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26 Ibid.
27 Ibid.
28 Ibid.
29 Boyd, “Making Peace with the Guilty,” pp. 22-23.
30 See David Binder, “U.S. Policymakers on Bosnia Admit Errors in Opposing Partition
in 1992,” New York Times, August 29, 1993. According to Binder: “Mr
Izetbegovic’s acceptance of partition, which would have denied him and his Muslim
party a dominant role in the republic, shocked the Unites States policy makers….’The
embassy was for recognition of B&H from sometime in February on’,
Ambassador Zimmermann said of his recommendation from Belgrade. Upon
Izetbegovic’s return from Lisbon, on February 25 [1992], Mr Zimmermann called
on him in Sarajevo, noting: ‘He said he didn’t like it. I told him, if he didn’t like
it, why sign it’?”
31 See The Fall of Srebrenica, Sect. D, “Markale massacre and disagreements on the
use of air power,” para. 117-123.
32 David Binder, “Anatomy of a Massacre,” Foreign Policy, Vol. 97, Winter 1994-95,
pp.77-78. As Cees Wiebes adds: “Various staff of intelligence and security services
from Canada, the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands
established independently of each other that this was an act by the AbiH
[Bosnian Army] to show the Bosnian Serbs in a bad light.” Intelligence and the War
in Bosnia, 1992 – 1995, p. 68.
33 Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Unvanquished: A U.S. - U.N. Saga (New York: Random
House, 1999), p. 145.
34 See Michael Rose, Fighting for Peace: Lessons from Bosnia (London: The Harvill
Press, 1998), pp. 43-49; p. 113; p. 118; pp. 124-126.
35 Mike O’Connor, “Investigation Concludes Bosnian Government Snipers Shot
at Civilians,” New York Times, August 1, 1995.
36 In fact, based on an Adobe Acrobat Reader search for all mentions of the word
‘Sarajevo’ in the PDF of The Fall of Srebrenica, the word ‘Sarajevo’ occurs a total
of 221 times throughout the text, endnotes, and annexes of The Fall of Srebrenica.
37 Interview with Edin Garaplija, Slobodna Dalmacija, Split, Croatia, September
12, 2000.
38 Prosecutor v. Radislav Krstic, IT-98-33-T, Trial Transcript, April 5, 2001, p. 9471,
.
39 Hajika Meholic, Interview, in Hasan Hadzic, “5,000 Muslim Lives for Military
Intervention,” Dani (Sarajevo), June 22 1998 (as posted to the website of the
Centre for Peace in the Balkans, ). Also see Hakija Meholjic, Krstic Trial Transcript, IT-98-33-
T, April 5, 2001, p. 9480, .
Note that on this rare occasion, a videotape of a Dutch film that included an interview
with Meholjic was played before the Trial Chamber (pp. 9480-9485).
Meholjic’s words as recorded by the Dutch filmmaker were translated to the
Chamber while the videotape played.
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