Beyond Justice: How the Yugoslav Tribunal Made History

(Credit: Nduraku via Wikimedia Commons) Bullet holes, bloodstains and brain matter marked the walls of an empty barn, a crime scene processed to document the worst crime in Europe since the Second World War: the deliberate killings of more than 7,000 men and boys from the Bosnian town of Srebrenica....

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Published inForensic Magazine
Main Author Daly, Emma
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Rockaway Advantage Business Media 20.12.2017
Subjects
Atrocities
Convictions
Crimes against humanity
Criminal investigations
Criminal law
Displaced persons
Genocide
Human rights
International law
Massacres
Milosevic, Slobodan
Muslims
Political activism
Sieges
War crimes
Witnesses
Yugoslavia
Kosovo
Bosnia-Hercegovina
Europe
Serbia
Croatia
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Summary:(Credit: Nduraku via Wikimedia Commons) Bullet holes, bloodstains and brain matter marked the walls of an empty barn, a crime scene processed to document the worst crime in Europe since the Second World War: the deliberate killings of more than 7,000 men and boys from the Bosnian town of Srebrenica. Journalists and human rights researchers had pieced together the horrifying story based on eyewitness accounts from the few who survived; and then investigators from the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal built a genocide case by collecting evidence from killing sites and exhuming mass graves. Under orders from Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, a career communist turned nationalist demagogue, Yugoslav Army and Bosnian Serb forces besieged and systematically bombarded civilians, razed Muslim areas, expelled entire communities, burned down or blew up houses and mosques, and raped women and girls as a tactic of war. In a moment of high courtroom drama that year, Human Rights Watch’s Fred Abrahams recounted our sharing our findings with Milosevic’s office in Belgrade while Milosevic cross-examined him.: “Yes, Mr Milosevic, we mailed our reports to you so that you would know exactly what was happening at the hands of Serbian forces.”
ISSN:1553-6262