The Srebrenica Massacre - Nova Srpska Politicka Misao

The Military Context of the Fall of Srebrenica
Times, April 24, 1995.
35 Emma Daley, “UN accuses Karadzic of war crimes,” The Independent, April 25,
1995. Also see Press Release CC/PIO/006-E, ICTY, April 24, 1995,
; and Judge Karibi-Whyte et al.,
Trial Chamber Decision on the Bosnian Serb Leadership Deferral Proposal, IT-95-
5-D, May 16, 1995, .
36 “UNPROFOR concerned at impact of war crimes move on flailing peace efforts,”
Agence France Presse, April 24, 1995; Abner Katzman, “Yugoslav Tribunal
Names Bosnian Serb Leader As War Crimes Suspect,” Associated Press, April
24, 1995; Clare Dyer and Christine Aziz, “Karadzic is war crimes suspect,” The
Guardian, April 25, 1995; Eve-Ann Prentice, “UN names Mladic and Karadzic
as war crime suspects,” The Times, April 25, 1995; Fred Barbash, “War Tribunal
Targets Three Bosnian Serbs; Top Leaders Linked To ‘Mass Killings’,” Washington
Post, April 25, 1995.
37 ECLO West, Special Report, April 24, 1994. Quoted in O’Shea, Crisis At Bihac,
pp. 199.
38 Mark Heinrich, “Croatian army attacks Serbs to regain motorway,” Reuters, May
1, 1995.
39 O’Shea, Crisis At Bihac, p. 201.
40 Emma Daley, “Serb rockets sow terror in streets of Zagreb,” The Independent,
May 3, 1995. As The Times of London described Galbraith’s appearance at a
“Zagreb children’s hospital, where 200 young patients were huddled together
shortly after the building took three rocket hits” on May 3: “’One should understand
what has gone on cluster bombs [on the rockets] sent into the centre of
a European capital are intended for one purpose and that is to kill lots of people’,
Mr Galbraith said. ‘Furthermore, the timing of the attacks, not at night but right
in the middle of the day, during the lunch hour, is further evidence that the sole
single purpose was to kill as many people as possible. It’s an utter outrage’, the
Ambassador added, his voice quivering with anger.” Joel Brand, “Rockets strike
at Zagreb innocents,” May 4, 1995.
41 O’Shea, Crisis At Bihac, p. 207.
42 Because the UN Security Council’s May 24, 1995 session was formally closed, no
public record of it is available, and therefore a copy of the briefing by France’s
Lieut.-General Bernard Janvier is not readily accessible. In what follows, I am
drawing on “US calls for more aggressive use of air strikes in Bosnia,” Agence
France Presse, May 24, 1995; Evelyn Leopold, “UN Council deliberates next
moves on Yugoslavia,” Reuters, May 24, 1995; and “US urges use of air power
in Balkans,” United Press International, May 24, 1995.
43 Louis Meixler, “U.S., Russia Divided On Bosnia Peacekeeping,” Associated Press,
May 24, 1995.
44 Joel Brand and Eve-Ann Prentice, “UN general threatens Sarajevo airstrikes,”
The Times, May 25, 1995.
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