Hague trial

The result was Resolution , passed unanimously on May 25, , which established the tribunal. The conviction of former Bosnian Serb commander Radislav Krstic cemented the tragic events in and around Srebrenica in July as genocide. The brutality and audacity of the roundup and execution of more than 8, Bosnian Muslim boys and men by Bosnian Serb forces under the command of Ratko Mladic and Krstic had shocked the world.

Years later, the ICTY would hint at the significance of the decades-long international commitment to justice: "As their bodies fell into mass graves, the machinery of denial of those crimes was set in motion.

Krstic was convicted in of genocide for his role as commander of the Republika Srpska army's Drina Corps, a historic and rare international application of justice under the so-called Genocide Convention of A career Yugoslav military officer who lost a leg from a land mine after joining Bosnian Serb forces in , he was ultimately sentenced to 35 years in prison. The ICTY convicted three junior members of a Serb military unit in February of rape, torture, enslavement, and outrages upon personal dignity against women in what is now Republika Srpska, a predominantly Serb region of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Dragoljub Kunarac, Radomir Kovac, and Zoran Vukovic were sentenced to prison terms of between 12 and 28 years for participation in a Serb campaign "to cleanse the Foca area of Muslims; to that end the campaign was successful. Even the town's name was cleansed.

Their cases marked The Hague tribunal's first convictions for rape and for enslavement as crimes against humanity, and the first such verdict in an international European court. The court reasoned that rape had been "used by members of the Bosnian Serb armed forces as an instrument of terror.

The ICTY regards its role in prosecuting sexual violence in the former Yugoslavia as helping "pave the way for the more robust adjudication of such crimes worldwide. Indictments against former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski and a former senior police officer are issued in March , marking the last prosecutions begun under the year-old tribunal. Boskovski was stripped of parliamentary immunity but later acquitted by the ICTY of all charges, which stemmed from a conflict in between Macedonian security forces and Albanian guerrillas seeking independence from Skopje.

The ICTY said at the time that its goal was to conclude all trials by and to cease functioning by How could all these people be replaced with actors in masks, doubles, CGI and dare I say clones? After they replaced Paul McCartney, anyone can be replaced but the scale of this has us soul searching.

Check out the reports from DC that nothing is happening at the white house while Biden is supposedly making a CNN live appearance. I think there is something to this story of Biden the pretend President. I also believe we have no seen the last of Trump. God knows, I was disappointed to hear him say that with Maria yesterday. Not what I was hoping for. Profoundly troubling.

Am I to believe Trump is actually part of this genocide? THAT is more than hard to swallow…even more than his comradery with Israel…. I know the explanations and I hope they are well-founded. Can he be that naive or can he be that good a deceiver?

He believes doctors are gods. Look at the way he acted around criminal Dr. He worshipped the fraud until he got bored with him. The US presidential comes down to a choice between just two people. Unfortunately 3rd parties have no traction with the brain washed masses.

Trump is the elected President. Biden is a fraudulently installed puppet dictator. The number of deaths and adverse side effects are extremely alarming. Are they keeping us unwashed in the dark before the final blow? There seems to be a hidden agenda that might be nation shaking. The peasants will be the last to know their country no longer exists as we have known it. I would almost bet the farm the Rothschilds and their minions are behind it all…..

I have an aunt who it made really sick. I know others who got the vaccine and it did nothing. I and they also know nobody who has died of covid. You must be logged in to post a comment. It's FREE! Simply enter your best email below and you will get notified as soon as they are published. Also read: An Indian Kristallnacht in the Making. The opening and closing remarks of the prosecution in both cases themselves, therefore, serve as manifestos. They teach us what to watch for in political leaders and parties, to be vigilant.

Their respective nations, Germany and Serbia, were not on trial. The idea that a state, any more than a corporation, commits crimes, is a fiction.

Crimes always are committed only by persons. While it is quite proper to employ the fiction of responsibility of a state or corporation for the purpose of imposing a collective liability, it is quite intolerable to let such a legalism become the basis of personal immunity.

The indictments do not accuse an entire people of being collectively guilty of the crimes… It may be tempting to generalise when dealing with the conduct of leaders at the highest level. But that is an error that must be avoided… Collective guilt forms no part of the prosecution case.

The trials repeatedly teach us this: in totalitarian states, or those morphing into one, the leader reconstructs the party in a way that is iconophilic towards him or her. Photo: Wikipedia Commons. It was an instrument of conspiracy and of coercion. Everything … everything, was an instrument in the service of his quest for power. They were not his personal convictions, even less patriotism or honour, or even racism or xenophobia, which inspired the accused, but the quest for power, and personal power at that.

It also made a strong appeal to that sort of nationalism which in ourselves we call patriotism and in our rivals chauvinism. The Kizevak mass grave was the fifth such site to be discovered in Serbia since the end of the Kosovo war. To gauge the damage.

To repair. The move came two months after the Kosovo Government initiated the establishment of a new, government-backed Institute for Crimes Committed During the War , which is intended to properly document all the crimes committed during the conflict. But it was left in limbo after Thaci was sent to the Specialist Chambers in The Hague to face charges.

In an attempt to boost prosecutions of war crimes in Kosovo itself, MPs in the Kosovo Assembly voted in May to allow trials in absentia in cases involving offences against international humanitarian law and international criminal law that were committed between January and June Prosecuting suspects has been problematic because of a lack of judicial and policing cooperation between Kosovo and Serbia, which does not recognise its former province as independent.