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| '''Darko Trifunović''' ({{lang-sr|Дарко Трифуновић}}) is a lawyer and professor of Security Studies at the ], where he has specialised in the study of ].<ref name="RIEAS"></ref> He prepared a report for the ] (]) government which denied that the ] had occurred during the ] in July 1995. The report was condemned by ] officials, survivors of the massacre and international judges carrying out war crimes trials and was eventually disowned by the Bosnian Serb government.<ref name="Denial">{{cite news|author1=Tracy, Jen|author2=Rawles, Lee|author3=Krauthamer, Ky|author4=Gardner, Andrew|title=The Death of Denial|url=http://www.tol.cz/look/BRR/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=9&NrIssue=1&NrSection=6&NrArticle=10948|work=Transitions Online|date=10 November 2003|accessdate=3 July 2009}}</ref> | |||
| ==Srebrenica massacre report== | |||
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| In September 2002, the Bosnian Serb government's Bureau for Relations with the ] issued '']''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=15401773&v3=1|title=Brief Record|publisher=US ]|accessdate=22 April 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/documents/srebrenica.pdf|title=Report about Case Srebrenica (The First Part)|publisher=slobodan-milosevic.org|accessdate=22 April 2009}}</ref>, which was prepared by Trifunović.<ref name="Rozajać">{{cite news|last=Rozajać|first=Sanita|title=Europe Finds Interesting Trifunovic's Story about Islamic Terrorism|work=Oslobodjenje|publisher=via BBC Monitoring|date=16 January 2008}}</ref><ref name="Hayat">{{cite news|title=Bosnian Muslims object to Serb terrorism expert addressing European conference|work=TV Hayat|publisher=via BBC Monitoring|date=7 January 2008}}</ref> The report asserted that the ] never occurred and portrayed the Bosnian Serbs as victims of ] atrocities.<ref name="Fischer">{{cite book|author1=Fischer|author2=McDonald, Avril|title=Yearbook of international humanitarian law 2002|page=453-454|publisher=Asser Press|year=2005|ISBN=9067041890}}</ref> The report also contested the findings of the ] and other humanitarian organisations as having been "manipulated" and "fabricated".<ref name="Denial" /> ], the chief prosecutor of the ICTY, described the report's authors as "totally blind, profoundly insensitive and clearly willing to obstruct all efforts to find reconciliation, truth and justice."<ref name="SETimes-Srebrenica">{{cite news|title=New Srebrenica Report Condemned|url=http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/mk/features/setimes/features/2002/09/020904-SVETLA-001|publisher=SETimes.com|date=4 September 2002|accessdate=1 July 2009}}</ref> The British ] minister ] declared: "The authors of this report belong in the same category as those who ]."<ref>{{cite web|title=MacShane condemns report denying Srebrenica massacre|url=http://www.fco.gov.uk/resources/en/press-release/2002/09/fco_npr_040902_macshanesrebrenic|publisher=Foreign & Commonwealth Office|date=4 September 2009|accessdate=3 July 2009}}</ref> | |||
| The Bosnian Serb government initially sought to distance itself from the report, asserting that it had been "compiled by one of their bureaux but had not been fully analysed and endorsed by the government,"<ref name="IWPR-Bosnian Serbs">{{cite news|last=Katana|first=Gordana|title=REGIONAL REPORT: Bosnian Serbs Play Down Srebrenica|url=http://www.iwpr.net/index.php?apc_state=hen&s=o&o=p=tri&l=EN&s=f&o=164405|publisher=Institute of War and Peace Reporting|date=2-7 September 2002|accessdate=1 July 2009}}</ref> and ultimately disowned it altogether.<ref name="Denial" /> | |||
| Trifunović was criticised by Bosnian Muslims for "his continuous efforts to deny, downplay, and distort the July 1995 events in Srebrenica." An invitation from the ] to give a presentation at the congress in January 2008 produced a harsh reaction from public figures in Bosnia. His invitation was rescinded after the Bosnian security minister ] complained and vowed that "I would not take part if this man were to appear in the congress".<ref name="Rozajać" /> | |||
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