The Srebrenica Massacre - Nova Srpska Politicka Misao

The Numbers Game
effect is to extend greatly the total of Srebrenica-related DNA matches,
and, like the exhumation-and-reburial theory, provides the ICMP with
the rationale needed to make the total of positive DNA matches the
function of its potentially limitless DNA-sampling process. In this way,
the ultimate number of claimed DNA matches may be increased to
whichever total they desire.
Despite the fact that DNA evidence has been crucial to the convictions
handed down in the ICTY’s Srebrenica trials, it has now been confirmed
that the ICMP has never given the Tribunal any of the DNA
evidence allegedly assembled by the ICMP. Radovan Karadzic’s defense
team has been unable to gain access to the ICMP’s DNA evidence, and
even ICTY prosecutor Hildegarde Uertz-Retzlaff has acknowledged to
the court that “The ICMP did also not provide the DNA to us.” 95 This
is a remarkable admission: that the ICTY has neither seen nor tested
the quality of the evidence on DNA provided by an interested party,
the Bosnian Muslim-controlled ICMP, in coming to serious decisions
on claims of “genocide.”
Reports and Serb “confessions”
During recent years the international community has appeared anxious
to solidify the official version of events at Srebrenica. Paddy Ashdown,
the longest-serving High Representative for Bosnia and
Herzegovina, equipped with draconian powers, required the government
of Republika Srpska to produce a report in which the Bosnian
Serbs admitted that massacres had been carried out by their army during
the war. The original report, produced in September 2002, was a detailed
and thorough account. It concluded that there had been a few
hundred executions, but also that some 2,000 Bosnian Muslims and
500 Serbs had been killed in fighting in the forests as the column of
Bosnian Muslim men from Srebrenica made its way towards Muslimcontrolled
territory. 96
Ashdown was infuriated by this first report, which he called “tendentious,
preposterous, and inflammatory,” and an “insult to people of
all ethnic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina;”
Ashdown ordered Republika Srpska to revise its report according to
his own prescription on pain of drastic penalties if they did not cooperate.
97 When the RS government sought to approach the task with a
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