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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…
Tiphaine Dickson: Historiography of War Crimes Prosecutions
Dr. Tiphaine Dickson, is Instructor at Portland State University, Mark. O. Hatfield School of Government, U.S.A, lead defense counsel representing Georges Rutaganda at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, legal Spokeswoman for the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic, advisor to President Milosevic on matters of law, including self-representation, Joint Criminal Enterprise, and joinder. The…
Aleksandar Jokic*: Conventional wisdom about Yugoslavia and Rwanda — Methodological perils and moral implications
While ostensibly a response to a critique, the main goal of this Article is to demonstrate how easily conventional wisdom, usually shaped by the media and politics, can corrupt scholarship when it is simply presupposed by those engaged in what should be an academic polemic, yet often also includes ‘activism in scholarship’. The examples of…
Judge Kristoff Flugge’s delicate conscience and ICTY’s incestuous inception
It was reported in late January 2019 that “a senior judge at one of the UN courts in The Hague is reportedly resigning over ‘shocking’ political interference from the White House and Turkey”. The hero of this morality play is German judge Kristoff Flugge. The stage of his edifying performance is the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former…
Andy Wilcoxson: Leaked State Dept. Cables Expose the ICTY’s Hypocrisy
“There is a general sense among prosecutors that the Appeals Chamber first decided that Krstic did not merit conviction as a principal perpetrator of genocide but that, for ‘political’ reasons, it did not want to set aside the finding that the massacres around Srebrenica constituted genocide. The result, one prosecutor said, made it seem as if ‘an eighteen-year-old…
Srdja Trifkovic: The Hague Tribunal — Bad justice, worse politics (1996)
Not many eyebrows will be raised at the revelation that there is a prison, in a small foreign country, where you can be indefinitely incarcerated without trial, or where you can be delivered on the orders of an ad hoc “court” which sets its own rules as it goes along, and sometimes issues warrants only…
Miša Djurković: La dimensión política en el trabajo del tribunal internacional para la antigua Yugoslavia: TPIY como una forma de justicia política
por Miša Djurković1 “La OTAN es amiga del Tribunal… Los países de la OTAN son los que han financiado la creación del Tribunal, estamos entre los financiadores mayoritarios” Jamie Shea, vocero de la OTAN, explicando por qué no espera acusaciones del TPIY contra funcionarios de la OTAN, mayo 16, 1999. Introducción La idea de la…
Andy Wilcoxson: Corrupt “Justice” at the ICTY
At a ceremony marking the 20th Anniversary of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia’s (ICTY) establishment, Tribunal President Theodor Meron gave a speech about the Tribunal’s “profound contributions to global efforts to battle impunity” and the international community’s “resolve that there be no impunity for any individual, even the most senior political or military…
How the Hague Tribunal fabricates its evidence
There are at least three important reasons why Srebrenica must be made the subject of relentless critical deconstruction until we are fully satisfied that we have arrived at the truth. 1. Legal. The integrity of the international legal system will be seriously compromised if the results reached by political instruments such as ICTY are allowed…