“I discussed the operation to transport the women and children to Kladanj and separate, detain and kill the able-bodied in Potocari.”

 

 

May 2003 guilty plea of Bosnian Serb intelligence officer Momir Nikolic at the ICTY. Nikolic served as the chief of security and intelligence in the Bratunac Brigade of the Drina Corps, which was part of the Bosnian Serb army (VRS). Nikolic admitted that the Srebrenica massacre was the result of a premeditated plan and described his own responsibilities in coordinating the logistics for the separation and transportation of Bosnian Muslim men and in locating suitable sites for their detention and subsequent execution.

For the transcripts of the ICTY case on Momir Nikolic, see: www.un.org/icty, “ICTY Cases and Judgements,” Nikolic, Momir. For Nikolic’s 2003 admission of guilt, see: “Plea Agreement” and “Consolidated Facts.”