ISBN 978-3-85371-292-4, br., ca. 160 S., ca. 13,90 Euro, 26.- sFr. Edition Brennpunkt Osteuropa Civikov, Germinal: Srebrenica: The Crown Witness ISBN 978-3-85371-292-4, br., ca. 160 S., ca. 13,90 Euro, 26.- sFr.

    At the beginning of March, 1996 the Bosnian Croatian Dražen Erdemović is arrested in Yugoslavia. He confesses to have been involved on the 16th July, 1995 as a member of a special unit of the Bosnian-Serbian army in the shooting of 1200 Moslem civilians from Srebrenica. At the end of March, 1996 he is delivered by Belgrade to the Yugoslavia tribunal in the Hague where he repeats his confession. Besides, Erdemović every time calls the names of his six accomplices and his superiors, alleging that the general staff of the Bosnian-Serbian army would have ordered the action. Erdemović becomes the principal witness for the prosecution for one of the worst war crimes, the mass execution of Srebrenica. For the murder of 70 to 100 civilians whose shooting he himself is alleged to have carried out, Dražen Erdemović is condemned to only five years of prison. Since 2000 he lives with a new, "protected" identity in a West European country and appears regularly before the tribunal as a witness, in cases where the accusation of the genocide has been raised.