Armatta Judith Armatta

Twilight of Impunity (eBook, PDF)

The War Crimes Trial of Slobodan Milosevic

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Produktbeschreibung

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 "e;Butcher of the Balkans"e; 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822391791
• Artikelnr.: 54815531

Autorenporträt

Judith Armatta is a lawyer, journalist, and human-rights advocate who monitored the trial of Slobodan Milosevic on behalf of the Coalition for International Justice. Her dispatches from The Hague appeared in Tribunal Update, published by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting; Monitor, a magazine of political commentary published in Montenegro; the International Herald Tribune; and the Chicago Tribune. Prior to her work in The Hague, Armatta worked for the American Bar Association’s Central and East European Law Initiative, opening offices in Belgrade, Serbia (in 1997) and Montenegro (in 1999). During the Kosova War, she headed a War Crimes Documentation Project among Kosovar Albanian refugees in Macedonia. Armatta currently consults on international humanitarian, human rights, and other rule-of-law issues, most recently in the Middle East. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: A Personal Note ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Note on Usage and Conventions xvii
Abbreviations xxi
Cast of Characters xxv
Introduction 1
1. Opening Statements 10
2. Milosevic Was Warned 25
3. The Lead-up to War 46
4. War in Kosova 75
5. Massacre and Cover-up 95
6. Milosevic's Rise to Power 117
7. The Exercise of (De Facto) Power 148
8. War and Attempts at Peace 182
9. War Comes to Bosnia 212
10. Concentration Camps and Safe Areas 240
11. Genocide 284
12. Immigration 322
13. The World According to Milosevic 345
14. Constructing Reality: Milosevic's Loyal Officers 370
15. Croatia and Bosnia: A Case of Self-Defense? 393
16. Conclusions and Recommendations 430
Afterword 449
Appendix I. Law of the Tribunal 451
Appendix II. List of Defense Witnesses 457
Appendix III. Chronology 459
Notes 471
Bibliography 517
Index 523