Genocide: - DIIS

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
K: Krstic here.
O: How are you General, sir?
K: I’m great, and you?
O: Thanks to you I am too.
K: Way to go, Chief. And how’s you’re health?
O: It’s fi ne, thank God, it’s fi ne.
K: Are you working down there?
O: Of course we’re working.
K: Good.
O: We’ve managed to catch a few more, either by gunpoint or in mines.
K: Killed them all. God damn it.
O: Everything, everything is going according to plan. Yes.
K: (sic) Single one must be left alive.
O: Everything is going according to plan. Everything.
K: Way to go, Chief. The Turks are probably listening to us. Let them listen, the
motherfuckers.
O: Yeah, let them. 130
While the value of the intercept for the trial remained contentious, the
Krstic judgement clearly affi rms the participation of Obrenovic and his
unit in the massacres at Srebrenica, e.g. the role the Zvornik Brigade had in
detaining, executing and burying the Bosnian Muslim men. 131 The judgement
also quotes from an intercepted conversation between Bosnian Serb
army offi cers to illustrate the level of involvement of Bosnian Serb army
units in this operation. The duty offi cer of Obrenovic’s unit states in the
conversation that “Obrenovic is really engaged to the maximum.” 132
Vidoje Blagojevic is the third army offi cer indicted in the Srebrenica context
for the crime of genocide. 133 According to the indictment, Blagojevic
the whole tape was forged, the Prosecution presented the member of the Bosnian Muslim
army who had intercepted the conversation in question. The Trial Chamber ultimately
did not allow the recording to be entered into evidence. However, this was only due to
procedural reasons so that the Prosecution may try to utilize this tape again in the Obrenovic
case. Cf. Prosecutor v. Krstic, Decision on the Defence Motions to Exclude Exhibits in
Rebuttal and Motion for Continuance, 4 May 2001, paras. 1-26.
131 Prosecutor v. Radislav Krstic (supra note 126), para. 225. Also see paras. 232, 383ff and 623.
132 Prosecutor v. Radislav Krstic (supra note 126), para. 383.
133 Prosecutor v. Vidoje Blagojevic, Initial Indictment of 9 April 2001, confi dential until its un-
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