The “hanging judge” monicker from the title is perhaps an exaggeration. If so, very likely the only reason for that is that the ICTY Statute does not provide for a death sentence, which is not to say that some highly suspicious and convenient deaths may not have been engineered within its facilities. If the possibility…
Geoffroy Lorin de la Grandmaison: International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the forensic pathologist and ethics
French forensic medicine specialist Geoffroy de la Grandmaison points out numerous issues with the Srebrenica forensic picture. From the summary of the academic article that follows: “Forensic pathologists involved in the ICTY missions could be subjected to ethical tensions. In order to study the nature of such tensions, review of the literature and analysis of forensic material available…
Trial/Appellate chamber rotation at ICTY
Another serious deficiency in the way the Hague Tribunal works. One of the more questionable features of ICTY judicial practice is that there is no wall of separation between the Trial and Appellate chambers. That means that judges are simply rotated between the two chambers. The same individual may be a trial judge in one…
Srebrenica, just the facts
In 2017 we published a short essay, “Srebrenica, just the facts.” A review of its contents discloses that as an overview of Srebrenica it is just as pertinent and reliable today as it was when it originally was put out. In the essay, all the major issues involving Srebrenica are discussed and our position is,…
Unwrapping the riddle of Srebrenica
Churchill’s famous dictum about the Soviet Union, that it was “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma,” is arguably just as applicable to Srebrenica July 11 this year was the twenty-fifth anniversary of that landmark event of the Yugoslav wars which the late Prof. Edward Hermann, speaking somewhat less poetically than Churchill, had…