The Srebrenica Massacre - Nova Srpska Politicka Misao

The Numbers Game
Visegrad, Rogatica which is shown by the fact that we registered 70 persons who
were buried in the Potocari Memorial Centre, but who were not killed in Srebrenica.”
92 Susan Ladika, “Laying Ghosts To Rest In Bosnia,” Science, August 24, 2001,
. How 5,800 unidentified bodies could be definitely
linked to Srebrenica was not explained. Nor did the journalist appear to be aware
that the 200 identified bodies were not those of people who were definitely in Srebrenica
when it fell, just 200 people whose names were on the list of missing persons
compiled by the ICRC.
93 “DNA Results of the International Commission on Missing Persons Reveal the
Identity of 6,481 Srebrenica Victims,” July 9, 2010, .
94 See Judge Carmel Agius et al., Judgment, The Prosecutor v. Vujadin Popovic et al.,
IT-05-88-T, ICTY, June 10, 2010, Sect. III(J)5, “ICMP Data on Deceased Persons,”
para. 638-649; here note 2329, p. 258, . In pointing this out, the Trial Chamber
was rejecting the criticisms of ICMP methodology by Defense expert-witness
Debra Komar, who, according to the Trial Chamber, had testified that “in
an ideal situation, samples would be taken from both parents of a missing individual
and used to identify the individual in question, as a person’s DNA is a
combination of the DNA of each parent.” But, as the Trial Chamber then admitted,
“In many situations, including those at the ICMP, the DNA of one or
both parents is not available, and thus samples from more distant relatives are
used” (para. 643).
95 See Karadzic Trial Transcript, IT-95-5/18-I, July 23, 2009, p. 365, lines 21-22,
. Also see Andy
Wilcoxson, “Radovan Karadzic Previews Srebrenica Genocide Defense,” Balkan
Report, August 6, 2009, .
96 Trifunovic et al., Report about Case Srebrenica, .
97 Dragana Dardic, “Serb denial of Srebrenica massacre sparks outrage,” Reuters,
September 3, 2002. Also see “Official Bosnian Serb report on Srebrenica provokes
outrage,” Agence France Presse, September 3, 2002; Irena Gajic, “Bosnian
Serb government report: Few Muslims killed in Srebrenica massacre,” Associated
Press, September 3, 2002; “High Representative Slams Bosnian Serb Report on
Srebrenica,” HINA-Croatian News Agency, September 4, 2002; “EU, US condemn
Bosnian Serb report on Srebrenica massacre,” Agence France Presse, September
5, 2002; and “Missing persons group slams Bosnian Serb report on
Srebrenica,” Agence France Presse, September 5, 2002.
98 See The Events in and around Srebrenica between 10 th and 19 th July 1995, Commission
for Investigation of the Events in and around Srebrenica between 10 and
19 July 1995, Banja Luka, June 2004.
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