Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: In 2012, Charles Taylor was charged with 11 specific war crimes and crimes against humanity, committed from 1996 to 2002 during Sierra Leone's civil war. Including the attacks on Kono and Makeni (well-known diamond regions) and Freetown in late 1998 and early 1999, Taylor was found guilty of the following crimes: five counts of war crimes (terrorizing civilians, murder, outrages on personal dignity, cruel treatment, and looting); five counts of crimes against humanity (murder, rape, sexual slavery, mutilating/beating, and enslavement); and one count of other serious violations of international humanitarian law (recruiting and using child soldiers)...read more

Product Description: This series by the International Courts Association presents landmark cases in international criminal law. Each volume contains the legal materials related to the presented case, as well as background information on the Tribunal/Court itself...read more

Product Description: This series by the International Courts Association presents landmark cases in international criminal law. Each volume contains the legal materials related to the presented case, as well as background information on the Tribunal/Court itself...read more

Named 2006 Book of the Year in Human Rights by the American Political Science AssociationIn recent years, the world community has demonstrated a renewed commitment to the pursuit of international criminal justice. In 1993, the United Nations established two ad hoc international tribunals to try those responsible for genocide and crimes against humanity in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Ten years later, the International Criminal Court began its operations and is developing prosecutions in its first two cases (Congo and Uganda). Meanwhile, national and hybrid war crimes tribunals have been established in Sierra Leone, Kosovo, Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, East Timor, Indonesia, Iraq, and Cambodia.Thousands of people have given testimony before these courts. Most have witnessed war crimes, including mass killings, torture, rápe, inhumane imprisonment, forced expulsion, and the destruction of homes and villages. For many, testifying in a war crimes trial requires great courage, especially as they are well aware that war criminals still walk the streets of their villages and towns. Yet despite these risks, little attention has been paid to the fate of witnesses of mass atrocity. Nor do we know much about their experiences testifying before an international tribunal or the effect of such testimony on their return to their postwar communities. The first study of victims and witnesses who have testified before an international war crimes tribunal, The Witnesses examines the opinions and attitudes of eighty-seven individuals—Bosnians, Muslims, Serbs, and Croats—who have appeared before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

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