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…
Ethnic composition of ICMP staff in Bosnia
The International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP) until the recent closing of the Hague Tribunal was in charge of Srebrenica-related forensic work. But as revealed in this December 11, 2007, Financial Times article, its staff was overwhelmingly — to the tune of 93% — composed of Bosnian Muslims. Was it impossible to find qualified staff…
What are the Tribunal and ICMP trying to hide?
The comment below has provoked lively responses. One of them is by Canadian barrister Christopher Black. He points out some fundamental flaws in the strategy followed by the Karadžić defence. By acquiescing to the rules for the admission of evidence being turned on their head, Mr. Black seems to be suggesting that Dr. Karadžić is,…
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…
KOZLUK mass grave forensic situation
The Kozluk mass graves were exhumed in July, August, and September 1999. Most of these cases consist only of body fragments, i.e. a total of 184 autopsy reports. Of this number, ICTY forensic experts could not determine the cause of death in 176 cases, which comprises more than 95.7% of the total. Here as well,…
GLOGOVA mass grave forensic situation
Several mass graves were found at this location, some of which contained the remains of two to three bodies, while others contained a much larger number. Almost all the mass graves at this location were exhumed during September and October 1999, with the exception of the mass grave denoted as Glogova 1, which was exhumed…
DNA evidence and its uses in Srebrenica cases (2011)
[It is time for some serious attention 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”, and thus implicitly as the equivalent…
Forensic analysis of ICTY post-mortem reports
The subject of this analysis are the results of the forensic analysis performed by expert teams of the Hague Tribunal [ICTY] between 1995 and 2002 at several locations in the region of Eastern Bosnia when they exhumed and examined hundreds of human remains presumed to belong to Srebrenica victims. Post-mortem examinations were conducted on the…
Sloppy exhumations are the backbone of the ICTY forensic case
The letter reproduced below, written by forensic anthropologist C. E. Moore II, who took part in the work of forensic exhumations teams sent to the Srebrenica area by ICTY Office of Prosecutor in 1996, is an important and revealing document. Our own analysis of ICTY’s Srebrenica forensic work has disclosed numerous problems which cast serious…