[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,…