The Srebrenica Massacre - Nova Srpska Politicka Misao

Securing Verdicts: The Misuse of Witness Testimony at The Hague
Post, March 8, 1996.
63 Also see the account in Germinal Civikov, Srebrenica: The Star Witness, Trans.
John Laughland (Belgrade: NGO Srebrenica Historical Project, 2010), Ch. 3,
“Capture and transfer,” pp. 28-32.
64 Prosecutor v. Goran Jelisic, IT-95-10, Judgment, December 14,
1999,.
65 Prosecutor v. Drazen Erdemovic, IT-96-22, January 14, 1998, p.32. The transcript
for the hearing on this day is very hard to find on the ICTY Web site. However,
the url should
get one there.
66 Krstic Trial Transcript, May 22, 2000, p. 3068, .
67 See Civikov, Srebrenica: The Star Witness, Ch. 1, “‘We weren’t mercenaries, we
were professionals’,” pp. 20-23.
68 See Civikov, Srebrenica: The Star Witness, pp. 26-27, p. 48, pp. 57-58, pp. 59-61,
p. 108, pp. 121-122, and p. 130. Throughout, Civikov emphasizes how this
“anonymous” and “mysterious” lieutenant colonel happens to “pop up” in the
Erdemovic testimonies whenever Erdemovic and the prosecution need him. Nevertheless,
he remains unidentified.
69 Prosecutor v. Drazen Erdemovic, Sentencing Judgment, March 5, 1998, para.
16,.
70 See Civikov, Srebrenica: The Star Witness, Ch. 27, “The French Connection,” pp.
111-114. Therein, we read: “Jugoslav Petru, also known as ‘Colonel Yugo Dominik’,
is a former member of the French Foreign Legion with dual French and
Yugoslav citizenship. Petru claims to be working for the French Direction generale
de la securite exterieure (DGSE) which is very probably true but which is not confirmed
officially by France. As [former Serbian Minister of Information Goran]
Matic further indicates, in 1996, i.e. after the end of the war in Bosnia, Petru
had, together with Milorad Pelemic, recruited some 180 mercenaries for the
French secret service and taken them to Zaire (Congo) to fight in the civil war
there on the side of President Mobutu. The whole affair was financed by the
French telecommunications company ‘Geolink’, for which the government in
Belgrade says it has proof” (pp. 112-113).
71 Interview with Hakija Meholjic, Dani (Sarajevo), June 22, 1998.
72 Milosevic Trial Transcript, August 25, 2003, pp. 25210-25212,
.
73 Ibid, p. 25233.
74 Quoted in Louise Branson, “Serbian Killer Turned Away by U.S. Embassy,” The
Sunday Times (London), March 17, 1996.
75 Milosevic Trial Transcript, August 25, 2003, pp. 25223-25225.
76 Dusan Stojanovic, N.T., Associated Press Worldstream, March 14, 1996.
77 Erdemovic Trial Transcript, November 20, 1996, p. 318,.
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