Amir Ahmić was appointed Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Liaison Officer with the ICTY in 1998, at the suggestion of the then Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Alija Izetbegović. Izetbegović was also the first president of the internationally recognized Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and supported the government’s efforts to cooperate fully with the ICTY/IRMCT.

Today, he is considered one of the leading experts on issues related to the investigation of war crimes committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995, and other processes related to collaboration with the Office of the Prosecutor and the work of the ICTY/ IRMCT.

His support for Preporod, the Islamic Community’s gazette in Bosnia and Herzegovina, facilitated many of the interviews included in this book.

„Judgment against Karadžić is a victory for Bosnian society. The judgment is a legal legacy of the UN, because the ICTY/IRMCT was established by the UN Security Council. Of course, there are international and political decisions, actions by states and state organizations, there are resolutions, documents, and stories at the highest level about the ICTY, but without the Bosnian people seeking justice there would be no ICTY/IRMCT, and consequently no verdict. Since the ICTY was formed, the Bosnian people have responded to the call to prosecute criminals. Tens of thousands of Bosnians have contributed by testifying, gathering evidence, cooperating, in short, each fighting in his or her own way. It should be noted that the Islamic Community has also made a special contribution through the testimony of imams before the ICTY. This ranges from the study on the destruction of Islamic Community facilities, which was used as evidence, to the support of the overall process of the ICTY. Without Bosnian patriotism and determination to bring criminals to justice, the ICTY would not have fulfilled its mandate.“

„In reaching a verdict before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the B&H lawsuit against the FRY/Serbia and Montenegro, ICJ judges violated their statute and issued an illegal decision, stating that the ICTY is not competent to “determine the responsibility of states,” and that it is not in the ICTY’s mandate to determine the nature of the conflict in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). On the contrary, the ICTY had, and still has, a mandate to determine that. If the judges of the International Court of Justice had accepted the ICTY verdicts establishing aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina, which were submitted as evidence by the Bosnian side, then the result could have been different and Serbia may well have been directly convicted of genocide in B&H. The biggest legal hoax of the International Court of Justice was the decision not to recognize the ICTY’s verdicts on aggression, which were written clearly, right at the beginning of their verdicts. The ICTY concluded that the Bosnian Serb forces were agents of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), that they acted in the name of, and on behalf of, the FRY, that they had identical goals and a unified organization in B&H, and that the individual actions of Bosnian Serbs did not have to be proven, because there was a principle of general control from Belgrade. The latter was perhaps our strongest evidence of Serbia’s direct responsibility. Unfortunately, the ICJ judges immediately violated their statute, and made the false conclusion that the ICTY had no right to determine the nature of the conflict in the former SFRY. These international legal acrobatics clearly show that the ICTY has established, through a series of judgments, that Serbia and Croatia committed aggression against BiH.“

„Preporod has continuously followed developments, reported and published interviews with key ICTY people from Serge Brammertz to Theodor Meron, and others who worked for the Tribunal. It has also published “ordinary” stories about the lives of the victims and their activities, and provided them with support.“

„Witnesses. Without them, there are no procedures. Victims are key, and their efforts are greatly appreciated at the ICTY. Th en, the commitment of the Prosecutor. In a way, the Prosecutor represents the victims, so without mutual trust between those two parties there is no process.“

„The state strategy has failed, regional cooperation does not exist, and Serbia and Croatia have become refuges for war criminals, much like certain South American countries that harbored Nazis after World War II. To be protected from prosecution for crimes committed in B&H, it is enough to have Serbian or Croatian citizenship. As I see it, the only way out is for the ICTY’s legacy to be applied, and that will not happen until the international community brings order to the judiciary. If they just started reading the ICTY verdicts they would have something to do for the next 20 years, because those verdicts are full of the names of criminals and evidence of their crimes.“

„The Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina gave the ICTY everything that was needed regarding crimes against Bosniaks, from requests for the testimony of imams and of its members who worked on various studies of destruction and damage suffered by the Community, to support for victims and witnesses, and monitoring within the Community and beyond. It also provided support for the ICTY/IRMCT Liaison Office.“