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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 object to Serb terrorism expert addressing European conference". Report please make clear source, this source do not show what is quoted???? here 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 {please make source which clearly refere on quotation here), he authored (???? please make source...where you find that dr Darko Trifunovic "authored"????) a widely criticized report for the ] (]) government which denied that there had been a ] (what is relationon between leaving diplomatic post and report in case???? (please make source) during the ]. He moved on to his current position at the University of Belgrade, where he has specialised in the study of ] (please make any source that prove that dr Darko Trifunovic specialised study of Islamic terrorism??????) . His views on the subject have been criticised by many ] organisations. | |||
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| == Career == | |||
| ===Citizenship controversy (this is nonsense) Citizenship can't be matter of controversy!!!! === | |||
| In the late 1990s, Trifunović worked as a member of the Republika Srpska legal expert commission (please add full name Rebublik of Srpska Legal Experts Commission for the Cooperation with ICTY), where he spoke out strongly against the ]'s indictment of senior Bosnian Serb ] and civil officials.<ref>"Bosnian Serb legal expert says Hague tribunal using medieval methods". SRNA news agency, 3 August 1998. Via BBC Monitoring.</ref> (misinterpretation - Dr Trifunovic spoke strongly against secret accusation of ICTY which is relict of Inquisition) every suspect criminal have right before the Court-Basic Human Rights for individuals to know for which crimes is accused. | |||
| When he was appointed to serve as the First Secretary of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Mission to the ], he became the focus of public controversy 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 (make source of that. Dr Trifunovic was not suspended, he was fired) from duty at the UN in March 2002 after the Bosnian Foreign Ministry announced that it had discovered that he had obtained Bosnian citizenship illegally (make refrence on that which include how Ministry of Foreign Affarires can deal with somebody citizenship without Court decision?????). A check of the citizenship of all state administration officials, undertaken as a counter-terrorist action following the ] in the ], found that Trifunović was legally a citizen (make reference on that??????) of the then ]. According to the Bosnian government (please make reference????), he had been born in Belgrade, where he requested a change of residence in 1996 before submitting a request for a residence permit in the Bosnian border town of ] (plase support this claims with relevant reference????). The authorities of the Republika Srpska had then issued him with Bosnian documents. He was stripped of his Bosnian citizenship by the government of the ],<ref name="hina12mar02" /> but this was overturned in April 2002 by the Bosnia-Herzegovina Ministry for Civilian Affairs and Communications. (make reference how dr Trifunovic was re confirm citizenship????) He was nonetheless recalled to Bosnia-Herzegovina.<ref>"Bosnian Foreign Ministry partially revokes suspension of official". SRNA news agency, 10 June 2002. Via BBC Monitoring.</ref> (nonces) | |||
| Trifunović asserted that he had been illegally stripped of his Bosnia-Herzegovina citizenship and 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 denying the Srebrenica massacre of August 1995 (please make any relevant reference????). The report, authored (please make relevant reference????) by Trifunović, asserted that the massacre had never happened, that only about 1,800 Bosnian Muslims had died at Srebrenica (in combat rather than in a massacre) 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 (please add that it is a case of individual responsibility not state) involvement in the crime.<ref>"". BBC News Online, 2 August 2001.</ref> Two years after (make reference on that. This is not a Trifunovi'c report, this is a case of Govermental Report - can't be personalized) Trifunović's report was issued, the Bosnian Serb government finally admitted the scale of the killings.<ref>"". BBC News Online, 14 October 2004</ref> | |||
| ===Views on Islamic terrorism=== | |||
| After leaving the Bosnian foreign ministry, Trifunović subsequently moved on to the Faculty of Security Studies of the University of Belgrade, where he continues to work in the field of ] (nonces - please add relevant reference on that). Trifunović's views on ] (nonces - please add relevant reference on that) have been the focus of significant public controversy; 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 seven 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 controversy ( 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 (pure Muslim extremist organization) o piu.<ref name="hayat05jan08" /> The invitation was protested by ], the Bosnia-Herzegovina security minister and deputy chair of the ]. Trifunović was dropped (nonces-dr Darko Trifunovic is on the list even today ref . sent a letter of complaint, in which he declared that he would not attend the conference if Trifunović attended, accused Trifunović of "belong to a gathering of propagandists" and denounced him as "a man who presented a great deal of falsified facts, prejudices, and ideological stereotypes about Muslims and Islam."<ref>"Europe Finds Interesting Trifunovic's Story about Islamic Terrorism". '']'', Sarajevo. 16 January 2008. Via BBC Monitoring.</ref> The ] (report by Muslim corespondent from Sarajevo) followed up in February 2008 with an open letter to European, US, Serbian and Bosnian ministers, governments and police services, in which they criticised Trifunović as "a self-proclaimed (nonces - please add relevant reference on that)'expert on Islamist terrorism'" and urged an end to "all contact and co-operation with Dr Trifunović with immediate effect."<ref>"". Society for Threatened Peoples, 19 February 2008.</ref> Trifunović cancelled his planned trip to Germany, asserting that he had received death threats from Muslim extremists.<ref>"". Adnkronos International, 21 January 2008</ref> | |||
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