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Darko Trifunović (Template:Lang-sr) is a lawyer and professor of Security Studies at the University of Belgrade, where he has specialised in the study of Islamic terrorism. He prepared a report for the Republika Srpska (Bosnian Serb) government which denied that the Srebrenica Massacre had occurred during the Bosnian War in July 1995. The report was condemned by United Nations officials, survivors of the massacre and international judges carrying out war crimes trials and was eventually disowned by the Bosnian Serb government.

Srebrenica massacre report

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, which was prepared by Trifunović. The report asserted that the Srebrenica massacre never occurred and portrayed the Bosnian Serbs as victims of Bosnian Muslim atrocities. The report also contested the findings of the International Committee of the Red Cross and other humanitarian organisations as having been "manipulated" and "fabricated". Carla del Ponte, 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." The British Foreign Office minister Denis MacShane declared: "The authors of this report belong in the same category as those who deny the Holocaust took place."

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," and ultimately disowned it altogether.

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 European Police Congress 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 His invitation was rescinded after the Bosnian security minister Tarik Sadović complained and vowed that "I would not take part if this man were to appear in the congress".

References

1. Research Institute for European and American Studies - Darko Trifunovic (PhD)
2. ^ Tracy, Jen; Rawles, Lee; Krauthamer, Ky; Gardner, Andrew (10 November 2003). "The Death of Denial". Transitions Online. Retrieved 3 July 2009.
3. "Brief Record". US Library of Congress. Retrieved 22 April 2009.
4. "Report about Case Srebrenica (The First Part)" (PDF). slobodan-milosevic.org. Retrieved 22 April 2009.
5. ^ Rozajać, Sanita (16 January 2008). "Europe Finds Interesting Trifunovic's Story about Islamic Terrorism". Oslobodjenje. via BBC Monitoring.
6. "Bosnian Muslims object to Serb terrorism expert addressing European conference". TV Hayat. via BBC Monitoring. 7 January 2008.
7. Fischer; McDonald, Avril (2005). Yearbook of international humanitarian law 2002. Asser Press. p. 453-454. ISBN 9067041890.
8. "New Srebrenica Report Condemned". SETimes.com. 4 September 2002. Retrieved 1 July 2009.
9. "MacShane condemns report denying Srebrenica massacre". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 4 September 2009. Retrieved 3 July 2009.
10. Katana, Gordana (2–7 September 2002). "REGIONAL REPORT: Bosnian Serbs Play Down Srebrenica". Institute of War and Peace Reporting. Retrieved 1 July 2009.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)

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