The “Srebrenica massacre” is the greatest triumph of propaganda to emerge from the Balkan wars…..It is the symbol of Serb ‘evil’ and Bosnian Muslim ‘victimhood’, and the justice of the Western dismantling of Yugoslavia and intervention there at many levels, including a bombing war and colonial occupations of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo.— Edward S. Herman, (R.I.P.)…
“Srebrenica genocide” narrative bites the dust
The phoney “genocide” in Srebrenica marks its twenty-seventh anniversary on 11 July this year. As politically convenient fabrications go, it must be admitted that it has been extraordinarily effective in serving the purposes for which it was created, but this year’s rather low key observances suggest that it is at the end of its cycle.…
Evidence of enormous combat losses suffered by the 28th Division column after the fall of Srebrenica
The extent of the legitimate combat losses of the 28th Division column which conducted a breakout from Srebrenica to Tuzla needs to be sorted out. The armed column traversed about 60 km of territory under Serb control and in the process ran into numerous Serb ambushes. Column losses were never considered as a separate category…
ICTY Srebrenica Autopsy reports
For twenty-five years autopsy reports have been the only tangible evidence in existence of what passes as the “Srebrenica narrative”. Between 1996 and 2001 those reports were prepared by the forensic experts of the Office of the Prosecutor of the Hague Tribunal. Technically, the task of those experts was to conduct exhumations of mass graves…
Milosevic trial synopsis: DUTCHBAT Deputy Commander Robert Franken saw no executions in Srebrenica
Col. Robert Franken was deputy commander of the UN peace-force unit stationed in Srebrenica in 1994 and 1995, in period preceding its fall to Serbian forces in July 1995. The commander, Col. Thomas Karremans, for reasons never adequately explained, was never called to fully testify before the Hague Tribunal. His only brief appearance was in…
Srebrenica military draft order belies “demilitarization”
The “demilitarization” of military forces in the Srebrenica enclave under Sarajevo’s command, agreed on in April and May 1933, was a sham. That was recognized even by ICTY in the Krstić judgment, par. 24: “The Trial Chamber heard credible and largely uncontested evidence of a consistent refusal by the Bosnian Muslims to abide by the…
Column survivors’ statements speak of thousands of combat casualties
While there is no doubt that up to a thousand Bosnian Muslim prisoners were illegally executed in the immediate aftermath of the fall of Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, there is a larger picture which is systematically obscured and downplayed. One of the elements of that picture are combat deaths on both sides in relative…
New “Srebrenica Historical Project” book by Andy Wilcoxson
Srebrenica Historical Project is pleased to announce the publication of “Joint criminal enterprise — Why everything you were told about Serbs was wrong” by Andy Wilcoxson. Mr. Wilcoxson’s book covers the background and course of the Yugoslav crisis in the 1990s, up to and including Kosovo. It deals extensively with allegations concerning Srebrenica. The copiously…
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…
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…