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In September 2002, the Bosnian Serb government's Bureau for Relations with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia issued ''Report about case Srebrenica: The First Part''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=15401773&v3=1|title=Brief Record|publisher=US ]|accessdate=2009-04-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/documents/srebrenica.pdf|title=Report about Case Srbrenica (The First Part)|publisher=slobodan-milosevic.org|accessdate=2009-04-22}}</ref> The report, prepared by Trifunović, asserted that the Srebrenica massacre of August 1995 had never happened, that only about 1,800 ] had died at Srebrenica (in combat rather than in a massacre) instead of the 7,000-8,000 reported by international investigators and that only about 100 had been killed in summary executions.<ref>"", Anes Alic and Dragan Stanimirovic, ''Transitions Online'', 2002</ref> The report was strongly criticised by the international community and human rights institutions.<ref>"" TIME magazine, 11 September 2002</ref> The ICTY had ruled a year earlier that nearly 8,000 Muslims had been murdered in an act of genocide and convicted General ] for his involvement in the crime.<ref>"". BBC News Online, 2 August 2001.</ref> Two years after the report was issued, the Bosnian Serb government finally admitted the scale of the killings.<ref>"". BBC News Online, 14 October 2004</ref> |
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