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DEL 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
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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 >>> |
