Srebrenica Files - Part 2
EX-S1 · Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial Cemetery
July 12 to 22 1995. 8,372 men and boys. Ten days. Named. Documented. Convicted.
The youngest identified victim was 14. The oldest was 77. Executions took place at named sites including the Kravica warehouse and Branjevo Military Farm. Named units carried out the killings: the Drina Corps and the 10th Sabotage Detachment. The Bosnian Army intercepted the orders in real time. The CIA had aerial photographs of mass grave sites by August 1995. DNA identification of victims is still ongoing in 2025.
EX-S2 · Signals intelligence intercept July 1995
Signals intelligence · July 1995 · Bosnian Army intercepts · ICTY evidence02 / 07
The orders were intercepted in real time. They are in the public ICTY record.
The Bosnian Army's signals intelligence unit intercepted Bosnian Serb Army communications ordering and coordinating the executions in July 1995. These intercepts documented the chain of command in real time.
The intercepted communications were shared with international bodies and presented as evidence at the ICTY. They are part of the public evidentiary record in Prosecutor v. Mladic (IT-09-92) and Prosecutor v. Krstic (IT-98-33). They confirm who gave the orders.
Source: ICTY, Prosecutor v. Mladic, IT-09-92, judgment November 22 2017 · ICTY, Prosecutor v. Krstic, IT-98-33, August 2 2001
EX-S3 · Kravica warehouse exterior
Kravica warehouse · July 13 1995 · Branjevo Military Farm · Cerska valley03 / 07
Kravica warehouse. July 13 1995. Approximately 1,000 men and boys executed here. Named in the ICTY judgment.
The ICTY documented that Bosnian Serb forces executed approximately 1,000 Bosniak men and boys at the Kravica agricultural warehouse on July 13 1995. Kravica is one of the primary named execution sites in the ICTY judgment in Prosecutor v. Mladic.
Other named primary execution sites include the Branjevo Military Farm, where approximately 1,200 men were killed on July 16 1995, and the Cerska valley. Bodies were subsequently moved to secondary mass graves to conceal evidence. The ICMP identified secondary grave sites through forensic matching.
Source: ICTY, Prosecutor v. Mladic, IT-09-92, November 22 2017 · ICTY, Prosecutor v. Krstic, IT-98-33, August 2 2001 · ICMP forensic documentation
EX-S4 · DNA identification lab
ICMP · DNA identification · 8,100 of 8,372 identified · Ongoing 202504 / 07
8,100 of 8,372 victims identified by DNA. Remains moved to secondary graves to conceal evidence. Work ongoing.
The International Commission on Missing Persons has used DNA matching to identify 8,100 of the 8,372 documented victims as of 2024. The identification process is complicated by the fact that bodies were deliberately moved from primary to secondary and even tertiary mass graves to conceal the scale of the killings.
The youngest identified victim was 14 years old. The oldest was 77. Some families waited decades to receive identified remains. The work of identification continues in 2025, thirty years after the killings.
Source: International Commission on Missing Persons, ICMP, annual report 2024 · ICTY forensic evidence, Prosecutor v. Mladic
EX-S5 · CIA aerial reconnaissance photograph 1995
CIA aerial photographs · August 1995 · Presented to UN Security Council05 / 07
The CIA had aerial photographs of mass grave sites by August 1995. Presented to the Security Council.
US Ambassador Madeleine Albright presented CIA aerial reconnaissance photographs showing disturbed earth at mass grave sites to the UN Security Council in August 1995, one month after the killings. The photographs showed evidence of the graves before attempts were made to move the bodies.
The photographs were subsequently declassified and entered into the ICTY evidentiary record. They established that US intelligence had identified the locations of primary mass grave sites within weeks of the executions. Albright described presenting them as among the most difficult moments of her diplomatic career.
Source: US State Department declassified aerial photographs, August 1995 · ICTY evidence record · Madeleine Albright, "Madam Secretary," Miramax Books, 2003
EX-S6 · Evidence folders on institutional shelf
ICTY convictions · Krstic 2001 · Mladic 2017 · Genocide06 / 07
Named units. Named commanders. The Drina Corps. The 10th Sabotage Detachment. Both convicted.
General Radislav Krstic, commander of the Drina Corps, was convicted of genocide by the ICTY on August 2 2001, the first genocide conviction by an international tribunal since the Nuremberg trials. His sentence was later reduced to 35 years on appeal after the conviction was revised to aiding and abetting genocide.
General Ratko Mladic was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity by the ICTY on November 22 2017 and sentenced to life imprisonment. His appeal was rejected in June 2021. The ICJ confirmed in February 2007 that genocide had been committed at Srebrenica.
Source: ICTY, Prosecutor v. Krstic, IT-98-33, August 2 2001 · ICTY, Prosecutor v. Mladic, IT-09-92, November 22 2017 · ICJ, Bosnia v. Serbia, February 26 2007
EX-S7 · Single bottle on concrete floor
The question. Not a claim.07 / 07
8,372 men and boys. Named sites. Named units. The youngest was 14. The oldest was 77. DNA identification still ongoing thirty years later. What does it mean that the most documented genocide since the Holocaust happened while the world watched?
Next week: the international failure. The CIA had photographs. The Security Council had reports. The Dayton Agreement ended the war. What none of it prevented, and what a Dutch court confirmed in 2019.
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