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| '''Darko Trifunović''' ({{lang-sr|Дарко Трифуновић}}) is a lawyer and professor at the Faculty of Security Studies of the ].<ref name="hayat05jan08">"Bosnian Muslims extremists object to Serb terrorism expert addressing European conference". Report from TV Hayat, Sarajevo, 1800 GMT, 5 January 2008. Via BBC Monitoring.</ref> He formerly worked as a diplomat for the foreign ministry of ]. After leaving the diplomatic service in controversial circumstances, he prepared a widely criticized report for the ] (]) government which dispute that there had been a ] during the ]. He moved on to his current position at the University of Belgrade, where he has specialized in the study of ]. | |||
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| == Career == | |||
| In the late 1990s, Trifunović worked as a member of the Republika Srpska legal expert commission, where he spoke out strongly against the ].Bosnian Serb legal expert says Hague tribunal using medieval methods" particularly after the assassinations of Simo Drljaca and Dragan Gagovic. SRNA news agency, 3 August 1998. Via BBC Monitoring.</ref> When he was appointed to serve as the First Secretary of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Mission to the ], he became the focus of public criticism after the Bosnian Muslim press accused him of having "represented Bosnia in New York in a scandalous way, and did everything possible to promote Belgrade's interests."<ref name="hina12mar02">"Bosnian Diplomat's Citizenship Revoked". HINA, Croatia, 12 March 2002. Via BBC Monitoring.</ref> | |||
| He was suspended from duty at the UN in March 2002 after the illegal decision of Bosnian Foreign Ministry. Bosnian Foreign Ministry headed on that time by Muslim hard liners announced that it had discovered that Trifunovic had obtained Bosnian citizenship illegally. Bosnia-Herzegovina Ministry for Civilian Affairs and Communications only institution with jurisdiction over the citizenship confirmed that Trifunovic is citizen of Bosnia and declare as illegal any decision of the Bosnian Foreign Ministry without any jurisdiction over the citizenship status of any citizen of Bosnia. Furthermore, Trifunović asserted that Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia attempted illegally stripped of his Bosnia-Herzegovina citizenship and that he was illegally dismissed from his job.<ref>"Bosnian UN mission diplomat accuses Foreign Ministry of human rights violations". SRNA news agency, 13 June 2002. Via BBC Monitoring.</ref> He accused the Bosnian government of dismissing him because he had found connections between another diplomat at the mission and two Islamic charities that had been closed down for allegedly having links with ].<ref>"Bosnian diplomat says he was fired for revealing colleague's Al-Qaeda ties". SRNA news agency, 7 August 2002. Via BBC Monitoring.</ref> | |||
| ===Srebrenica massacre report controversy=== | |||
| In September 2002, the Bosnian Serb government's Bureau for Relations with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia issued a Report No I disputing the Srebrenica massacre of August 1995. The report, prepared on the basis on that time available information by Trifunović, asserted that that about 2500-3000 Bosnian Muslims had died at Srebrenica instead of the 7,000-8,000 reported by international investigators and that only about 100 had been killed in summary executions.<ref>"", Apis Group, 2006</ref> The report was condemned by the international community and human rights institutions.<ref>"?" TIME magazine, 11 September 2002</ref> The ICTY had ruled a year earlier that nearly 8,000 Muslims had been murdered in an act of genocide and convicted General ] for his involvement in the crime.<ref>"". BBC News Online, 2 August 2001.</ref> Two years after Trifunović's report was issued, the Bosnian Serb government finally admitted the scale of the killings.<ref>"". BBC News Online, 14 October 2004</ref>The Report No I was significant because it was the first time that Bosnian Serb recognize that atrocities happened in Srebrenica. After Report No I, Bosnian Serb Government issued serial reports in order to discover the facts. | |||
| ===Views on Radical Muslim Terrorist's=== | |||
| After leaving the Bosnian foreign ministry (Trifunovic sue the Bosnia and Herzegovina and trial is in the final stage), Trifunović subsequently moved on to the Faculty of Security Studies of the University of Belgrade, where he continues to work in the field of ]. Trifunović's views on ] have been the focus of significant public controversy among the radical Muslim circles in Bosnia; he has repeatedly asserted that ], ] and Bosnia are being infiltrated by ] extremists. He has published a number of works on this general theme, arguing that Bosnia-Herzegovina is the nexus for an international network of Islamic terrorists who are directly linked to ]. Titles include "Islamic Fundamentalists, Global Network and Modus Operandi: Model Bosnia", "The Roots of Terrorism in Bosnia-Herzegovina and its Classic Forms" and "Terrorism and Organized Crime in Southeast Europe: the Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina". He asserts that four of the nineteen hijackers in the 9/11 attacks had Bosnian connections.<ref name="hayat05jan08" /> | |||
| In 2003, he visited the US capital ] where he briefed members of the ] that "a group of about 300 young Kosovo Albanians the concept of a Greater Muslim state, was trained in northern Albania and then transferred to Kosovo with their trainers, ] fighters from Middle Eastern and North African countries."<ref>"Bosnian Al-Qaeda members plan attacks on NATO - terrorism expert". SRNA news agency, 17 October 2003. Via BBC Monitoring.</ref> Following the March ], he asserted that the anti-Serb violence was "just the latest in a string of operations undertaken by Al Qaeda in the past few weeks" and that terrorist brigades and weapons were "pouring in" to the ] region of ] and ].<ref>"Attacks in Kosovo are work of Al Qaeda". ''Glas javnosti'', Belgrade, 19 March 2004. Via BBC Monitoring.</ref> | |||
| Trifunović has also advocated taking a hard line on ]. In December 2007, he told the ] daily newspaper '']'' that "the very moment ] declares independence, ] does not invalidate that decision, and the first state recognizes Kosovo, Belgrade must order tanks to go to Kosovo, the province to be shelled and returned under the sovereignty of Serbia, where it belongs under ]." He asserted that it was an open question as to whether Western countries had also secretly promised independence to the ] of ], the ] of ] and various other peoples in ].<ref>"Time Has Come For Us To Show Our Teeth". ''Glas javnosti'', Belgrade, 11 December 2007. Via BBC Monitoring.</ref> | |||
| A major protests from radical Muslim groups broke out in early January 2008 when it was announced that Trifunović had been invited to be a key speaker at the ], to be held in ] at the end of the month. The news attracted fierce criticism from members of the Bosnjaci.net portal, the Congress of Bosniaks in] and the Sarajevo-based Centre for Advanced Studies (organization belong to radical islamist's and Wahabby).<ref name="hayat05jan08" /> The invitation was protested by ], the Bosnia-Herzegovina controversial security minister and deputy chair of the ]. Trifunović canceled his planned trip to Germany, asserting that he had received death threats from Muslim extremists.<ref>"". Adnkronos International, 21 January 2008</ref>The ] followed up in February 2008 with an open letter to European, US, Serbian and Bosnian ministers, governments and police services, in which they criticized Trifunović as "a self-proclaimed 'expert on Islamist terrorism'" and urged an end to "all contact and co-operation with Dr Trifunović with immediate effect. Report was prepare from Muslim extremist working with Society for Threatened Peoples office in Sarajevo."<ref>"". Society for Threatened Peoples, 19 February 2008.</ref> | |||
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