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CARLA DEPARTS. FINALLY
William Montgomery
6 January 2008
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
has a solid list of accomplishments. There are many genuine war criminals who are either
serving well-deserved sentences or awaiting trial. The massive amount of documentation
made available in the indictments, judgments and trials themselves have helped to create
an invaluable base of information of the terrible events of those years. Some of the
evidence which has surfaced, such as the videotape of Milosevic; greeting members of the
Red Berets for their clandestine services in Bosnia and Croatia, for example, is
priceless. At the same time, the ICTY has fallen short... |
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THE CAPITULATION OF THE HAGUE
TRIBUNAL
Marko Attila Hoare, June 2005
06/27/2005
The recent announcement, that the International Criminal Tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia will not be issuing any more indictments against war-crimes
suspects, is a disgrace. As a Research Officer, I worked at the Tribunal in 2001 on the
case against Slobodan Milosevic. I believed in what the Tribunal was trying to accomplish,
and continue to do so. Yet this announcement amounts to the Tribunal's capitulation: with
the sole exception of Milosevic himself, the men most responsible for the bloodshed in the
former Yugoslavia have escaped justice. For this there is no justification, either in... |
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL'S CONCERNS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE
"COMPLETION STRATEGY" OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER
YUGOSLAVIA
06/27/2005 , HCHRS
Amnesty International believes that the International Criminal Tribunal
for the former
Yugoslavia has played a major role in addressing impunity for war crimes, crimes against
humanity and genocide committed during the violent break-up of Yugoslavia and, through its
judgments and decisions, has contributed significantly to the development of
international, humanitarian and criminal law. Under the terms of the "completion
strategy", laid down in UN Security Council Resolutions 1503 and 1534, the Tribunal
has completed all investigations and indictments for war... |
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