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634. Interview with Mirsad Duratović, Prijedor, Dec. 8, 2006. Duratović made it clear that he
believed all war crimes deserve punishment and that widespread atrocities by Serbs did not justify
a single violation by Bosniaks. He was nonetheless concerned that the ICTY’s approach did not
reflect differences of degree and nature between crimes committed by Bosniaks and Serbs.
635. Interview with Dobrila Govedarica, executive director, Open Society Fund BiH, Sarajevo,
Nov. 29, 2006.
636. Janine Natalya Clark, The Limits of Retributive Justice: Findings of an Empirical Study in Bosnia
and Hercegovina, 7 J. Int’l Crim. J. 463, 478 (2009).
637. Jasna Bakšić Muftić, professor, Faculty of Law, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Nov. 30,
2006.
638. Interview with Dobrila Govedarica, executive director, Open Society Fund BiH, Sarajevo,
Nov. 29, 2006.
639. Interview with Mervan Miraščija, law program coordinator, Open Society Fund BiH, Nov.
29, 2006.
640. Interview with Sevima Sali-Terzić, legal advisor, BiH Constitutional Court, Sarajevo, Nov.
30, 2006.
641. See “Fragile Bosnia: The break-up danger; Growing fears that fractious political leaders are
jeopardizing Bosnia’s future,” The Economist, Nov. 8, 2008; Dan Bilefsky, “Tensions Rise in Fragile
Bosnia as Country’s Serbs Threaten to Seek Independence,” New York Times, Feb. 27, 2009.
642. See “Fragile Bosnia: The break-up danger; Growing fears that fractious political leaders are
jeopardizing Bosnia’s future,” The Economist, Nov. 8, 2008.
643. When the ICJ judgment was rendered, Silajžić told ABC News: “Bosnia-Herzegovina
must … purge itself of the remnants of the genocide that permeates throughout Bosnian society.
We will achieve this by altering what has been founded on the genocide’s outcome — the
interior structure of Bosnia and its constitution.” Dragana Jovanović, “International Court Clears
Serbia of Genocide,” ABC News Online, Feb. 26, 2007, at http://abcnews.go.com/International/
Story?id=2906051andpage=1.
644. As noted earlier, many Bosnians point out that leaders of victims’ associations are themselves
political actors—often very savvy ones—whose perspectives may be different than those of
“ordinary victims.”
645. Interview with Dobrila Govedarica, executive director, Open Society Fund BiH, Sarajevo,
Nov. 29, 2006. Although this quote is Govedarica’s, we heard this point repeatedly during each of
our visits to Bosnia.
646. Id.
647. See Nicholas Kulish, “Biden Warns Bosnians against ‘Ancient Animosities’,” New York Times,
May 20, 2009.
648. Interview with Emir Suljagić, author, Sarajevo, July 14, 2009.
649. An intriguing study found that Serbs in the Croatian city of Vukovar were more likely to
have positive attitudes toward the ICTY, and more ready to admit that war crimes were committed
by members of their own ethnic group, than Serbs in the RS town of Prijedor. The study authors
speculate that the differences may have some relation to the different status of Serbs in the two
towns: “The Vukovar Serbs lost their primacy and have chosen to remain in Croatia; they must
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