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PONTE'S DEAL
Geoffrey Nice
Twilight of Impunity: The War Crimes Trial of Slobodan Milosevic by
Judith Armatta Duke, 545 pp, L26.99, August 2010, ISBN 978 0 8223 4746 0
Slobodan Milosevic died in March 2006, a few months before his trial
before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague
would have ended. The trial, at which I led the prosecuting team, had already lasted just
over four years. Although there could be no verdict, the trial left an immense, and at
present largely inaccessible, archive of evidence: audio and video recordings of every
witness complete with transcripts, together with a mass of contemporary documents, videos
and other exhibits. For lawyers, the trial left behind new jurisprudence, together with
procedural innovations that are already in use in trials still going on at the ICTY and
other international criminal courts. Only a... MS Word (23kb) >>> |
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CONFERENCE "LEGACY OF THE SLOBODAN
MILOSEVIC TRIAL"
Belgrade, March 31, 2007
04/12/2007 , HCHRS
The Helsinki Committee focused the first out of six sessions dealing
with key issues of the recent past - planned under the project realized with the
assistance of the Fund for an Open Society - on the most important process conducted
before the International Criminal Tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia: the trial of Slobodan
Milosevic. By opting to open the series with "the Milosevic case" the Committee
had in mind that regardless of the fact that sentence in the first instance was not passed
the trial's legal and political implications were much too important to be sidelined from
public discourse - and not only because of various interpretations of the wars in
ex-Yugoslav territory and war crimes, including the crime of genocide, but also for the
sake of restoration of confidence in the... More >>> |
