Conflict In Numbers, Casualties of the 1990's Wars in the Former Yugoslavia

The chronologically earliest demographic expert report appeared in a court hearing at ICTY in June 2000. The report was related to the missing persons from the fall of Srebrenica in 1995 and presented in the General KRSTIC case (IT-98-33). It was authored by two Norwegian demographers, Helge Brunborg, a senior researcher permanently affiliated with Statistics Norway and at the time of writing of the report also a demographer in the Office of the Prosecution (OTP), ICTY, and Henrik Urdal – then an investigation assistant in the OTP, ICTY; later a researcher in the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. The report was requested from the demographers by the Prosecutor of the KRSTIC case and was meant to summarize the victimization of the fall of Srebrenica. Even though the data used for the report was exclusively on missing persons and no records of confirmed deaths from exhumations were used (as those were practically unavailable at the time of the KRSTIC trial), the report and the testimony of the OTP expert Helge Brunborg resulted in a great deal of success; severa essential references were made in the judgement of the KRSTIC case to the demographic evidence from this report.