On 25 May 1995 (Marshal Tito's birthday and Relay of Youth in former Yugoslavia) at 20:55 hours, a high-explosive fragmentation shell fired by a 130mm towed artillery piece, detonated in a cafe located in Kapija Square.

[4] Tuzla mayor Selim Bešlagić made a statement to the United Nations Security Council the same day calling the VRS "fascists" and urging "For the sake of The God and humanity use the force finally.

"[7] On 25 and 26 May, NATO carried out air strikes against VRS ammunition depots in Pale after violations of the Exclusion Zones and shelling of UN Safe Areas.

[8] The municipality of Tuzla has opened a small memorial museum near the Kapija, where to remember the established facts about the massacre of 25 May 1995 and its 71 victims,[9] including all the documents from the trial, thanks to the cooperation with the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network.

[12] Đukić was released in February 2014, after the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina had nullified a series of rulings due to misapplication of the law (Maktouf-Damjanovic issue).

[17] The Office of the High Representative said Dodik denied the war crimes committed and stated that "When such skewed facts come from an official in a position of high responsibility, an official who is obliged to uphold the Dayton Peace Accords and cooperate with the Hague Tribunal, then they are particularly irresponsible and undermine not only the institutions responsible for upholding the rule of law, but the credibility of the individual himself".

[18] In March 2019, in an interview with the Serbian tabloid Večernje Novosti, Đukić claimed that “he deserves to have his name on the Tuzla Monument” and blamed the attack on a bomb hidden by "seven Islamic terrorists".

The Radio Televizija Republike Srpske (RTRS) public channel, which reported on the revisionist statements, was later fined for 6.000 EUR by the Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina for breach of ’fairness and impartiality’ as well as ’protection of privacy’.

The Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović criticized the promotion of the book and stated that it "falsified the facts about the crime that took place in 1995 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.