Referring to the Yugoslavia and Rwanda tribunals, Prof. Dickson argues in this scholarly article that “despite the innumerable practical, legal, financial and political challenges these institutions faced, they chose to take on an additional and unnecessary responsibility for which they were woefully ill-equipped: writing history.” Elsewhere she observes: “Lawyers can become very frustrated in trials…
Dr. Oliver Stojkovic’s forensic evidence, 27 and 30 June, 2008
Dr. Oliver Stojkovic’s expert evidence in the Popovic et. al. trial on the reliability of prosecution Srebrenica forensic data is significant even though the Chamber chose to ignore it. Significant segments of Stojkovic’s testimony reproduced below are shaded yellow, with side comments. The main issues will easily be sorted out by intelligent readers. One 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: The politics of genocide
On July 11th the ICTY Appeals Chamber reversed Radovan Karadzic’s acquittal on genocide charges related to seven municipalities in Bosnia where the original Trial Chamber had ruled that there was no evidence of genocidal intent. The Appeals Chamber acknowledged that “that Article 4(2) of the Statute defines genocide to encompass any of certain acts ‘committed with…
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…
Dr. Ljubiša Simić: An analysis of Srebrenica forensic reports prepared by ICTY Prosecution experts
A thorough analysis of forensic evidence used in Srebrenica-related trials at ICTY in the Hague is an important tool not only for sorting out what actually happened in Srebrenica in July of 1995, but also for understanding the procedures followed by that Tribunal. These insights are all the more significant since over the last decade…
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…
Edward Herman: The Hague Tribunal — The Political Economy of Sham Justice. Carla Del Ponte Addresses Goldman Sachs on Justice and Profits
The late Prof. Edward Herman highlights a largely unnoticed speech by ICTY’s ex-chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte in 2005 where, in barely restrained language, she recommended her judicial institution to Goldman Sachs executives assembled in London as a potential tool for creating a climate conducive to business and profit-making. But if reconciliation and stability had…
Interview with General Ratko Mladić, August 1995.
This is a neglected and largely unknown CNN interview with General Ratko Mladić, filmed in August 1995. The general was so articulate that subsequently the interview was swept under the rug and was never broadcast. In his responses to the journalist’s questions, the general touches upon the then recent events in Srebrenica.
Srebrenica war crimes suspect list, July 1995
It is often overlooked that the Army of the Republic of Srpska, specifically its Bratunac brigade in whose zone of responsibility the Srebrenica enclave was located, had prepared a list of war crimes suspects with which it entered Srebrenica on July 11, 1995. Why is that fact significant? Because it is incompatible with the theory…