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The Srebrenica Research Group
is a self-financed group of journalists and academic researchers who have been
working as a group over a three-year period to review evidence related to the
capture of Srebrenica and how the actual facts
compare with widely publicized portrayal of events. The study makes comparisons with other
military operations such as Operation Flash and Operation Storm against the UN
Protected Serb enclaves in Croatia. The study also traces how the official
portrayal of events affected the outcome of the conflict in Bosnia, the actions
of the war crimes tribunal and the public perception of Serbia and Republika Srpska.
The Srebrenica Research Group is led by author Ed Herman of the
University of Pennsylvania; Herman has written several books on media coverage
of wartime events. He is co-editor with Phil Hammond of a series of essays
called Degraded Capability: The Media and Kosovo
Crisis and co-author with Noam Chomsky of Manufacturing Consent a classic study of
the role of press coverage in the Vietnam War and other conflicts. Also active in the group, BBC Journalist
Jonathan Rooper, who currently works as a publicist
in London and former New York Press columnist George Szamuely,
who has written for US and UK publications currently works for the National
Law Journal in New York. George Bogdanich, who is
also based in New York, has written for
various publications including The Chicago Tribune, the Nation,
the Progressive and others. He was director and co-producer, along with
Martin Lettmayer, of the documentary film “Yugoslavia
The Avoidable War,” which has been broadcast in Europe and Canada.
Michael
Mandel, Professor of International Law at York University in Toronto has
written extensively on the War Crimes Tribunal. Another commentator on media
coverage of conflict, is Dr. Philip Hammond of London South Bank
University. Tim Fenton is a London-based
researcher and archivist. David Peterson based in the Chicago area, writes on
foreign policy for several publications and websites. Dr Milan Bulajic, of the Fund for Genocide Research and has been
involved in the research of war crimes over a fifty-year career. An attorney in
international law, he was former head of the Yugoslav State Commission on War
Crimes, director of the Museum of Genocide and the author of sixty books on the
subject of genocide and war crimes.
Advisors
and contributors to the work of the Srebrenica
Research Group include Phillip Corwin former UN Civilian Affairs Coordinator in
Bosnia and former speechwriter for UN Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar.
Corwin is the author of Dubious Mandate: A Memoir of the UN in Bosnia
and Doomed in Afghanistan.
Another former UN official Carlos Martins Branco,
served as Deputy Director of UNMO (UN monitors in Bosnia) and debriefed UN
observers from Srebrenica. He is currently a colonel in the Portugese Amry. Also providing
advice was Diana Johnstone, author of Fool's
Crusade: Yugoslavia NATO and Western Delusions, Belgrade Professor Vera Vratusa, German-based researcher George Pumphrey,
Milivoje Ivanisevic, a
Belgrade-based writer who has done extensive research into war crimes in Bosnia
and internationally respected military forensic expert
Dr. Zoran Stankovic of
Belgrade and Dr. Srboljub Zivanovic,
a forensic archeologist and London based Fellow of the Royal Anthropological
Institute.
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