Video recordings of Hotel Fontana meetings in Bratunac on July 11 and 12 1995 is key ignored evidence expunged not only from the official Srebrenica narrative, but largely missing as well in court proceedings at the Hague. It obviously suits the prosecution to side-line this evidence, but surprisingly the defense also has been none too…
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…
Balkan “genocides” are not to be questioned
Never mind the vile practice of “genocide denial,” it seems that the exuberant practice of genocide affirmation is now sweeping the Balkans. Genocide accusations are, it would seem, the latest fashion spreading out of the Balkans. On December 5, a former minister in the “government” of NATO occupied and administered Kosovo, Ivan Todosijevic, who happens…
Hannes Hofbauer: Judiciary as continuation of warfare — how the West uses Srebrenica to implement thought-crime legislation
Remarks read by the author at the Banja Luka Srebrenica Conference on April 13, 2019. The battle over Srebrenica in the 1990s was part of the Bosnian civil war, which had been brutally waged from both the Serb and the Muslim side. To use the definition of genocide exclusively for the killing that took place…
Ann Garrison: “Denying” the Srebrenica Genocide Because It’s Not True – an Interview with Diana Johnstone (2015)
Saturday, July 11th, was the official 20th anniversary of what is called the “Srebrenica Massacre” and “the Srebrenica Genocide,” when Muslim men were killed by Serbian forces in the Bosnian civil war of 1992 to 1995. The Western consensus about what happened at Srebrenica is, like the official history of the Rwandan massacres, disputed by academics, journalists…
Aleksandar Jokic*: Conventional wisdom about Yugoslavia and Rwanda — Methodological perils and moral implications
While ostensibly a response to a critique, the main goal of this Article is to demonstrate how easily conventional wisdom, usually shaped by the media and politics, can corrupt scholarship when it is simply presupposed by those engaged in what should be an academic polemic, yet often also includes ‘activism in scholarship’. The examples of…
ICTY’s evidence for Srebrenica genocide
Genocide is incontestably the central issue in all Srebrenica trials at ICTY. It is the essence of the “conventional wisdom” on the subject of Srebrenica. It is also the principal conclusory emanation of the controversial history writing project that the Hague Tribunal has taken upon itself, arguably while overstepping the legitimate mandate of a proper…
Andy Wilcoxson: The politics of genocide
On July 11th the ICTY Appeals Chamber reversed Radovan Karadzic’s acquittal on genocide charges related to seven municipalities in Bosnia where the original Trial Chamber had ruled that there was no evidence of genocidal intent. The Appeals Chamber acknowledged that “that Article 4(2) of the Statute defines genocide to encompass any of certain acts ‘committed with…
K. Dekleva and J. Post: “Genocide in Bosnia: The Case of Dr. Radovan Karadzic”
“From 1992 to 1995 the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina experienced a war of genocidal proportions between the Bosnian Serbs, the Bosnian Croats, and the Bosnian Muslims. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has indicted Dr. Radovan Karadzic-former President of the Bosnian Serb Republic, psychiatrist, and poet-as a suspected war criminal for his role in…
Professor William Schabas: Was there genocide in Srebrenica?
Canadian law professor and expert in genocide studies William Schabas articulated his dilemma after the Krstić judgment was pronounced in 2001. After pointing out the Trial Chamber’s apparent willingness in the Krstić case to “accept the Prosecutor’s contention that the intent in killing the men and boys of military age was to eliminate the [Srebrenica] community as…