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fiction. Marlise Simons, “Karadzic Trial Resumes Without Defendant,” New York Times, Oct. 27,
2009. Mariette le Roux, “Lawyer imposed on Karadzic, trial delayed to March, AFP, Nov. 5, 2009;
“Karadzic: Sarajevo and Srebrenica crimes are myths,” BBC News, March 2, 2010. The judges then
postponed the trial again under a decision made by the Appeals Chamber on additional postponement.
Lauren Comiteau, “Karadzic Trial Delayed After Opening Defense Statement,” VOA News,
March 2, 2010.
24. Some victims, who have for years willingly testified whenever asked to do so at the ICTY,
are growing reluctant to do so in Bosnian courts. See Chapter VI.
25. Interview with Nidžara Ahmetašević, editor, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in BiH,
Sarajevo, July 13, 2009.
26. Prosecutor v. Radislav Krstić, Case No. IT-98-33-A, Appeal Judgment, 37 (Apr. 19, 2004).
27. Interview with Dobrila Govedarica, executive director, Open Society Fund BiH, Sarajevo,
Nov. 30, 2006. Conversely, as we note in Chapter IV.D.2, the Tribunal’s failure to conclude that
genocide occurred elsewhere in Bosnia is cause for disappointment among many victims.
28. Interview with Mirsad Tokača, president, Research and Documentation Center Sarajevo,
Sarajevo, Dec. 6, 2006.
29. Interview with Jasna Bakšić Muftić, professor, Faculty of Law, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo,
Nov. 30, 2006.
30. See Chapter IV in this report for a brief discussion of this issue.
31. On July 2, 2008, the Open Society Justice Initiative submitted a Request for Leave to File
an Amicus Curiae Brief in The Prosecutor v. Milan Lukić and Sredoje Lukić (ICTY Case No. IT-98-
32/1-PT). The Justice Initiative requested this leave “in support of the motion filed by the Office of
the Prosecutor seeking leave to amend the second amended indictment against Milan Lukić and
Sredoje Lukić to include charges concerning mass rapes, enslavement, and torture for sexual atrocities
committed in Višegrad, Bosnia-Herzegovina.” The prosecutor’s request to amend to include
sexual violence was denied.
32. Interview with Muharem Murselović, member of Republicka Srpska National Assembly,
president of the RS Parlamentarians Club for the Party for BiH, Banja Luka, July 15, 2009.
33. Eric Stover, The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in The Hague, p. 126 (Univ.
of Pennsylvania Press, 2005).
34. British journalist Ed Vulliamy introduced this phrase in his description of the Bosnian conflict.
See Ed Vulliamy, “Middle Managers of Genocide”, The Nation, June 10, 1996, also available
at http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/bosnia/Vulliamy.html; and Ed Vulliamy, “’Neutrality’ and the
Absence of Reckoning: A Journalist’s Account,” Journal of International Affairs, vol. 52. no. 2, Spring
1999, at 605.
35. Srećko Latal, “Bosnian Serb Leader Shocks Victims’ Families,” Balkan Insight, Sep. 15, 2009,
www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/22220/ (retrieved Feb. 4, 2010). Dodik’s claims came in
the midst of a political crisis marked by efforts of Republika Srpska leaders to further increase the
competencies of the Bosnian Serb entity at the expense of the central government.
36. The quotes by Tokača and Murselović are excerpted from Chapter V, “Truth and Acknowledgment”
of this study.
37. See infra, Chapter V: “Truth and Acknowledgment,” Sec. D (Outreach).
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