With mind boggling audacity – insolence would perhaps be a more suitable word – the nations which have systematically practiced the extermination of other nations and cultures, and which even gave their odious practice its universally recognised name – genocide – are now in the forefront of accusing others, consisting mainly of their historical victims,…
Phoney “tribunals” perpetuate historical fictions
Reading “The Politics of Genocide” [2010] by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson one can easily assimilate their critique of the brazen misapplication of the term “genocide” to events in Bosnia (Srebrenica) and Kosovo, especially if the reader was familiar with those issues and the modus operandi of the Hague Tribunal, the place where the…
Prof. Milenko Kreća’s view of the Genocide convention and its applicability in the Bosnia v. Serbia ICJ litigation
Dr. Milenko Kreća is professor of international law at the University of Belgrade and was a judge on the International Court of Justice panel which considered Bosnia and Herzegovina’s application to ICJ to find Serbia guilty of genocide for certain events which took place on its territory during the conflict in the 1990s. Kreća’s separate and…
Prof. Michael Mandel: The ICTY Calls It ‘Genocide’
Late Prof. Michael Mandel’s classical deconstruction of ICTY’s genocide argument as articulated in the Krstić judgement. The analysis is applicable to subsequent ICTY Srebrenica “genocide” judgements as well. On August 2, 2001, Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ruled that the events at Srebrenica in July 1995 constituted…
Edward S. Herman: The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre (2005)
“Srebrenica” has become the symbol of evil, and specifically Serb evil. It is commonly described as “a horror without parallel in the history of Europe since the Second World War” in which there was a cold-blooded execution “of at least 8,000 Muslim men and boys.” [1] The events in question took place in or near…
Edward S. Herman: Stacy Sullivan on Milosevic and Genocide (2004)
There is, of course, a cabaret actress Stacy Sullivan, but the subject of Prof. Herman’s article is a political activist-cum-journalist who was also prominent under that name in the 1990’s and early 2000’s when she was reporting and commenting on the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo. Her 27 February 2004 article, Milosevic and genocide: Has…
William A. Schabas: State Policy as an Element of International Crimes
This academic article on the important issue of whether or not state policy is an inherent element of genocide was published by Prof. Schabas in 2008. It is an implicit response to ICTY Appelate Chamber’s finding in Krstić that “the existence of a plan or policy is not a legal ingrediaent of of the crime…
Prof. Michael Mandel: The ICTY Calls It ‘Genocide’
The late Prof. Michael Mandel’s incisive critique of the Krstić judgment is always worth reviewing for the insight it gives into the bizzare workings of the ICTY “judicial” machinery. It is also a good reminder of the judges’ shoddy judicial scholarship that has marred ICTY’s handling of Srebrenica cases from the beginning, starting with these…
George Szamuely: Defining Genocide Down – The Case of Srebrenica
Srebrenica is the main business of the Hague Tribunal and establishing genocide in Srebrenica is the court’s principal political task. Prof. George Szamuely closely examines the Tribunal’s questionable legal rationale used in arguing its Srebrenica genocide case. Genocide, which had not featured at Nuremburg, is the pride and glory of the U.N. tribunals. The International…
Milošević and genocide: Transcript of Dr Cees Wiebes and Chris Stephen interviewed by Clive Anderson on Radio 5 Live, October 2004
When in early 2000s the Dutch government decided to appoint a commission to investigate what happened in Srebrenica, Dr Cees Wiebes was engaged to research the intelligence background of the subject events. The commission’s comprehensive conclusions were about 7,000 pages long. The final document is known as the NIOD Report, and was published in 2002.…