The public has been wrongly led to believe that Bosnian-Serbs massacred 8,000 Bosnian-Muslim civilians in a vicious campaign of genocide in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in July of 1995, but documents found in the archives of the UN war crimes Tribunal in The Hague cast serious doubt on these allegations. The Allegation Writing for…
A very odd and unexpected silence regarding the “Srebrenica Genocide”
“Srebrenica Historical Project” associate Andy Wilcoxson has made mincemeat of the claim that Serbian forces captured 7,000 to 8,000 Muslim prisoners in the aftermath of the takeover of Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, which is what they must have done to be able to execute that many, as charged. He demonstrates that viewed in the…
The Tolimir case: Have Hague Tribunal figures any credibility left? (2012)
The Tolimir trial verdict at ICTY [1] generally follows the standard pattern, but some interesting departures should be noted. General Zdravko Tolimir was head of the Department of Security and Intelligence at the Main Staff of the Republika Srpska army during the war in Bosnia. He was only one hierarchical step below General Mladić, and…
George Szamuely, “Bombs for Peace: NATO’s Humanitarian War on Yugoslavia,” 2014
In the late 1990s NATO dropped bombs and supported armed insurgencies in Yugoslavia while insisting that its motives were purely humanitarian and that its only goal was peace. However, George Szamuely argues that NATO interventions actually prolonged conflicts, heightened enmity, increased casualties, and fueled demands for more interventions. Eschewing the one-sided approach adopted by previous…
The genocide issue: Was there demonstrable intent to exterminate all Muslim prisoners?
This is question must be asked if we wish to deal with Srebrenica in a serious manner. In light of the common depiction of events in Srebrenica immediately following July 11th 1995, there are only two ways to characterize the ensuing executions: (1) as a massacre of significant proportions which is a major violation of…