The Srebrenica Massacre - Nova Srpska Politicka Misao

Securing Verdicts: The Misuse of Witness Testimony at The Hague
narrative. Thus, for example, someone like Drazen Erdemovic, a lynchpin
Srebrenica witness, who claimed to have taken part in the mass
killing of more than 1000 Bosnian Muslim men at Branjevo military
farm, and to have personally executed some 100 men, walked away with
a 5-year sentence, which, in any case, he didn’t fully serve. Indeed, the
ICTY’s treatment of three key alleged insider witnesses (Erdemovic,
Miroslav Deronjic, and Momir Nikolic) will illustrate the way this court
uses questionable testimony to construct the favored Srebrenica narrative.
These three witnesses are pretty much the only witnesses the ICTY
has to the alleged planned mass executions at Srebrenica.
Drazen Erdemovic
Since as early as 1996, Drazen Erdemovic’s testimony has been at the
heart of the ICTY’s case on Srebrenica. The court apparently had in its
custody a former soldier in the army of the Republika Srpska who had
confessed to having taken part in the cold-blooded execution of 1,200
unarmed Muslim men and boys in Bosnia. If Erdemovic was telling the
truth, then the case against the Serbs for mass executions and major war
crimes was irrefutable.
However, if Erdemovic was lying with the knowledge and even coaching
of the ICTY, and the horrific acts that he claims took place are a fabrication
or greatly inflated, and/or if he was a mercenary killing on a
contract basis for some party other than the Bosnian Serb leadership,
then the ICTY has colluded in his lies, suborned his perjury, fabricated
evidence, obstructed justice, and indicted, detained, and imprisoned
individuals it knows to be innocent. The ICTY would then fit its own
definition of the kind of “joint criminal enterprise” in which it accuses
others of participating.
According to Erdemovic’s testimony, he was a Bosnian Croat born in
Tuzla who served, successively, in the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA),
Alija Izetbegovic’s BMA, the Bosnian Croats’ Defense Council (CDC)
and, finally, in the Bosnian Serb Army (BSA). He claims that on July 10,
1995, his unit, the 10th Sabotage Detachment, entered Srebrenica and
helped to assemble the town’s population in the soccer stadium. On
July 16, his unit, consisting of eight to 10 soldiers, most of whom were
Croats, was ordered by a still-unidentified lieutenant colonel from the
army of Republika Srpska to go to Branjevo military farm, near Pilica,
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