The Srebrenica Massacre - Nova Srpska Politicka Misao

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99 See, e.g., Nicholas Wood, “Bosnian Serbs Admit Responsibility for the Massacre
of 7,000,” New York Times, June 12, 2004. “Nearly nine years after the event,
Bosnia’s Serbian leadership has admitted responsibility for the massacre of at least
7,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica,” Wood reported. The
“42-page report…admits for the first time that police and army units under the
government’s control ‘participated’ in the massacre, which took place in July
1995….It also states that ‘the executioner undertook all measures to hide the
crime by removing bodies’,” and “includes the locations of 32 mass graves, 28 of
which were ‘secondary’, containing bodies that had been removed from other
sites in order to hide them from international investigators.”
100 Nicholas Wood, “More Prosecutions Likely to Stem From New Srebrenica Report,”
New York Times, October 6, 2005.
101 Ian Traynor, “Ashdown ‘running Bosnia like a Raj’,” The Guardian, July 5, 2003.
102 See Wiebes, Intelligence and the War in Bosnia, 1992 - 1995, Ch. 8, “Was ‘Srebrenica’
an intelligence failure?” pp. 355-421; esp. pp. 370-371.
103 For a publicly accessible copy of the alleged Skorpion’s execution video, see, e.g.,
“Srebrenica July 1995 ‘Execution’ Total Version,” as posted to YouTube by “sanimideg,”
. Also see the additional
treatment of this video in Chapter 5.
104 See n. 46, above.
105 Tim Judah and Daniel Sunter called the video the “smoking gun”—“the final, incontrovertible
proof of Serbia’s part in the Srebrenica massacres in which more
than 7,500 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were murdered.” (“How the video
that put Serbia in dock was brought to light,” The Observer, June 5, 2005.)
Nicholas Wood and Marlise Simons wrote that “Analysts say the cassette is the
most significant piece of evidence to shape Serbian public opinion since the end
of the Balkan wars of the 1990’s.” (“Videotape of Serbian Police Killing 6 Muslims
From Srebrenica Grips Balkans,” New York Times, June 12, 2005.)
106 Judge Almiro Rodrigues et al., Oral Statement, Prosecutor versus Radislav Krstic,
OF/P.I.S./609e, August 2, 2001, p. 7, ; and Judge Almiro Rodrigues et al., Judgment,
Prosecutor versus Radislav Krstic, IT-98-33-T, August 2, 2001, Section G,
“Genocide,” para. 539-599; para. 653-654, .
107 See Michael Mandel, How America Gets Away With Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral
Damage, and Crimes Against Humanity (Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2004),
pp. 152-160. Also see Chapter 6 in the present volume.
108 See Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime
of Genocide (or Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro), International
Court of Justice, February 26, 2007, .
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