The Srebrenica Massacre - Nova Srpska Politicka Misao

The Numbers Game
issue of Srebrenica has been dropped, they say, because it no longer fits the administration’s
agenda.” (“Eyewitnesses Confirm Massacres in Bosnia,” Christian
Science Monitor, October 5, 1995.)
51 David Rohde, “Evidence Indicates Bosnia Massacre Eyewitness report supports
charges by U.S. of killings,” Christian Science Monitor, August 18, 1995.
52 Ryan, “What’s in a ‘mass grave’?” .
53 “Bosnian Serb Official Denies Existence of Mass Graves around Srebrenica,” BBC
Monitoring Central Europe & Balkans, December 22, 1995.
54 Private email correspondence between Rolf Hartzuiker and Jonathan Rooper,
June 26, 1997.
55 See Edward Pearce, “Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics,” The Guardian, January
28, 1995, reporting on BBC Panorama host John Simpson’s (“as scrupulous a
journalist as there is,” in Pearce’s words) January 23, 1995 report revealing Haris
Silajdzic’s “thorough-paced lie,” namely, that “[t]here were not 70,000 deaths”
in Bihac, as Silajdzic claimed, “but around 1,000, and not women and children,
but mostly troops defending it. And Bihac when reached, and its citizens talked
to, proved not conquered.”
56 John Pilger, “Kosovo—the site of a genocide that never was…,” New Statesman,
December 13, 2004.
57 Tim Weiner, “U.S. Says Serbs May Have Tried To Destroy Massacre Evidence,”
New York Times, October 30, 1995.
58 Jon Swain, “Empty Bosnian Graves baffle UN,” The Sunday Times, November 3,
1996.
59 Mike O’Connor, “In Bosnia Field, Changes Refuel Talk of Graves,” New York
Times, April 3, 1996.
60 See Emma Daly, “It is a crime too great to hide, but do we have the stomach to
bring the killers to trial?” The Independent, April 3, 1996.
61 Elizabeth Neuffer, “NATO puts grave sites in Balkans on watch,” Boston Globe,
April 22, 1996; David Rohde, “Bosnian Massacre Sites Swept of Key Evidence,”
Christian Science Monitor, April 3, 1996; and Mike O’Connor, “ In Bosnia Field,
Changes Refuel Talk of Graves,” New York Times, April 3, 1996.
62 “Mission launched to trace missing in ex-Yugoslavia,” Reuters, November 25,
1996. The establishment of the ICMP was first announced by President Bill Clinton
at the Group of Seven summit held that year in Lyon, France. At this time,
Clinton referred to it as “an international commission on the missing in the Former
Yugoslavia to be chaired by former Secretary of State Cy Vance.” (“Transcript
of the President’s Press Conference in France,” U.S. Newswire, June 29,
1996.)
63 Indeed, the ICMP’s actual purpose as positively identifying Bosnian Muslim victims
of the war can be seen by the fact that in 2005, the ICMP began returning
its responsibilities to the Missing Persons Institute of Bosnia - Herzegovina, a
new state-level institution that operates under the Council of Ministers of Bosnia
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