Credit for inspiring this volume belongs primarily to the Bologna-based Giuseppe Torre Foundation. Two essays in this book, “ICTY and Srebrenica” and “When justice fails: Re-raising the question of ethnic bias at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)” shared first prize in the Foundation’s 2018 competition. In “When justice fails” the young…
New book on ICTY and conflict in the former Yugoslavia: “Joint Criminal Enterprise,” by Andy Wilcoxcson
A casual reader of this book would never suspect that its author is not a lawyer or historian but a person with a background in the technical sciences. With remarkable clarity and ample documentation, Andy Wilcoxson calls into question the major postulates of the “received wisdom” about conflicts in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and compellingly…
The Rogue Tribunal: New documentary about the Hague Tribunal
“The Rogue Tribunal – how the ICTY fooled the world” is a passionate and powerful expose. It reveals how the fair and impartial administration of justice -civilisation’s best guarantee of survival- was abandoned and betrayed by the International Criminal Court for the Former Yugoslavia. Meticulously researched by more than thirty academics, historians, journalists and broadcasters…
Ann Garrison: “Denying” the Srebrenica Genocide Because It’s Not True – an Interview with Diana Johnstone (2015)
Saturday, July 11th, was the official 20th anniversary of what is called the “Srebrenica Massacre” and “the Srebrenica Genocide,” when Muslim men were killed by Serbian forces in the Bosnian civil war of 1992 to 1995. The Western consensus about what happened at Srebrenica is, like the official history of the Rwandan massacres, disputed by academics, journalists…
Popović judgment analysis: Does DNA help the faltering Srebrenica lobby? (2010)
Although originally published in 2010, this analysis of ICTY’s trial judgment in the Popović case is as pertinent today as when it was written. In particular because of legislation to ban “Srebrenica genocide denial” that is pending before the Canadian parliament. Interestingly, the same Srebrenica lobby outfit that unsuccessfully attempted to ban criticism of “Srebrenica…
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…
Critique of the Hague Tribunal’s Popovic Judgment (2010)
The judgment delivered by the ICTY Trial Chamber in Popović et al. on June 10, 1995, is of some interest in the ongoing Srebrenica controversy. While it affirms all the principal positions of ICTY jurisprudence in this important area of the Tribunal’s judicial practice, it does so in some ways that do not follow mechanically…
George Pumphrey: Thoughts on ICTY and its pretensions
There is a big difference between “being proven guilty of a crime” and “being convicted of a crime.” The former is the result of the presentation of evidence in a fair trial, while the latter is the administrative decision reached by the court – regardless of evidence or fairness. However, the population has been induced…
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…
Andy Wilcoxson: Radovan Karadzic, a Serbian Hero
Despite a politically motivated war crimes conviction and a sentence of life imprisonment by the ICTY Appeals Chamber, former Bosnian-Serb president Radovan Karadzic is widely seen as a hero by Serbs. who scoff at the Tribunal and its proceedings. Our associate Andy Wilcoxon explains why. Former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic’s sentence for war crimes committed…