The “Srebrenica cover-up” story was improvised to explain the embarrassing dearth of bodies of execution victims that became manifest shortly after exhumations began. As late as the Krstić trial judgment in 2001, even the Prosecution friendly Chamber was forced to admit that no satisfactory evidence of a Srebrenica cover-up, involving the massive reburial of bodies…
Phillip Corwin: Foreword to “Srebrenica Massacre”
Phillip Corwin’s assessment of Srebrenica is a document of great historical value. As the highest ranking civilian UN administrator in Bosnia in 1995, Corwin was on the spot and is eminently qualified to state his conclusions. This is Corwin’s Introduction to “Srebrenica Massacre” [ed. by E. Hermann, 2011], downloadable version of which is attached. On…
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH 2 OF SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 808 (1993)
The International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia was established under UN auspices in 1993 in most extraordinary circumstances. There is no provision in the UN Charter which would make the founding of such a court possible. That makes ICTY illegal ab initio. But since political exigencies rather than legal considerations dictated that such a Tribunal…
How false witness Momir Nikolić’s bogus evidence was spun to buttress ICTY Prosecution’s reburial case
Momir Nikolić, assistant security officer in the Bratunac Brigade during the war in Bosnia, was indicted by ICTY for complicity in Srebrenica genocide and brought to the Hague in 2002 to face trial. He was one of several accused who chose to make a plea bargain with the Prosecution. Invariably, those who took that path…
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…
ICTY intercept evidence mindgames
The public are largely unaware of it, but “intercept evidence” is a major component of prosecution’s Srebrenica case. It is also a major locus of fabricated or, at any rate, grossly unreliable evidence. Besides “satellite photos” (which turned out not to be that at all and are unavailable for expert scrutiny anyway), autopsy reports prepared…
ICTY investigations. Interview with Jean-René Ruez (Cultures & Conflits, Spring 2007)
The little noted and barely commented interview that the ICTY Prosecution’s Chief Investigator Jean Rene-Ruez gave to the journal Cultures & Conflits is very conducive to a better understanding of how Srebrenica evidence was collected and used, as well as the criteria that guided the process. The interview was published in the spring issue of…
Mirsad Tokača’s Bosnian War Crime Atlas: A critical review
A series of articles published in 2009 about the “Bosnian War Crime Atlas,” a major and groundbreaking publication of the Sarajevo based Research and Documentation Center. While some of the Atlas’ many praiseworthy methodological breakthroughs and bold conclusions challenging many standard premises about the war in Bosnia merit respect, it is also beset by a…
UN Commissioner for human rights Henry Wieland fails to locate crime witnesses shortly after the fall of Srebrenica
His British-sounding name notwithstanding, Henry Wieland was a Peruvian career diplomat and UN Commissioner for human rights. In the latter part of July 1995, Wieland was dispatched to Bosnia to investigate reported violations in Srebrenica. He conducted most of his investigation in Tuzla, which was the destination of most Srebrenica refugees, where he had an…
ICTY Chamber decision on DNA samples
The attached March 19, 2010, Chamber decision in the Karadzic case on defense access to DNA data illustrates perfectly the Hague Tribunal’s skewed concept of “equality of arms” between the parties. Out of about 6,600 alleged DNA matches, in this ruling the Chamber is contemplating the disclosure of at most 300, or about 5%. The…