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27 Leonard Doyle, “Muslims ‘slaughter their own people’,” The Independent, August
22, 1992.
28 UN Security Council Resolution 757 (S/RES/757), May 30, 1992. This very
comprehensive resolution demanded that all Member States prevent import from
or export to what was then still referred to as the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia—the
SFRY now explicitly defined as “Serbia and Montenegro,” or the
so-called “Rump” Yugoslavia.
29 UN Security Council Resolution 752 (S/RES/752), May 15, 1992, demanded
that “all forms of interference from outside Bosnia and Herzegovina…cease immediately”
(para. 3), including the withdrawal or demobilization of the armed
forces of the Yugoslav People’s Army, the Croatian Army, and various irregular
units.
30 Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to paragraph 4 of Security Council resolution
752 (1992) (S/24049), May 30, 1992, para. 6; para. 10. Whereas Res.
757, adopted on May 30, expressed the Council’s “appreciation for the report of
the Secretary-General of 26 May 1992” (see S/24000), it made no mention of the
Secretary-General’s report of May 30 (S/24049).
31 Peter Hohenfellner, Interview, in Bogdanich, Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War.
32 Cedric Thornberry, “Bosnia—Problems of Peace: Saving the War Crimes Tribunal,”
Foreign Policy, Fall, 1996.
33 Milosevic Trial Transcript, February 12, 2004, p. 32,045, . Note that in this instance, Morillon’s earlier testimony
before the Tribunal was being cited in court by Branislav Tapuskovic during
his cross-examination of Morillon. Tapuskovic was then one three Amici
Curiae assigned by the Tribunal to the Milosevic case.
34 Ibid, p. 31,966.
36 Dutchbat Commander Thomas Karremans is quoted in Srebrenica—A “Safe”
Area: Reconstruction, background, consequences and analyses of the fall of a safe area,
Part IV, Ch. 6, Section 5, “The press conferences,” Netherlands Institute for War
Documentation, 2002, .
37 Milosevic Trial Transcript, February 12, 2004, p. 31,975, .
38 In late May, 1993, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia’s Chargé d’affaires at the
United Nations delivered extensive documentation of atrocities perpetrated
against ethnic Serbs living in eastern Bosnia. See the Memorandum on War
Crimes and Crimes and Genocide in Eastern Bosnia (Communes of Bratunac,
Skelani and Srebrenica) Committed against the Serbian Population from April
1992 to April 1993 (A/48/177 - S/25835), May 24, 1993, < . For additional documentation of the scale of these atrocities,
also see the so-called Ivanisevic Collection at the Centar za istrazivanje zlocina
nad Srpskim narodom in Belgrade. Specifically the book by Milovoje Ivanisevic,
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