This is the first Srebrenica demilitarization agreement signed in April 1993 (the second was concluded a fortnight later and also included the neighboring enclave of Žepa) providing for the handover of weapons and cessation of use of Srebrenica enclave as a platform for launching military attacks, in return for halting the Serbian offensive. The terms…
ICMP: The unseen evidence
One of the key evidentiary issues that arose during several ICTY Srebrenica trials was the right of the accused to conduct an independent examination of the forensic evidence used against them. That right exists as a matter of course in all non-political criminal trials in all civilized legal jurisdictions. Specifically, that is the right of…
Srebrenica July 1995 refugee statistics
The documents that follow are regularly disregarded, but they are crucial for a realistic assessment of Srebrenica Lobby claims. The World Health Organization recorded 34,341 Srebrenica refugees in Tuzla as of July 29, 1995, and the UN reported a higher total of 35,632 refugees on August 4, 1995, as more of them streamed in from various…
Popović judgment analysis: Does DNA help the faltering Srebrenica lobby? (2010)
Although originally published in 2010, this analysis of ICTY’s trial judgment in the Popović case is as pertinent today as when it was written. In particular because of legislation to ban “Srebrenica genocide denial” that is pending before the Canadian parliament. Interestingly, the same Srebrenica lobby outfit that unsuccessfully attempted to ban criticism of “Srebrenica…
Lt. Col. Vinko Pandurević’s July 15 1995 Special Combat Report
The devil is in the details, as the saying goes. The document below is one such detail which calls into question a fabricated narrative and makes it appear unsustainable. Lt. Col. Pandurević, commander of the Zvornik Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army dispatched a Special Combat Report to his superior command protesting the concentration of…
Human Rights Watch on the fall of Srebrenica, October 1995
In October 1995, Human Rights Watch issued a report on events that in July 1995 took place in and around Srebrenica. The report is remarkable for its glaring omissions (e.g. the systematic and often lethal violation of the human rights of the Serbian residents of Srebrenica during the preceding three years, which evidently escaped HRW’s…
Sadik Selimović: Serbian commander thwarts lynching of Muslim wounded after the fall of Srebrenica
In the Krstić Trial Judgment, par. 547, the Chamber concludes that “[T]he evidence shows that the VRS sought to kill all the Bosnian Muslim military aged men in Srebrenica, regardless of their civilian or military status.” That categorical statement is contradicted by Dutchbat surgeon Dr. A. A. Schouten and UN Military Observers in Srebrenica, among…
Dutchbat doctor’s observations in Srebrenica in July 1995
This account of experiences in Srebrenica in July 1995 was given soon after the events he witnessed by Dutch doctor and officer of the Dutch battalion, A. A. Schouten. During the critical period, Dr. Schouten was on the spot. On 27 July 1995, while impressions were still fresh and before any external influences could reshape…
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…
U.N. Military Observers debriefing after the fall of Srebrenica
This is a restricted UN document that arguably was never meant to see the light of day. U.N. Military Observers (UNMOs) were stationed in Srebrenica together with Muslims in July 1995, when the Bosnian-Serbs attacked the enclave. UN Military Observers told their debriefers in New York that “the UNMOs were with the [Muslim] refugees for…