PROSECUTORS, BE CAREFUL TO USE CORRECT FIGURES!

The Hague Tribunal prosecutors should be more vigilant in updating their records with the factual number of genocide victims. Take the following note:

PHOTO: Radovan Karadzic is charged with the Bosnian Genocide and the Srebrenica genocide at the Hague Tribunal.

A note the the ICTY Office of the Prosecutor:

In the indictment against Radovan Karadzic, he is charged with: "...killing over 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys of Srebrenica through both organised and opportunistic executions."

In fact, the DNA results of the International Commission on Missing Persons support the figure of 8,100 Srebrenica genocide victims. Therefore, there is absolutely no excuse for the ICTY Prosecutors to use anything lower than the figure of 8,100 victims.

The number of "more than 7,000" (as indicated in the Karadzic indictment) refers to the outdated (minimum) figure of 7.475 victims from 2004. According to Helge Brunborg's testimony in the trial of Vidoje Blagojevic, the Hague Tribunals' expert stated that at least 7,475 Bosniaks perished in the Srebrenica genocide. However, Brunborg warned that "the number is very reliable as a minimum estimate... the number could easily be higher because there were records that we excluded to be on the safe side."

As of July 11 2009, DNA results of the International Commission on Missing Persons support an estimate of 8,100 Srebrenica genocide victims. So far, the identities of 6,186 genocide victims have been revealed by the DNA analysis. Therefore, there is absolutely no excuse for the ICTY Prosecutors to use anything lower than the figure of 8,000 victims.