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'''Darko Trifunović''' ({{lang-sr|Дарко Трифуновић}}) is a lawyer and professor at the Faculty of Security Studies of the [[University of Belgrade]], where he has specialised in the study of [[Islamic terrorism]].<ref name="hayat05jan08">"Bosnian Muslims object to Serb terrorism expert addressing European conference". Report from TV Hayat, Sarajevo, 1800 GMT, 5 January 2008. Via BBC Monitoring.</ref> He prepared a widely criticised report for the [[Republika Srpska]] ([[Serbs|Bosnian Serb]]) government which denied that there had been a [[Srebrenica massacre|massacre at Srebrenica]] during the [[Bosnian War]]. |
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==Srebrenica massacre report controversy== |
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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 [[Library of Congress]]|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 [[Bosniaks]] 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>"[http://www.tol.cz/look/TOL/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=9&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1&NrArticle=7086 Imaginary Massacres?]", Anes Alic and Dragan Stanimirovic, ''Transitions Online'', 2002</ref> The report was strongly criticised by the international community and human rights institutions.<ref>"[http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,349957,00.html Imaginary Massacres?]" 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 [[Radislav Krstić]] for his involvement in the crime.<ref>"[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1470928.stm General guilty of Bosnia genocide]". 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>"[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3743176.stm Serbs admit Srebrenica death toll]". BBC News Online, 14 October 2004</ref> |
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==References== |
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[[Category:Counter-terrorism theorists]] |
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