Each January 7, the Orthodox Christmas day marks the anniversary of the 1993 attack on the Serbian village of Kravica committed by Muslim forces from Srebrenica under the command of Naser Orić. Several dozen villagers were killed in the attack, the remaining Serbian population was forced to flee to safety, and many homes were pillaged, demolished…
“Funding justice” – a comparative analysis (2008)
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has been held up as a model of international justice in situations where for a variety of reasons it is thought that delivering justice is beyond the capacity of domestic legal systems. The author, Rupert Skilbeck, is a barrister with international tribunal experience in Bosnia, Cambodia, and…
Nathan Dershowitz: The doctrine of Joint Criminal Enterprise in the jurisprudence of ICTY
Lecture delivered by attorney Nathan Dershowitz at the International Symposium on Srebrenica and ICTY at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow in April 2009. The longstanding principle of nullum crimen sine lege — holding that a person should not be held criminally responsible for conduct that was not criminal at the time of the…
Edward S. Herman & David Peterson: The New York Times on the Yugoslavia Tribunal – A Study in total propaganda service (2004)
Anybody reading “Not Guilty: Report of the Commission of Inquiry Into the Charges Made Against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials” (1937), written by a group chaired by John Dewey, can only be struck by the frequent parallels between Soviet and ICTY principles and court procedure.The Dewey Commission stressed the political and public relations function…
Jovana Pavlovic: ICTY – Power over justice
This thesis examines the way that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is politicized. This thesis begins with an explanatory theoretical framework of two schools of International Relations: realism and cosmopolitanism. Those two schools of thought outline how agents function in the International arena of anarchy, eminently states. In this thesis, we will…
Thomas C. Mountain: Rwanda indicts French generals for 1994 genocide (2017)
Late in 2016, the Rwandan government indicted several senior French Army generals for crimes against humanity, including genocide for their role in the 1994 Rwandan holocaust. Rwanda events do not necessarily tie in with those in Srebrenica, but many rough analogies may be drawn. One potential analogy, subject to the acquisition of further specific evidence,…
Gordon N. Bardos: Trials and Tribulations: Politics as Justice at the ICTY (2013)
“The tribunal’s costs have been astronomical; the final price tag will probably run over $2 billion. Legal scholar and anthropologist Robert Hayden has estimated that the ICTY will have spent about $14 million per individual trial. The ICTY’s budget for 2012–13 was approximately $251 million. By way of comparison, this year’s total annual budget of…