Late in 2016, the Rwandan government indicted several senior French Army generals for crimes against humanity, including genocide for their role in the 1994 Rwandan holocaust. Rwanda events do not necessarily tie in with those in Srebrenica, but many rough analogies may be drawn. One potential analogy, subject to the acquisition of further specific evidence,…
Gordon N. Bardos: Trials and Tribulations: Politics as Justice at the ICTY (2013)
“The tribunal’s costs have been astronomical; the final price tag will probably run over $2 billion. Legal scholar and anthropologist Robert Hayden has estimated that the ICTY will have spent about $14 million per individual trial. The ICTY’s budget for 2012–13 was approximately $251 million. By way of comparison, this year’s total annual budget of…
Case Study: The Branjevo/Pilica Execution Site
Chapter from the monograph “ICTY and Srebrenica.” How does ICTY get away with proving mass murder ascending to the level of genocide when the bulk of the evidence does not support many of its factual conclusions? We can try to answer this question by reviewing the evidence which various ICTY chambers used to reach their…
ICMP and how it came about
The International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP) was until recently based in Bosnia and Herzegovina and played a leading role in the collection and analysis of physical evidence of Srebrenica-related events in July of 1995. It has carefully nurtured an image of a professional organization composed of international experts. In “About ICMP” on its website…
Konstantin Kilibarda: Refuting the Srebrenica Myth – An Islamist Perspective
“The international press…made the battle for Srebrenica sound like Stalingrad. There is a kind of dialectical relation between the attention of a great power and the power of the media. It creates a distortion in our work. What I am trying to do, without great success, is to correct this distortion.”– Comments by UN Secretary General…
Case Study: The Kravica Execution Site
Chapter from the monograph “ICTY and Srebrenica.” Besides Branjevo/Pilica, the other major execution site worthy of examination is Kravica, and not just from the quantitative standpoint, although that certainly is a factor because over 1,000 victims are claimed to have been killed and buried there. It is also interesting from an analytical standpoint, largely because…
ICMP: A stocktaking – Missing persons from the armed conflicts of the 1990s
The International Commission of Missing Persons (ICMP) summary report issued in 2014 is a useful tool for sorting out various Srebrenica issues, though it should be read carefully and critically. Information contained elsewhere on this website facilitates such an alert and critical study of this document. ICMP is a major player in creating and sustaining the…
Jean M. Morgan: Proving Genocide – The Role of Forensic Anthropology in Developing Evidence to Convict Those Responsible for Genocide
The article that follows is a textbook example of conclusion-driven “scholarship” which operates independently of the facts and in disregard of any relevant theoretical guidelines. Anthropology can play a role in sorting out a crime scene where homicide is suspected to have been committed, but it plays no role at all in “proving genocide.” The…
Admir Jugo and Sari Wastell: Disassembling the pieces, reassembling the social: the forensic and political lives of secondary mass graves in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Unintentionally but perfectly, the authors illustrate the nature of the pseudo-scholarly drivel that passes for serious analysis of Srebrenica forensic issues. Disassembling the pieces, reassembling the social – The forensic and political lives of secondary mass graves in Bosnia and Herzegovina Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1wn0s24.13
K. Dekleva and J. Post: “Genocide in Bosnia: The Case of Dr. Radovan Karadzic”
“From 1992 to 1995 the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina experienced a war of genocidal proportions between the Bosnian Serbs, the Bosnian Croats, and the Bosnian Muslims. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has indicted Dr. Radovan Karadzic-former President of the Bosnian Serb Republic, psychiatrist, and poet-as a suspected war criminal for his role in…