrenica and ICTY at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow in April 2009. The longstanding principle of nullum crimen sine lege — holding that a person should not be held criminally responsible for conduct that was not criminal at the time of the…
Edward S. Herman & David Peterson: The New York Times on the Yugoslavia Tribunal – A Study in total propaganda service (2004)
Anybody reading “Not Guilty: Report of the Commission of Inquiry Into the Charges Made Against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials” (1937), written by a group chaired by John Dewey, can only be struck by the frequent parallels between Soviet and ICTY principles and court procedure.The Dewey Commission stressed the political and public relations function…
Jovana Pavlovic: ICTY – Power over justice
This thesis examines the way that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is politicized. This thesis begins with an explanatory theoretical framework of two schools of International Relations: realism and cosmopolitanism. Those two schools of thought outline how agents function in the International arena of anarchy, eminently states. In this thesis, we will…