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
Dr. Dušan Dunjić’s expert witness forensic Report in the Karadžić case (2012)
Defense forensic expert witness Dušan Dunjić’s submission in the Karadžić case in 2012 pinpoints numerous shortcomings in the procedures adopted by the international team of pathologists and forensic specialists who were engaged to conduct exhumations at Srebrenica-related burial sites 1996 – 2001. Not the least of them is active participation of ICTY prosecutor Peter McCloskey…
DNA evidence and its uses in ICTY Srebrenica cases (2011)
It is time for some serious attention to be given to the important but largely neglected issue of DNA analysis. After 15 years and much digging it has proved impossible to meet the 8,000 “men and boys” quota (even by splitting up human remains and treating a few bones as a “case”, or implicitly as…
G. Lorin de la Grandmaison and M. Durigon: Forensic investigations of mass graves and their limitations
War crimes perpetrated during conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and Kosovo prompted investigations of mass graves for the purposes of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). In spite of natural and methodological boundaries, these investigations were able to identify the victims and uncover important clues relevant to court’s task. However, it is…
ICTY and the forensic pathologist
In this study some serious issues concerning the integrity of the work performed by forensic pathologists engaged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) are highlighted. Since 1991, war crimes in the former Yugoslavia have been the subject of several international medico-legal investigations of mass graves within the framework of inquiries led…
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the forensic pathologist and ethics
Dr Geoffroy Lorin de la Grandmaison is professor at the University Versailles Saint Quentinen-Yvelines, France. He is a court licenced forensic specialist in France and has authored several books on topics related to his profession, including “Le guide des enquêtes décès,” Editeur : Eska, 2011. His analysis of the ethical tensions faced by pathologists and…
Srebrenica Autopsy Reports: Nova Kasaba exhumation site
NOVA KASABA Exhumations took place in September of 1999. With respect to the distribution of injuries, the human remains in Nova Kasaba exhibit a somewhat different picture. Here, the number of injuries caused by bullets and those that were caused by metal fragments of various kinds are about equal. Also notable is the number…
ICTY AUTOPSY REPORTS
Summary The posting of these Srebrenica Autopsy Reports prepared by ICTY forensic teams which between 1996 and 2001 conducted exhumations throughout the Srebrenica area wherever the existence of execution victims’ mass graves was suspected is an event of extraordinary importance to scholars and researchers. This is the only physical evidence of the crime alleged to…