The important issue of how many Srebrenica enclave residents survived the UN-protected zone’s fall to Serbian forces on July 11, 1995, has been left largely unexamined. Yet, that could provide important clues about the possible number of victims by subtracting the number of survivors from a reliably estimated number of total residents. The general consensus…
Intelwire Srebrenica Cables
This is a collection of declassified and obviously edited cables concerning Srebrenica roughly in July 1995. We post them for historical research purposes, whatever they may be worth. Srebenica Cables
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the forensic pathologist and ethics
Dr Geoffroy Lorin de la Grandmaison is professor at the University Versailles Saint Quentinen-Yvelines, France. He is a court licenced forensic specialist in France and has authored several books on topics related to his profession, including “Le guide des enquêtes décès,” Editeur : Eska, 2011. His analysis of the ethical tensions faced by pathologists and…
Demilitarization of the UN protected zone of Srebrenica
[The never implemented demilitarization of the UN protected zone in Srebrenica is a key component of the conditions which led to the dénouement of July of 1995. As shown in the text which follows, which is a chapter in the monograph of Srebrenica Historical Project entitled “Srebrenica: the deconstruction of a virtual genocide”, the failure…
Srebrenica Autopsy Reports: Nova Kasaba exhumation site
NOVA KASABA Exhumations took place in September of 1999. With respect to the distribution of injuries, the human remains in Nova Kasaba exhibit a somewhat different picture. Here, the number of injuries caused by bullets and those that were caused by metal fragments of various kinds are about equal. Also notable is the number…
ICTY AUTOPSY REPORTS
Summary The posting of these Srebrenica Autopsy Reports prepared by ICTY forensic teams which between 1996 and 2001 conducted exhumations throughout the Srebrenica area wherever the existence of execution victims’ mass graves was suspected is an event of extraordinary importance to scholars and researchers. This is the only physical evidence of the crime alleged to…
Srebrenica survivors’ witness statements (July 1995)
The first of the two documents (Srebrenica witness statements July 1995) is a summary of debriefings of surviving members of the 28th Division armed column which carried out a military formation-style breakout from the enclave of Srebrenica to the nearest Sarajevo-controlled territory in Tuzla, about 60 kilometers away. Along the way, the column had numerous…
ICMP status agreement with signed the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1998)
In April of 1998, the International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP) signed a formal Agreement with the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina defining the scope of its activities and status of its personnel. The Agreement grants ICMP and its personnel and their families on Bosnian soil broad immunity and diplomatic status in conformity with the…
Srebrenica’s impact on US foreign policy
“How the Srebrenica Massacre Redefined US Foreign Policy,” by Prof. David N. Gibbs How the Srebrenica Massacre Redefined US Foreign Policy
Report to the French Parliament on Srebrenica [in French], (2001)
Report to the French Parliament on Srebrenica (2001)