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…
ICTY self-promotional farewell video
This video was created by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in late 2017, as the Tribunal was drawing to a close and its few remaining functions were to be taken over by the awkwardly named successor “Mechanism.” The video is more than self-promotional, it is unabashedly self-adulatory. Judge Carmel Agius’ arrogant opening…
Dutch defense minister Joris Voorhoeve’s version of Srebrenica events
Joris Voorhoeve was Netherlands defense minister in July 1995, in the most critical period when Srebrenica-related events were taking place. His view on some of the key issues is significant for a balanced understanding of what happened.
Noam Chomsky About Serbia, Kosovo, Yugoslavia and NATO Wars
A quote from Chomsky: “Almost invariably, they invert the chronology”. And that is just for starters. In this interview with Danilo Mandić, Chomsky answers questions on a broad range of issues pertaining to Western policy in the Balkans, including an incisive comparison of the Coalition Iraq war operation in Falujjah in 2004 and Srebrenica. Serbian subtitles.…
An important but neglected Dutch documentary on Srebrenica
This Dutch documentary about Srebrenica was created in 2002, around the time the NIOD Report came into being, although there are no indications of a link between the two. The documentary is a Dutch television production put together relatively few years after the event and apparently before the rigid official narrative with its intimidating guidelines…
Jonathan Rooper about Srebrenica
Jonathan Rooper is a former BBC editor who has taken an extraordinary interest in Srebrenica. Some of his writings on the subject, focusing on but not confined to what he aptly calls the “Srebrenica numbers game,” is posted elsewhere on this website. Mr. Rooper has kindly agreed to do a video reflecting his view of…
Confessing at the Hague Tribunal
Public confessions of guilt by prisoners charged with various crimes are a standard operating feature at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia [ICTY]. Dramatic and emotional courtroom confessions, accompanied by undignified self-abasement before the chamber and the prosecution, have been made by some high-profile prisoners as well as lower ranking accused. Their groveling,…
“KATEHON” — interview about Srebrenica [2016]
Interview given by Stephen Karganovic, President of Srebrenica Historical Project, to the Russian portal “Katehon” about the current status of Srebrenica research.