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411. Interview with Nerma Jelačić, then director, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in BiH,
Sarajevo, Dec. 1, 2006.
412. Interview with Emir Suljagić, author, Sarajevo, July 14, 2009. As he noted in our interview,
Suljagić had recently made this point in a televised interview on the fourteenth anniversary of the
July 1995 massacre. He summarized the point he had made in the interview as “remembering
Srebrenica but forgetting Bosnia.”
413. Suljagić recalled that when he first learned that Radislav Krstić had been judged guilty of
genocide by the Trial Chamber, he told a journalist who contacted him for comment, “I really don’t
care what you do to this guy.” Id. It was not until he read the Appeals Chamber’s judgment that the
full import of the ruling hit him.
414. Id.
415. Interview with Mirsad Tokača, director, Research and Documentation Center, Sarajevo, July
24, 2009. Even so, Tokača considers the Krstić judgment to be “a big success.” Id.
416. As noted below one of the few defendants who faced the charge of genocide, Slobodan
Milošević, died as his marathon trial neared a conclusion. Others who faced the charge of genocide
or complicity in genocide but whose death terminated proceedings against them include Simo
Drljača, who was killed while resisting arrest in 1997; Milan Kovačević, who died in detention soon
after trial proceedings began; and Momir Talić, whose trial began in January 2002 but who was
granted provisional release for health reasons in September 2002 and died in May 2003.
417. In addition, genocide charges against Momir Nikolić were withdrawn as part of a plea agreement;
the charge of complicity to commit genocide was withdrawn as part of a plea agreement with
Dragan Obrenović.
418. Others who have been tried on charges of genocide and/or complicity to commit genocide
who were acquitted of these charges include Milomir Stakić, Goran Jelisić, Vidoje Blagojević, Duško
Sikirica, and Radoslav Brd¯anin.
419. While Mladić and Karadžić face genocide charges that encompass municipalities beyond
Srebrenica as well as Srebrenica, other not-yet-resolved genocide charges pertain solely to Srebrenica.
Five of seven defendants currently being tried jointly for their roles in the Srebrenica genocide
have been charged with genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, or aiding and abetting genocide.
Prosecutor v. Vujadin Popović et al., Case No. IT-05-88. Zdravko Tolimir, who has been charged with
genocide and conspiracy to commit genocide in Srebrenica, is awaiting trial in The Hague.
420. Prosecutor v. Momčilo Krajišnik, Case IT-00-39-T, Trial Judgment, 1143, 717 and 792; Sept. 27,
2006.
421. Id., 793.
422. Id., 867.
423. Krajišnik was sentenced to 27 years in prison. On appeal, his sentence was reduced to 20
years.
424. Interview with Nerma Jelačić, then director, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in BiH,
Sarajevo, Dec. 1, 2006.
425. Interview with Smail Čekić, professor of history, University of Sarajevo, and director of Sarajevo
University Institute for Research of Crimes against Humanity and International Law, Sarajevo,
July 16, 2009.
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