http://www.serb-victims.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=223&Itemid=1 Institute for Research on Suffering of the Serbs in XX c. Démarche to Secretary General UN <http://www.serb-victims.org/en/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=223&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=1> <http://www.serb-victims.org/en/index2.php?option=com_content&task=emailform&id=223&itemid=1> President of UN General Ansambly Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki No. I-1-16/2010 Belgrade, 17 June 2010 *Excellency,* The Institute for Researching into the Plight of Serbs in the 20th Century wishes to draw your attention to a disputable part of the Report of the UN Secretary General of 15 November 1999 (1) , based on the UN General Assembly resolution 53/35 of 30 November 1998, which reads as follows: “After Srebrenica fell under the siege of the Serbian forces in July 1995, a horrendous massacre of the Muslim population took place. The evidence presented by the Prosecution includes scenes of unprecedented savagery: thousands of people were killed and buried in mass graves; hundreds of people were buried alive; men and women were dismembered and slaughtered; children were murdered before their mothers’ eyes, a grandfather was forced to eat his grandson’s liver. Those scenes were truly scenes from hell, inscribed in the darkest pages of human history”. This part of the Report of the UN Secretary-General was taken from the statement by Mr. Fuad Ryad, a judge of the International Tribunal for War Crimes Committed in the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which was also included in the ICTY press release of 16 November 1995 (2) in connection with the expansion of the indictment against Dr. Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic. The cited segment of the Report of the UN Secretary-General contains monstrous allegations against Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which have not been corroborated by facts even after a period of fifteen years. The best proof of this is the fact that in the trial proceedings conducted against persons of Serbian nationality, the Prosecution of the said Tribunal failed to bring any witnesses who could confirm any of those allegations or present valid proofs of their authenticity. Notwithstanding, the Institute for Researching into the Plight of Serbs in the 20th Century thoroughly examined the disputable allegations contained in the Report of the UN Secretary General and undeniably established that they were absolutely unfounded. Namely, it established the following: • the grandfather who was forced to eat his grandson’s liver was fabricated; • murder of children before their mothers’ eyes was fabricated; • the statement that men and women were dismembered and slaughtered was fabricated; • burying people alive was fabricated; • the number of men who died defending Srebrenica was considerably augmented; the exact number has not yet been established. The Institute would further like to underline the following facts: 1.Unfounded are the allegations cited in the aforementioned Report, which were supported by major international organizations during the past decade and endlessly repeated in mass media and the documents of numerous states, serving as a proof in the propaganda campaign against the Serbian people during the war conflicts in the territory of the former Yugoslavia. 2. The Report of the UN Secretary-General, in spite of covering the 1993-1995 period, failed even to refer to the plight of Serbs in the territory of the Commune of Srebrenica. 3. The Report also failed to mention the incontestable fact that out of 9,390 members of Serb nationality living in the Commune of Srebrenica only 860 or merely 9% remained after the Muslim criminal attack from May 1992 to February 1993. 4. Furthermore, the Report failed to mention the “Memorandum on War Crimes and Crimes of Genocide in Eastern Bosnia (Communes of Bratunac, Skelani and Srebrenica) Committed against the Serbian Population from April 1992 to April 1993”(3) which was presented to the relevant UN Security Council service on 2 June 1993. Excellency, The Institute for Researching into the Plight of Serbs in the 20th Century appeals on you, for the sake of truth, to release a corrigendum of the above mentioned part of the Report of the UN Secretary-General of 15 November 1999. If that is not possible for whatever reasons, the Institute kindly requests that you urge the UN Secretariat to consider this communication addressed to you as a document of the United Nations and to circulate it to all the addressees of the Report of the UN Secretary-General of 15 November 1999. Please accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration. *Institute for Research on Suffering of the Serbs in the XX Century* *Director* *Milivoje Ivanisevic* c/c Secretary General UN, New York, Mr Ban Ki-Mun Chairman of the UN Security Council, Mr. Claude Heller Rouassant 1) 99-3486(E)271199; United Nations A/54/549; General Assembly Distr.: General, 15 November 1999, Fifty-fourth session, Agenda Item 42: The Situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina Report of the Secretary-General Pursuant to General Assembly resolution 53/35 2) Press release issued by the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (cc/PIO/026-E) The Hague, 16 November 1999. 3) Permanent Mission of the FRY to the UN, 2 June 1993 “Memorandum on War Crimes and Crimes of Genocide in Eastern Bosnia (Communes of Bratunac, Skelani and Srebrenica) Committed against the Serbian Population from April 1992 to April 1993”
