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…
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…
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…
Muslim military-age males captured but not executed by Serb forces between 11 and 17 July 1995
In the Krstić case, the chamber articulated a very clear position on this point. The chamber’s view of Srebrenica executions in par. 546 imposes strict evidentiary standards and leaves it little room for manoeuvre: “The Trial Chamber is ultimately satisfied that murders and infliction of serious bodily or mental harm were committed with the intent…
Srebrenica survivors’ witness statements (July 1995)
The first of the two documents (Srebrenica witness statements July 1995) is a summary of debriefings of surviving members of the 28th Division armed column which carried out a military formation-style breakout from the enclave of Srebrenica to the nearest Sarajevo-controlled territory in Tuzla, about 60 kilometers away. Along the way, the column had numerous…
Realistically Estimating the Number of Srebrenica Massacre Victims
[The knowing and deliberate conflation of battle casualties sustained by the 28th Division during its breakout from Srebrenica to Tuzla, in the days following the fall of Srebrenica on July 11 1995, with execution victims is a key component of the deceptive official Srebrenica narrative, and it is also perhaps the most cynical. It uses…
Legitimate combat losses in July 1995 and their impact on the Srebrenica narrative (2009)
It seems that the summer of 2009 has been none too kind to the “Srebrenica genocide affirmers” [to coin a phrase]. Some common sense questions about their position have been raised and it has been the topic of professional skepticism from the most unexpected quarters. Serious cracks are appearing in the Srebrenica genocide narrative. On…
Analysis of 28th Division column combat and other losses in July 1995
In July of 1995 a fully equipped division of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina was illegally stationed in the nominally demilitarized and internationally protected enclaves of Srebrenica and Žepa. For reasons that still remain unclear, instead of resisting the Serbian advance on the Srebrenica enclave, the division, joined by several thousand mostly male civilians,…