Srđa Trifković Срђа Трифковић | |
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 Trifković in May 2011. | |
| Born | (1954-07-19)19 July 1954 (age 71) |
| Education | University of Sussex (BA Hon) University of Zagreb (BA) University of Southampton (PhD) |
| Occupation | Foreign affairs editor forChronicles |
Srđa Trifković (Serbian Cyrillic:Срђа Трифковић,Serbian pronunciation:[sr̩̂dʑatrîfkɔʋitɕ]; born 19 July 1954) is a Serbian-American publicist, politician and historian. He is currently a foreign affairs editor for thepaleoconservative magazineChronicles,[1] and a politics professor at theUniversity of Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina.[2]
Trifković is the author of many books, among which isSword of the Prophet, a book on what Trifković describes as the history, doctrines, and impact of Islam on the world. He comments on Balkan politics and was a columnist for a few think-tank webpages and conservative publications in the United States.
He was an unofficial spokesman for theRepublika Srpska government in the 1990s[3] and a former adviser to Serbian presidentVojislav Koštunica and Republika Srpska presidentBiljana Plavšić.[4] He has argued that the accepted interpretation of theSrebrenica genocide is a "myth based on a lie".[5]
Trifković earned aBA (Hon) in International Relations from theUniversity of Sussex in 1977 and another, in Political Science, from theUniversity of Zagreb in 1987. Since 1990 he has held aPhD in modern history from theUniversity of Southampton, and in 1991-1992 he pursued post-doctoral research on a Title VIII grant from theU.S. Department of State as a visiting scholar at theHoover Institution inCalifornia.[6]
Beginning in 1980, he has been a radio broadcaster forBBC World Service andVoice of America and later a correspondent covering southeastEurope forU.S. News & World Report and theWashington Times during which time he was an editor for the Belgrade magazineDuga. In 1994–95 he acted as an "unofficial spokesman" for theBosnian Serb government (while preferring to describe himself as a "Balkan affairs analyst with close links to the Bosnian Serbs").[3][7] He has published op-eds and commentaries inThe Times of London, theSan Francisco Chronicle, theAmerican Conservative,[8] thePhiladelphia Inquirer, andThe Alternative RightArchived 25 July 2011 at theWayback Machine. He was interviewed in 1994 byBBC World Service andSky News.[9] He has contributed toLiberty, the newspaper of theSerbian National Defense Council of America.[10]
He has been an adjunct professor at theUniversity of St Thomas inHouston, Texas (1996–1997), and, in August 1997, joined the faculty of Rose Hill College inAiken, South Carolina. He has worked as unofficial representative of theRepublika Srpska in London.[7]
In February 2000, he testified to the Canadian House of Commons on the situation in the Balkans.[11] In July 2000 he took part in a Congressional briefing organized by Rep.Dennis Kucinich.[12]
In March 2003, he testified as a defense witness forMilomir Stakić at his trial before theInternational Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.[13] Stakić was later convicted of extermination, murder and persecutions and sentenced to 40 years' imprisonment.[14]
In June 2006, he was one of two dozen people who presented works at a symposium on the Holocaust in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945, co-organized by two Serbian institutions and held atYad Vashem Center in Jerusalem. In September 2008, he testified as a defense witness forLjubiša Beara in the Popović et al. trial.[15] Beara was later convicted of genocide, extermination, murder, persecutions and sentenced to life imprisonment.[16]
He is affiliated with thecounter-jihad movement,[17] having participated as the keynote speaker at the international counter-jihad conferences in Vienna in 2008 and in Copenhagen in 2009.[18]
Trifković participated and was one of the principal speakers at the conferencePreserving Western Civilization, organized byWhite separatist,Michael H. Hart,[19] held inBaltimore in 2009. It was billed as addressing the need to defend "America's Judeo-Christian heritage and European identity", and included speakers such asLawrence Auster,Peter Brimelow, Steven Farron,Julia Gorin,Lino A. Graglia,Henry C. Harpending, Roger D. McGrath,Pat Richardson,J. Philippe Rushton, and Brenda Walker.[20][21]
In February 2011, Canadian authorities refused to allow Trifković entry into Canada to address a meeting at theUniversity of British Columbia at Vancouver.[22] Trifković reported in the journalChronicles that he was refused entry to Canada on 24 February 2011 on the "transparently spurious" grounds that he was "inadmissible on grounds of violating human or international rights for being aproscribed senior official in the service of a government that, in the opinion of the minister, engages or has engaged in terrorism, systematic or gross human rights violations, or genocide, a war crime or a crime against humanity within the meaning of subsections 6 (3) to (5) of the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act."[22] He claimed his "inadmissibility" was due to contacts with theBosnian Serb leaders in the early 1990s but claimed that the Canadian authorities' grounds for refusing him admission were "transparently spurious" and they had in fact yielded to a Bosniak-inspired campaign against him.[22] The Canadian Institute for the Research of Genocide alleged that Trifković was promoting hatred,antisemitism andIslamophobia and accused him of publicly denying massacre of Bosniaks atSrebrenica in July 1995, found by theICTY to be a crime of genocide.[23]
In August 2011, responding to the claim that his work inspired Norwegian murdererAnders Behring Breivik,[24] Trifković rejected the idea that his work was a basis for the actions of this "mentally deranged narcissistic psychopath" any more than the "Beatles have inspiredCharles Manson."[25] These claims were raised in relation to an observations Trifković made on Islam in his booksSword of the Prophet andDefeating Jihad, and in the documentary film "Islam – What the West needs to know", which are cited by Breivik in his manifesto.[26]
In 2013 he testified on behalf ofRadovan Karadžić. Trifković denied being a former spokesman for Karadžić at a time he was a journalist and analyst reporting on Karadžić's activities.[27]
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