This paper by a former ICTY judge sheds interesting light on ICTY, perhaps unintentionally. Our associate Jonathan Rooper added some annotations in red type to her text to highlight some of the most questionable of the points she makes. Judge Wald’s Alice in Wonderland paper about her experience as one of the trial judges in the…
The Sham of the Hague Tribunal: The ICTY “legacy”
The Balkan Conflicts Research Team is continuously producing superb, hard-hitting and intellectually provocative Twitters about Srebrenica and the Hague Tribunal. We highly recommend them to our readers who may follow them by visiting their Twitter account at: Balkan Conflicts Research Team@ResearchTeam The tweet on ICTY’s “legacy” is their latest production. What is the ICTY legacy? From well…
Prof. Višeslav Simić: ICTY and the Manufacture of History
Prof. Višeslav Simić is a Serbian political scientist and a major intellectual figure, currently living and working in Mexico. He has written extensively on a wide range of issues, including current affairs. In the essay that follows he argues that ICTY has played a nefarious role not only in perverting international justice, but also in…
George Szamuely: Defining Genocide Down – The Case of Srebrenica
Srebrenica is the main business of the Hague Tribunal and establishing genocide in Srebrenica is the court’s principal political task. Prof. George Szamuely closely examines the Tribunal’s questionable legal rationale used in arguing its Srebrenica genocide case. Genocide, which had not featured at Nuremburg, is the pride and glory of the U.N. tribunals. The International…
The Sham of the Hague Teibunal: The ICTYʼs Rules of Evidence
The Balkan Conflicts Research Team is continuously producing superb, hard-hitting and intellectually provocative Twitters about Srebrenica and the Hague Tribunal. We highly recommend them to our readers who may follow them by visiting their Twitter account at: Balkan Conflicts Research Team@ResearchTeam What are ‘Rules of Evidenceʼ? The principles applied to the admission of the various kinds of evidence…
The Sham of the Hague Tribunal: The ICTY and the silence of the lambs
The Balkan Conflicts Research Team is continuously producing superb, hard-hitting and intellectually provocative Twitters about Srebrenica and the Hague Tribunal. We highly recommend them to our readers who may follow them by visiting their Twitter account at: Balkan Conflicts Research Team@ResearchTeam You may view this Tweet at: https://twitter.com/ResearchTeam/status/1268827074883706880?s=20 Has the Hague Tribunal been properly monitored and supervised by the…
The Sham of the Hague Tribunal: The ICTY’s profound ignorance
The Balkan Conflicts Research Team is continuously producing superb, hard-hitting and intellectually provocative Twitters about Srebrenica and the Hague Tribunal. We highly recommend them to our readers who may follow them by visiting their Twitter account at: Balkan Conflicts Research Team@ResearchTeam You may view this Tweet at: https://twitter.com/ResearchTeam/status/1266282068658360323?s=20 How thorough was the ICTY’s research on the Balkan Conflicts? Woefully…
Jonathan Rooper on the Srebrenica cover-up
The “Srebrenica cover-up” story was improvised to explain the embarrassing dearth of bodies of execution victims that became manifest shortly after exhumations began. As late as the Krstić trial judgment in 2001, even the Prosecution friendly Chamber was forced to admit that no satisfactory evidence of a Srebrenica cover-up, involving the massive reburial of bodies…
Jonathan Rooper on ICTY bias
Bias is the International Criminal Tribunal For the Former Yugoslavia’s other name. There is one charge that might naively be against the Tribunal that would never stick. It is the charge that it is an impartial court of law. British journalist and former BBC editor Jonathan Rooper, an astute observer of the Hague Tribunal and…