The Trial Of Slobodan Milosevic

Author : Judith Armatta
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780822391791

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Twilight of Impunity by Judith Armatta Pdf

An eyewitness account of the first major international war-crimes tribunal since the Nuremberg trials, Twilight of Impunity is a gripping guide to the prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. The historic trial of the “Butcher of the Balkans” began in 2002 and ended abruptly with Milosevic’s death in 2006. Judith Armatta, a lawyer who spent three years in the former Yugoslavia during Milosevic’s reign, had a front-row seat at the trial. In Twilight of Impunity she brings the dramatic proceedings to life, explains complex legal issues, and assesses the trial’s implications for victims of the conflicts in the Balkans during the 1990s and international justice more broadly. Armatta acknowledges the trial’s flaws, particularly Milosevic’s grandstanding and attacks on the institutional legitimacy of the International Criminal Tribunal. Yet she argues that the trial provided an indispensable legal and historical narrative of events in the former Yugoslavia and a valuable forum where victims could tell their stories and seek justice. It addressed crucial legal issues, such as the responsibility of commanders for crimes committed by subordinates, and helped to create a framework for conceptualizing and organizing other large-scale international criminal tribunals. The prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague was an important step toward ending impunity for leaders who perpetrate egregious crimes against humanity.

Author : Nevenka Tromp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317335269

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Prosecuting Slobodan Milošević by Nevenka Tromp Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the trial of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). With the premature death of Milošević in March 2006 his trial was left unfinished. Although the traditional objectives of criminal law, such as retribution, justice for victims, and deterrence, were not achieved, the Milošević trial archive is a significant historical resource for researchers from various fields. This book extracts details from the collection of documentary and transcript evidence that makes up the trial record – sources which would be almost impossible to extricate without an insider’s guiding hand – to allow readers to trace the threads of several historical narratives. The value of this methodology is particularly evident in the Milošević case as, acting as his own defence counsel, he responded to, and interacted with, almost all witnesses and evidence presented against him. By providing snapshots of the behaviour displayed by Milošević in court while conducting his defence, in combination with passages of carefully selected evidence from an immense archive familiar to few scholars, this volume reveals how these trial records, and trail records in general, are a truly invaluable historical source. The book underlines the premise that any record of a mass atrocities trial, whether finished or unfinished, establishes a record of past events, contributes to interpretations of a historical period and influences the shaping of collective memory. This book will be of much interest to students of the Former Yugoslavia, war crimes, international law, human rights, international relations and European politics.

Author : John Laughland
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015067697774

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Travesty by John Laughland Pdf

In 2006, Slobodan Milosevic died in prison in the Hague during a four-year marathon trial for war crimes. John Laughland was one of the last Western journalists to meet with him. Laughland had followed the trial from its beginning and wrote extensively on it in the Guardian and the Spectator, challenging the legitimacy of the Yugoslav Tribunal and the hypocrisy of "international justice." In this short book, Laughland gives a full account of the trial---the longest trial in history---from the moment the indictment was issued at the height of NATO's attack on Yugoslavia to the day of Milosevic's mysterious death in custody. "International justice" is supposed to hold war criminals to account, but---as the trials of both Milosevic and Saddam Hussein show---the indictments are politically motivated and the judicial procedures are irredeemably corrupt. Laughland argues that international justice is an impossible dream and that such show trials are little more than propaganda exercises designed to distract attention from the war crimes committed by Western states.

Author : Chris Stephen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015060670703

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Judgement Day by Chris Stephen Pdf

For the first time in recorded history, a world leader has been brought before a court that has a valid claim to represent all the other nations of the world. Judgement Day tells the remarkable story of the International Criminal Court, the world's first truly global war-crimes court, how it came into being, and the lengths to which its prosecutors went to in order to indict its most notorious defendant, Slobodan Milosevic. Author Chris Stephen, the Hague Tribunal project director, has unprecedented access to the prosecution and defense lawyers, politicians, and court officials charged with trying the former Yugoslav president, who stands accused of the most heinous crimes committed in Europe since World War II. At the heart of the story is the brooding, brutal, swaggering figure of Slobodan Milosevic himself, who with the help of a team of legal experts conducted his own defense with a wealth of information provided to him by the Serbian secret police via telephone links to Belgrade. Judgement Day is a riveting and authoritative account of the most important international trial since Nuremberg.

Author : Takis Nitis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : International criminal courts
ISBN : 9609607055

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The "trial" of Slobodan Milosevic by Takis Nitis Pdf

Author : Sara Darehshori
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE BALKANS Weighing the Evidence Lessons for the Slobodan Milosevic Trial by Sara Darehshori Pdf

Author : Timothy William Waters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190270780

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The Milošević Trial by Timothy William Waters Pdf

The Milo%sevi? Trial - An Autopsy provides a cross-disciplinary examination of one of the most controversial war crimes trials of the modern era and its contested legacy for the growing fields of international criminal law and post-conflict justice. The international trial of Slobodan Milo%sevi?, who presided over the violent collapse of Yugoslavia - was already among the longest war crimes trials when Milo%sevi? died in 2006. Yet precisely because it ended without judgment, its significance and legacy are specially contested. The contributors to this volume, including trial participants, area specialists, and international law scholars bring a variety of perspectives as they examine the meaning of the trial's termination and its implications for post-conflict justice. The book's approach is intensively cross-disciplinary, weighing the implications for law, politics, and society that modern war crimes trials create. The time for such an examination is fitting, with the imminent closing of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal and rising debates over its legacy, as well as the 20th anniversary of the outbreak of the Yugoslav conflict. The Milo%sevi? Trial - An Autopsy brings thought-provoking insights into the impact of war crimes trials on post-conflict justice.

Author : Louis Sell
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 082233223X

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Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia by Louis Sell Pdf

Focusing on the life and career of Slobodan Milosevic from the perspective of both a diplomatic insider and a scholar, this text provides first-hand observations of Milosevic during his rise to power and, later, in the endgame of the Bosnian war.

Author : Kimberly L. Sullivan
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822590989

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Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia by Kimberly L. Sullivan Pdf

Discusses the rise and fall of the Serbian president Slobodan Miloéseviâc.

Author : Michael Barratt Brown,Edward S. Herman,David Peterson
Publisher : Spokesman Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Trials (Crimes against humanity)
ISBN : 0851246931

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The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic by Michael Barratt Brown,Edward S. Herman,David Peterson Pdf

Author : Michael P. Scharf,Slobodan Milošević,William Schabas
Publisher : Continuum
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015055576196

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Slobodan Milosevic on Trial by Michael P. Scharf,Slobodan Milošević,William Schabas Pdf

From 1991 to 1999, Slobodan Milosevic launched and ultimately lost four Balkan wars, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands and the displacement of millions. He saw himself as a modern day Abe Lincoln, employing force in a valiant effort to hold his crumbling Yugoslavia together. But the ruthless Serb leader's tactics included systematic war crimes and ethnic cleansing, ultimately prompting the U. S. and its NATO allies to launch a controversial military intervention in the spring of 1999 to halt the bloodshed.Now Milosevic is on trial in The Hague before the United Nations-created International War Crimes Tribunal. He is the first former head of state ever to face international justice. The televised trial of Slobodan Milosevic is expected to last for two years and could well prove to be the most watched criminal proceedings since the trial of O. J. Simpson.There is much the public will want to know about this historic and complex trial. Written in a lively, journalistic style by two of the leading experts on the International War Crimes Tribunal, Slobodan Milosevic on Trial: A Companion is designed to inform the reader about what to watch for, who the players are, what the rules are, who has won in the past, and who is likely to win this time. Complete with maps, photos, and a glossary of legal terms, this comprehensive guide to the Milosevic trial will help the public understand the important and complex proceedings taking place in The Hague.

Author : John Laughland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : International criminal courts
ISBN : 1783715774

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Travesty by John Laughland Pdf

-- A passionate critique of Milosevic's trial and the PR machine at the heart of international justice -- 'Study this story. ... The truth is hard to find, but in John Laughland we are fortunate to have a man blessed with the freedom to seek all facts, an.

Author : Adam LeBor
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300103175

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Milosevic by Adam LeBor Pdf

Offers an account of a man who started wars, whose rhetoric whipped up Serb nationalism to a frenzy of "ethnic cleansing" and yet who retained for a decade the ability to wrap the "international community" round his little finger.

Author : Angela J. Edman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : International criminal courts
ISBN : OCLC:1430595792

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The trial of Slobodan Milosevic by Angela J. Edman Pdf

Author : Norman L. Cigar,Paul Williams
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814716267

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Indictment at the Hague by Norman L. Cigar,Paul Williams Pdf

The trial of Slobodan Milosevic represents a singular moment in modern history. For the first time a former head of state must answer charges before an International Tribunal for the commission of war crimes. Taking as its starting point the existing canon of international law and conventions governing actions during war, Indictment at the Hague, represents the most detailed examination of the conduct of the Serbian authorities and the individual responsibility of senior members of its leadership for war crimes. Citing the precedent of the Nuremberg trials, Cigar and Williams carefully link conscious decisions and specific deeds undertaken by the Milosevic regime that violated the protections guaranteed to civilian populations in war. The volume reproduces a collection of key documents from the Hague Tribunal, U.N. Commissions, and Human Rights Organizations which appear in print together for the first time. Indictment at the Hague is essential for all those concerned with the difficult task of sustaining the Geneva and Hague Conventions, and those who wish to understand how in the era of "never again" the crimes of war continue to challenge the instruments of international law.