Abstract
After the fall of Srebrenica in summer of 1995, the Scorpions unit, dispatched to support the Bosnian Serb Army as it took over the enclave, shot six men in Trnovo. The men, three of whom were underage, were some of thousands of Bosnian Muslims that fell into the hands of Bosnian Serb troops, and that were executed in the days and weeks following July 11th. A member of the unit filmed the execution. Fragments of the video were first shown during the Slobodan Milosevic trial, and multiple times in the years after, in the courtrooms in The Hague and Belgrade. The video provides unique insights into the nature of the crime, as well as the behavior of the perpetrators, and this article will discuss them in detail, contributing to what we know about Srebrenica, and how individuals are held accountable for mass atrocity crimes.
Acknowledgements
I wish to thank the Archives and Records Section of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals and my colleagues Vladimir Petrović and Jelena Stevančević on the assistance they provided as I worked on this article.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.12.2.1527
Recommended Citation
Vukušić, Iva
(2018)
"Nineteen Minutes of Horror: Insights from the Scorpions Execution Video,"
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal:
Vol. 12:
Iss.
2:
35-53.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.12.2.1527
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol12/iss2/5
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