Swiss independent journalists’ association, Swiss Propaganda Research, has disclosed the background of four key events during the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, including Srebrenica. The conclusions drawn by Swiss analysts are significant because they focus on staged events which largely determined the formulation of Western policies contrary to the fundamental interests of…
Prof. Michael Mandel: The ICTY Calls It ‘Genocide’
Late Prof. Michael Mandel’s classical deconstruction of ICTY’s genocide argument as articulated in the Krstić judgement. The analysis is applicable to subsequent ICTY Srebrenica “genocide” judgements as well. On August 2, 2001, Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ruled that the events at Srebrenica in July 1995 constituted…
Edward S. Herman: The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre (2005)
“Srebrenica” has become the symbol of evil, and specifically Serb evil. It is commonly described as “a horror without parallel in the history of Europe since the Second World War” in which there was a cold-blooded execution “of at least 8,000 Muslim men and boys.” [1] The events in question took place in or near…
Edward S. Herman: Stacy Sullivan on Milosevic and Genocide (2004)
There is, of course, a cabaret actress Stacy Sullivan, but the subject of Prof. Herman’s article is a political activist-cum-journalist who was also prominent under that name in the 1990’s and early 2000’s when she was reporting and commenting on the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo. Her 27 February 2004 article, Milosevic and genocide: Has…
Phillip Corwyn: Foreword to THE SREBRENICA MASSACRE (Evidence, Context, Politics), edited by Edward S. Herman
Phillip Corwyn was the UN’s highest ranking civilian official in Bosnia in July 1995 when Srebrenica fell to the Bosnian Serbs. That makes his direct assessment of the chain of events which led to Srebrenica and their aftermath all the more historically pertinent. On July 11, 1995, the town of Srebrenica fell to the Bosnian…
ICTY “hanging judge” Schomburg as an advocate of fair trial standards
The “hanging judge” monicker from the title is perhaps an exaggeration. If so, very likely the only reason for that is that the ICTY Statute does not provide for a death sentence, which is not to say that some highly suspicious and convenient deaths may not have been engineered within its facilities. If the possibility…
Geoffroy Lorin de la Grandmaison: International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the forensic pathologist and ethics
French forensic medicine specialist Geoffroy de la Grandmaison points out numerous issues with the Srebrenica forensic picture. From the summary of the academic article that follows: “Forensic pathologists involved in the ICTY missions could be subjected to ethical tensions. In order to study the nature of such tensions, review of the literature and analysis of forensic material available…
Trial/Appellate chamber rotation at ICTY
Another serious deficiency in the way the Hague Tribunal works. One of the more questionable features of ICTY judicial practice is that there is no wall of separation between the Trial and Appellate chambers. That means that judges are simply rotated between the two chambers. The same individual may be a trial judge in one…
Srebrenica, just the facts
In 2017 we published a short essay, “Srebrenica, just the facts.” A review of its contents discloses that as an overview of Srebrenica it is just as pertinent and reliable today as it was when it originally was put out. In the essay, all the major issues involving Srebrenica are discussed and our position is,…
Unwrapping the riddle of Srebrenica
Churchill’s famous dictum about the Soviet Union, that it was “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma,” is arguably just as applicable to Srebrenica July 11 this year was the twenty-fifth anniversary of that landmark event of the Yugoslav wars which the late Prof. Edward Hermann, speaking somewhat less poetically than Churchill, had…