Cristopher Black is a distinguished Canadian criminal attorney with trial experience before the Rwanda Tribunal and ICTY. His analysis of the ICTY “trial judgment” in the Mladić case leaves few major stones unturned. “All that is a lie. This is a NATO-style trial.” The defiant words of General Mladic to the judges of the NATO…
Srebrenica — the truth behind the headlines
This remarkable visual summary of what Srebrenica is all about is a production Balkan Conflicts Research Team, a group of British citizens with a keen interest in Balkan issues who work closely with Srebrenica Historical Project. In this film four major aspects of the intertwined Srebrenica/ICTY narrative are singled out and scrutinized: how the myth…
Prof. Michael Mandel: The ICTY Calls It ‘Genocide’
Late Prof. Michael Mandel’s classical deconstruction of ICTY’s genocide argument as articulated in the Krstić judgement. The analysis is applicable to subsequent ICTY Srebrenica “genocide” judgements as well. On August 2, 2001, Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ruled that the events at Srebrenica in July 1995 constituted…
Edward S. Herman: The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre (2005)
“Srebrenica” has become the symbol of evil, and specifically Serb evil. It is commonly described as “a horror without parallel in the history of Europe since the Second World War” in which there was a cold-blooded execution “of at least 8,000 Muslim men and boys.” [1] The events in question took place in or near…
Edward S. Herman: Stacy Sullivan on Milosevic and Genocide (2004)
There is, of course, a cabaret actress Stacy Sullivan, but the subject of Prof. Herman’s article is a political activist-cum-journalist who was also prominent under that name in the 1990’s and early 2000’s when she was reporting and commenting on the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo. Her 27 February 2004 article, Milosevic and genocide: Has…
ICTY “hanging judge” Schomburg as an advocate of fair trial standards
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…
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…
The Sham of The Hague Tribunal: The plight of defendants
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 The plight of defendants is their latest production. What was unusual about the way the ICTY…
The Sham of The Hague Tribunal: False Assumptions
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 False Assumptions is their latest production. What are the false assumptions held about the ICTY?…
The Sham of The Hague Tribunal: ICTY misrepresentation
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 ICTY misrepresentation is their latest production. How does the ICTY misrepresent the Balkan conflicts? Whenever it is…