Yvonne McDermott-Federico Cerutti amicus curiae submission in the Karadžić appeal

The appellate proceedings in the Karadžić case have taken a new turn with an amicus curiae application submitted on February 21 2018 to the Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals by two British academics, Dr. Yvonne McDermott and Dr. Federico Cerutti. The submission proposes to test the sustainability of the trial chamber’s conclusion that Radovan…

FRY Memorandum on war crimes committed against the Serbian population of Eastern Bosnia between April 1992 and April 1993

This detailed and abundantly documented Memorandum about war crimes committed against the Serbian population in Eastern Bosnia (municipalities of Bratunac, Skelani, and Srebrenica) was submitted to the Secretary General of the UN by the delegation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on 2 June, 1993. The Memorandum received scant media or political attention amidst numerous…

International Court of Justice appellate verdict on genocide (Croatia v. Serbia, 2015)

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) appellate judgment in the matter of Croatia vs. Serbia, concerning mutual allegations of genocide supposedly committed during the Balkan conflict in the 1990s, is relevant to the issue of genocide as it is posited in the context of Srebrenica. See related text here: http://us.srebrenica-project.org/2018/01/14/international-criminal-justice-and-genocide/ ICJ’s analysis of the sort of evidence…

The NIOD Report

Everyone involved in Srebrenica research is aware of the NIOD Report which was published in 2002 by the Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie [Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, http://www.niod.nl/] in 2002. The Report, which focuses on the tragic events in Srebrenica in July of 1995 is universally regarded as a first rate research and documentation tool.…