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
2004 Republika Srpska Srebrenica Commission’s questionable report annulled by parliament
The government of the Republic of Srpska was ordered in 2003 by Bosnia’s then High representative, Paddy Ashdown, to form a commission to report on some events “in and around Srebrenica” in July of 1995. The order was triggered by a lawsuit filed by the survivors of 49 missing Moslems who – quite understandably –…
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…
Background sources on the “Srebrenica: a town betrayed” controversy (2011)
After the airing of Ole Flyum and David Hebditch’s documentary “Srebrenica: A Town Betrayed” in 2010, first in Norway, then in Sweden, the international Srebrenica Lobby was outraged. It did not matter that the main feature of the documentary was not advocacy for one side in the Bosnian conflict (1992-1995), as was the case with…
The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph: Two contemporaneous Srebrenica reports, side by side
These two successively published reports in the London “Guardian” and the “Daily Telegraph” are eloquently paradigmatic of the propaganda hype that has plagued media reporting about Srebrenica since July 1995. The July 25 1995 article, filed by “Guardian” diplomatic editor Ian Black, is replete with speculation about the alleged dire fate of 7,000 missing persons…
Republika Srpska’s First Srebrenica Report (2002)
Republika Srpska’s “Srebrenica Report” published in 2002 is a textbook example of ill-conceived PR, which deservedly fell flat on its face. Sloppily written and poorly corroborated and argued, it failed to convince anybody, but it did draw the attention and outrage of the Bosnia High Commissioner at the time, Jeremy Ashdown. Ashdown ordered the authorities…
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…
Edward S. Herman: The U.S. Media Coverage of Srebrenica
By the time of the “Srebrenica massacre” in July 1995 the U.S. (and British) media had already adopted what was effectively a party line on the Bosnian and other conflicts in the Balkans, according to which the Serbs were aggressors engaged in “ethnic cleansing” in the interest of a “Greater Serbia.” This gravitation to a…