(srpskohrvatski / english / italiano) Analisi e ricerche sul "tribunale ad hoc" dell'Aia
1) NEW... .....VIDEO: The Rogue Tribunal / Bezakoni Sud (Balkan Conflicts Research Team) .....LIBRO/BOOK: The Hague Tribunal, Srebrenica, and the Miscarriage of Justice (S. Karganovic et al.) .....BOOK: Furies: Essays On the Poverty, Rise, and Demise of International Criminal Law (Tiphaine Dickson) .....BOOK: Targets of international justice: Yugoslavia and Rwanda (T. Dickson and A. Jokic) 2) The role of "confessions" at the Hague Tribunal (S. Karganovic) 3) PROMEMORIA: Premi “Giuseppe Torre” per elaborati critici sul Tribunale per la ex Jugoslavia – SECONDA EDIZIONE by Tiphaine Dickson see also: HISTORIOGRAPHY OF WAR CRIMES PROSECUTIONS Lecture held at the Belgrade University Faculty of Law, March 26, 2019 http://milosevic.co/929/tiphaine-dickson-historiography-of-war-crimes-prosecutions/ <http://milosevic.co/929/tiphaine-dickson-historiography-of-war-crimes-prosecutions/> or http://www.beoforum.rs/en/comments-belgrade-forum-for-the-world-of-equals/636-tiphaine-dickson-historiography-of-war-crimes-prosecutions.html <http://www.beoforum.rs/en/comments-belgrade-forum-for-the-world-of-equals/636-tiphaine-dickson-historiography-of-war-crimes-prosecutions.html> === 1 === THE ROGUE TRIBUNAL - HOW THE ICTY FOOLED THE WORLD (Balkan Conflicts Research Team, 27 ago 2019) ‘The Rogue Tribunal - how the ICTY fooled the world’ is a passionate and powerful expose. It reveals how the fair and impartial administration of justice - civilisation’s best guarantee of survival - was abandoned and betrayed by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Meticulously researched by more than thirty academics, historians, journalists and broadcasters around the world, the film demonstrates in shocking and compelling detail the corruption of international law and its manipulation for purely political ends under the guise of humanitarianism. The ICTY was a tribunal largely funded and staffed by the United States which put the interests of American geopolitics before justice and deliberately set out to create and perpetuate a false version of history that demonised an entire nation as genocidal killers. The Tribunal also betrayed international trust in the United Nations, effectively condemning tens of thousands to death by intensifying and prolonging war in the Balkans. It has left a poisonous legacy, spawning a growing number of international tribunals which threaten the previously inviolable sovereignty of nations with the overwhelming force of internationalism. Such injustice only fuels future anger, resentment, violence and bloodshed. When faith in international justice fails then trust between nations breaks down and the force of argument is overturned by the argument of force. In a world sleep walking along this dangerous path ‘The Rogue Tribunal’ is a powerful wake-up call. VIDEO IN ENGLISH: https://youtu.be/BmXiX3RAdI4 <https://youtu.be/BmXiX3RAdI4> NA SRPSKOHRVATSKOM: BEZAKONI SUD – KAKO JE HAŠKI TRIBUNAL OBMANUO SVET (Balkan Conflicts Research Team, 28 ago 2019) Film „Bezakoni sud – kako je Haški tribunal obmanuo svet“ ubedljivo raskrinkava ovu ustanovu. Prikazuje kako je Međunarodni krivični sud za bivšu Jugoslaviju izigrao načelo nepristrasnog deljenja pravde, kamen temeljac naše civilizacije. Ovaj film je rezultat saradnje i savesnog istraživanja preko trideset univerzitetskih profesora, istoričara i novinara širom sveta. U njemu se na šokantan i nesporan način podrobno iznosi sunovrat međunarodnog prava i način kako se tom tekovinom manipuliše radi postizanja čisto političkih ciljeva, a sve pod humanitarnom maskom. Haški tribunal je najvećim delom bio finansiran i kadriran od strane SAD, čime su američki geopolitički interesi bili postavljeni iznad pravde. To je dovelo do stvaranja i nametanja lažne istorije u kojoj su pripadnici čitavog jednog naroda žigosani kao genocidne ubice. Stvaranjem Tribunala poverenje međunarodne javnosti u Ujedinjene nacije je srušeno, što je raspirilo i produžilo sukob na Balkanu, prouzrokovavši nepotrebni gubitak desetine hiljada ljudskih života. VIDEO NA SRPSKOHRVATSKOM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS8EWlC3zIc <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS8EWlC3zIc> The Balkan Conflicts Research Team is a group of 30 researchers committed to uncover the scandal of ICTY – see: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ResearchTeam <https://twitter.com/ResearchTeam> Website: https://yugofile.org.uk/bcrtwp/ <https://yugofile.org.uk/bcrtwp/> --- E' uscito il volume comprendente i due saggi, di Stephen Karganovic e Jovan Milojevich, vincitori del premio "Giuseppe Torre" ed...2018 ( http://www.cnj.it/home/it/diritto-internazionale/8917-i-vincitori-del-concorso-g-torre.html <http://www.cnj.it/home/it/diritto-internazionale/8917-i-vincitori-del-concorso-g-torre.html> ), più due ulteriori saggi di Christopher Black, noto avvocato internazionalista, e di Viseslav Simic, docente di Geopolitica in Messico. La Prefazione di Karganovic si apre con un ringraziamento a Jugocoord e la menzione del premio "Torre". Di seguito la scheda del libro in lingua inglese: Stephen Karganovic, Christopher Black, Viseslav Simic, Jovan Milojevich: THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL, SREBRENICA, AND THE MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE Chicago: Unwritten History Inc, 2019 Four essays that examine the legal shortcomings of The Hague Tribunal. The ICTY and Srebrenica; by S. Karganovic is a case study that examines the Branjevo/Pilica Execution Site; The ICTY's Open Contempt for Justice by C. Black examines The Hague Tribunal's willful misrepresentation of evidence in the Mladic Trial; Perceptions of Injustice by Viseslav Simic examines the impact of The Hague Tribunal's decisions on local co-existence and reconciliation. When Justice Fails by Jovan Milojevich is a study based on a statistial analysis of The Hague Tribunal's convictions with respect to bias. Each study presents devastating evidence that The Hague Tribunal was a legal disfunction institution that uniformly supported U.S./EU imperialism in the Former Yugoslavia Foreword by Ambassador James Bisset Afterward by Peter Brock Post Script by Jean Toschi Morazzani Visconti Editors: Milo Yelesiyevich and Stephen Karganovic 244 pages, ISBN: 0970919875 This volume is a timely and welcome antidote to the sloppy but comfortable conventional wisdom about Srebrenica. A must read. -- Tiphaine Dickson --Personal e-mail These four powerful essays by renowned experts in international law outline in meticulous detail the extent to which the ICTY has failed in its mission of bringing closure and historical truth to the peoples of the former Yugoslavia. Instead, it has falsified history and presented to the world a mischievously misleading account of the breakup of Yugoslavia and the wars this startling event triggered. At the heart of the ICTY s historical narrative are the events that followed the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995. As the authors explain the ICTY seized on the tragedy of Srebrenica in order to construct a false narrative, one that pits monstrous Bosnian Serbs against angelic Bosnian Muslims. Through the manipulation of questionable forensic evidence and dubious eyewitness testimony in one Srebrenica case after another, the ICTY was able to manufacture a fake history that will help no one but those who are even now laying the ground for future conflicts in the lands that once comprised Yugoslavia. These essays provide a bracing rejection of the view that judicial bodies are uniquely qualified to provide authoritative history. -- George Szamuely, PhD Author of Bombs for Peace: NATO s Humanitarian War on Yugoslavia --Personal e-mail About the Author: Stephen Karganovic is President of the non-governmental organization, The Srebrenica Historical Project. He also served as a defense attorney for a number of defendants before The Hague Tribunal https://www.amazon.com/Hague-Tribunal-Srebrenica-Miscarriage-Justice/dp/0970919875 <https://www.amazon.com/Hague-Tribunal-Srebrenica-Miscarriage-Justice/dp/0970919875> --- http://milosevic.co/940/two-new-indispensable-monographs-on-the-tribunals-at-the-belgrade-book-fair/ <http://milosevic.co/940/two-new-indispensable-monographs-on-the-tribunals-at-the-belgrade-book-fair/> TWO NEW INDISPENSABLE MONOGRAPHS ON THE “TRIBUNALS” AT THE BELGRADE BOOK FAIR ICSM, 27/10/2019 Two well conceive and argued books offering a critical approach on the subject of “international justice”, one authored by Tiphaine Dickson the other coauthored by Tiphaine Dickson and Aleksandar Jokic are on display these days for viewing by the public at the Belgrade International Book Fair, both books are published in the special edition of the Serbian publishing house “Albatros plus”. We will soon provide our readers with extensive reviews of these exceptional books. So far, we quote below the announcing texts from their back covers. Thanks to the authors and the publisher, electronic versions (full text) of both books are free for download. The links are also given below. *** Furies Essays On the Poverty, Rise, and Demise of International Criminal Law By Tiphaine Dickson “In this compelling and meticulously researched book, Tiphaine Dickson, former criminal defense attorney and scholar of international criminal law, argues that international criminal tribunals cannot afford due process to defendants who appear before them. Created by powerful nations, whose citizens are not generally subject to their jurisdiction, these courts conflate providing a fair trial with making a historical record. Dickson critiques “American exceptionalism” and U.S. policy, which prioritizes civil and political rights over socio-economic rights, but does justice to neither.” Marjorie Cohn, Professor Emerita, Thomas Jefferson School of Law Link for download: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336564867 <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336564867> *** Targets of international justice: Yugoslavia and Rwanda By Tiphaine Dickson and Aleksandar Jokic This book of essays and articles spans two decades and three continents. The essays are an attempt to understand and critique the puzzling development of international criminal tribunals that emerged suddenly after the end of the Cold War, though many decades of formal and informal efforts to create an international body with jurisdiction over criminal offenses of an international nature—and notably aggression, forgotten by the new Security Council bodies—had failed. The chapters assembled in this book besides analyzing the positions, claims and what even passes for theories in various disciplines deployed within a novel post-Cold War field of “International Justice” also paints these endeavors as tools for justifying the foreign policies of the hegemonic United States and its subservient allies. Without explicitly reducing the international justice discourse, both public and academic, to outright propaganda, we deliberately present Yugoslavia and Rwanda as targets of international justice, countries that are literally no more or so dramatically transfigured that the flags from the cover of this book no longer stand for anything. No doubt many among those who had found their academic niche as contributors to some aspect of international justice discourse will find our position surprising, exaggerated, and even shocking. In the end, whatever the shock value of this book, our hope is that its readers, particularly the uninitiated, will find our arguments compelling and useful. Link for download: https://www...researchgate.net/publication/336564869 <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336564869> === 2 === http://us.srebrenica-project.org/2019/11/02/more-on-confessions-at-icty-a-different-view/ <http://us.srebrenica-project.org/2019/11/02/more-on-confessions-at-icty-a-different-view/> More on confessions at ICTY: A different view Stephen Karganovic, November 2, 2019 Much of what passes for key evidence at ICTY can be traced back to the confessions of accused persons <http://us.srebrenica-project.org/2018/03/10/confessing-at-the-hague-tribunal/>. An example is Momir Nikolic, whose “statement of facts” attached to his plea bargain with the Prosecution in 2002 finally lent an appearance of substance to the reburial narrative. The reburial story was launched originally to explain the relative paucity of human remains at execution sites and to lend credence to the claim of a massive, guilty Srebrenica cover-up in the Fall of 1995. [1] Miroslav Deronjic’s confession, also part of a plea bargain agreement, is supposed to have implicated high ranking Republika Srpska political and military figures Karadzic, Mladic, and Beara in planning and ordering the Srebrenica massacre. Dragan Obrenovic’s confession <http://us.srebrenica-project.org/2018/01/08/plea-bargaining-at-icty-injustice-done-and-seen-to-be-done-the-case-of-cooperating-witness-dragan-obrenovic-2012/>, wrung under similar circumstances, filled large holes in the Prosecution’s case at the command level of the Zvornik brigade, thye military unit in whose zone of responsibility the Srebrenica prisoner massacre for the most part occurred. One of the most famous confessions at ICTY was that of Dr. Biljana Plavsic, a member of the Republika Srpska Presidency during the war in Bosnia. Mrs. Plavsic was indicted by the Tribunal in 2000 on eight counts, including genocide, persecution, extermination, and the litany of usual charges. In 2001, she voluntarily surrendered to face trial jointly with Momcilo Krajisnik, another war-time Presidency member. In October 2002, Mrs. Plavsic entered a plea agreement accepting guilt for the single count of persecution, while the remaining counts were dismissed. This backdrop is necessary to contextualize a scholarly article, or at least a text with such pretensions published in a scholarly journal. It focuses on the plea bargain process in the Plavsic case in order to exemplify the author’s critical view of the of ICTY’s plea bargaining practices. At ICTY that necessarily includes not just acceptance of criminal responsibility in some form but also a public confession of wrongdoing. The author is Jelena Subotic, a political science professor at Georgia State University <https://shared.cas.gsu.edu/profile/jelena-subotic/>. Her text is entitled “The Cruelty of False Remorse: Biljana Plavšić at the Hague.” It was published in Southeastern Europe 36 (2012) 39–59. The text in its entirety is attached below. Mrs. Subotic’s reflections on this important topic, while interesting in many respects, exhibit an overall approach that is highly problematic. While advancing a friendly critique of some ICTY practices, she does not touch some sensitive but fundamental issues. Matter-of-factly, she assumes that the Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague is a legitimate judicial organ genuinely engaged in a quest for judicial truth. She also accepts implicitly that confessions are a reliable instrument for establishing legal facts, ignoring uncritically massive evidence that makes that assumption highly suspect. She does not even in passing refer to diverse views in scholarly literature on this subject. Based on these controversial assumptions, Mrs. Subotic proceeds to criticize ICTY for “significant inconsistencies in ICTY procedures and sentencing” and for disappointing the “expectation and hope displayed by many international justice promoters that war crimes trials may lead to truthful confessions, apologies, or acknowledgments of abuses.” As evidence, she presents her version of ICTY’s handling of the Plavsic case, “focus[ing] on individualizing accountability for mass atrocity” which — according to Mrs. Subotic — makes it “ill equipped to deal with the collectivist nature of such crimes”. These are very strong and questionable assertions, and we will briefly deal with them in turn. As a careful reading of Mrs. Subotic’s article suggests, her contention that ICTY is inconsistent in its sentencing practice, as evidenced inter alia by a mere eleven-year sentence meted out to Mrs. Plavsic, is based largely on the charges, including genocide, in the original indictment. But, of course, all but one of the counts in the original indictment were ultimately dropped once the defendant signed the plea bargain, so it would have been awkward for the Chamber to disregard that fact and base its sentencing rationale on the full complement of the original charges. Even ICTY does not do that. Also worth noting is that Mrs. Plavsic’s would-be co-defendant Momcilo Krajisnik, who remained in the dock after she dropped out of the case, originally was also charged with genocide, but the trial chamber ultimately found him innocent on that score. Since Krajisnik and Plavsic held positions of similar rank and influence, it is theoretically possible that had Plavsic gone through the trial she also might have been acquitted of genocide. It could of course be argued that the remaining charge of persecution, to which Mrs. Plavsic pled guilty, is serious enough and merited a sterner sentence. That might have been the case had there been some factual basis, beyond mere confession (see Michel Foucault’s trenchant observations on the role of confessions in medieval jurisprudence <http://us.srebrenica-project.org/2018/03/10/confessing-at-the-hague-tribunal/>) to support it. However, no such basis emerged since there was no trial and no probative evidence pointing to Mrs. Plavsic’s guilt on any of the counts was ever presented or tested in open court. Even if we were to accept that ICTY is a proper tribunal, that tribunal did not make any deliberative findings on Mrs. Plavsic’s guilt beyond taking her word for it. But even if we set aside what Foucault had to say on the subject, which is of sufficient importance, as Mrs. Plavsic made clear in her subsequent writings and statements, she “confessed” not because of unbearable pangs of conscience she was experiencing over misdeeds that were charged to her but which she obviously did not believe that she had committed, but entirely for reasons she considered to be practical. It is as simple as that, and Mrs. Subotic’s extensive quotes from Plavsic’s memoirs and prison interviews fully corroborate it. [Pages 48,49] A person is hardly to be blamed for attempting to outwit an institution she believes to be persecuting her unjustly, and for wanting to profit from an otherwise unfair situation. Mrs. Subotic somewhat angrily excoriates Plavsic for “perpetrat[ing] a cynical fraud against the international tribunal and victims of crimes she ordered, endorsed, or failed to prevent”. But, to reiterate, since there was no trial no proof was ever submitted beyond prosecutorial allegations that Plavsic “ordered, endorsed, or failed to prevent” any crimes. There is a fundamental difference between a charge, which is a simple allegation, and a proper judicial finding arrived at after submission of evidence and following due deliberation. At least formally, that is the procedure that even ICTY claims to follow. So should Mrs. Subotic. Mrs. Subotic omits entirely the fundamental issue of the political setting in which Plavsic’s plea bargain and “confession” took place. To use Mrs. Subotic’s own terminology [p. 48], the Plavsic plea bargain was indeed a cynically political operation, only it was not perpetrated by the defendant but by the Tribunal. It should be recalled that around 2002 the dramatic confession of a high profile defendant would have greatly enhanced ICTY’s image simply by showing that the Tribunal was achieving results. Pressure on Yugoslav authorities to persuade or cajole a large number of Serbian fugitives, who were in hiding, to surrender to the Tribunal, which subsequently enabled a new round of trials, bore fruit only several years later. The measure of ICTY’s desperation in 2002 is evidenced by the fact that in the Plavsic case Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte gave in to the defendant’s obstinate demand, making the significant and singular exception, which was contrary to ICTY’s regular procedure, not to require Plavsic to testify as a prosecution witness in other trials. The Tribunal was clearly focused on obtaining at any price the “high value target’s” voluntary admission of guilt and it was prepared to make concessions. Most likely, the reason Mrs. Plavsic was offered a relatively mild prison sentence was not because of the Tribunal’s confused or inconsistent sentencing policy, or out of respect for her gender or past scholarly accomplishments [p. 42], but, whether Mrs. Plavsic was aware of it or not, because at the time the bargaining was taking place she did hold a few good cards. The Tribunal needed, for the galvanizing effect, a high ranking Serbian defendant to “confess” to practically anything perhaps even more than Plavsic needed the Tribunal to escape the rigors of a lengthy trial. Hence, Plavsic’s disingenuous “statement of remorse” was welcomed. In the end it did not turn out what it was initially cracked up to be, but because of apparent benefits to the Tribunal’s image and operation, as Mrs. Subotic correctly observes, it “received incredible political and scholarly attention”. [Page 46] The subsequent disappointment of the Tribunal’s supporters is understandable, but morally an unjustly cornered person is fully entitled to resort to stratagems to alleviate his or her plight. Mrs. Subotic’s reference to the “expectation and hope displayed by many international justice promoters that war crimes trials may lead to truthful confessions, apologies, or acknowledgments of abuses” is awkward, to put it mildly. The author is a political scientist and she is entitled, of course, to hopes and expectations within her scholarly domain. However, from their professional standpoint lawyers might take strong exception to this utterly nonsensical and perhaps also politically motivated statement. No, the purpose of war crimes trials, or any trials for that matter, is not to produce confessions and apologies but to establish facts. Only in Stalin’s Russia and Mao’s China was there an expectation that trials would lead to confessions. Such an expectation renders the concept of a trial in the Western sense of the word — largely superfluous. Curiously, Mrs. Subotic’s continuous insistence on Plavsic’s politically presumed guilt is not borne out even anecdotally by anything she adduces in her text. The closest the author comes to imputing some form of blameworthy conduct to Plavsic is where she quotes the latter’s ethnic slurs at the expense of Bosnian Muslims. [Page 51] The cited comments indisputably are intemperate, but by US First Amendment standards they still constitute permissible speech. And whatever one might think of it, they do not come within the purview of the punitive provisions of the Tribunal’s Statute. Moreover, the articulation of such harsh and disparaging sentiments toward war-time adversaries is hardly unheard of. These Bosnian Muslim cartoons which brutally disparage Serbs carry a message at least as offensive as Mrs. Plavsic’s remarks: [IMAGES: http://us.srebrenica-project.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Krvavi-tragovi.jpg <http://us.srebrenica-project.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Krvavi-tragovi.jpg> http://us.srebrenica-project.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Krivac-za-genocid.jpg <http://us.srebrenica-project.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Krivac-za-genocid.jpg> ] Cartoons about Serbs which appeared in major US publications during the 1990s are equally uncomplimentary: [IMAGES: http://us.srebrenica-project.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Love-among-the-ruins_page-0002-794x1024.jpg <http://us.srebrenica-project.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Love-among-the-ruins_page-0002-794x1024.jpg> http://us.srebrenica-project.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Love-among-the-ruins_page-0001-794x1024.jpg <http://us.srebrenica-project.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Love-among-the-ruins_page-0001-794x1024.jpg> ] Here are a few of the Allied posters with unflattering depictions of German during World War I : [IMAGES: http://us.srebrenica-project.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Hanging-German-brewers.jpg <http://us.srebrenica-project.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Hanging-German-brewers.jpg> http://us.srebrenica-project.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/699px-Harry_R._Hopps_Destroy_this_mad_brute_Enlist_-_U.S._Army_03216u_edit-205x300.jpg <http://us.srebrenica-project.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/699px-Harry_R._Hopps_Destroy_this_mad_brute_Enlist_-_U.S._Army_03216u_edit-205x300.jpg> ] And here is an Austro-Hungarian depiction of Serbs at the start of World War I: [IMAGE: http://us.srebrenica-project.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Serbien-muss-sterbien.jpeg <http://us.srebrenica-project.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Serbien-muss-sterbien.jpeg> ] Depictions of the Japanese during World War II were not just unflattering but also shamelessly racist: [IMAGES: http://us.srebrenica-project.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/800px-Alaska_-_death-trap_for_the_Jap_LCCN98510121-700x390.jpg <http://us.srebrenica-project.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/800px-Alaska_-_death-trap_for_the_Jap_LCCN98510121-700x390.jpg> http://us.srebrenica-project.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Salvage_Scrap_propaganda_poster_crop2.jpg <http://us.srebrenica-project.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Salvage_Scrap_propaganda_poster_crop2.jpg> ] And last but not least, this is the humorous way Croats view Serbs today: [IMAGE: http://us.srebrenica-project.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Serbian-family-tree-220x300.jpeg <http://us.srebrenica-project.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Serbian-family-tree-220x300.jpeg> ] Why should Biljana Plavsic be held to a different standard? Finally, Mrs. Subotic’s contention that the “Plavšić case demonstrates that the international justice focus on individualizing accountability for mass atrocity is ill equipped to deal with the collectivist nature of such crimes” is perplexing. What alternate focus and what mode of accountability other than individual is the author advocating? Collective? If so, the position she takes is most disturbing. Article 7 of the ICTY Statute <https://www.icty.org/x/file/Legal%20Library/Statute/statute_sept09_en.pdf> recognizes only individual criminal responsibility. Paragraph 1 of Article 7 specifically stresses the individual nature of criminal liability. What mode of liability does Mrs. Subotic propose to substitute for it? This is an important question not because Mrs. Subotic has the power to change the conceptual foundations of Western jurisprudence and bring social groups or nations that she dislikes collectively into the dock, but because suggesting such a notion even hypothetically undermines, or at least diminishes, a fundamental principle of what is considered justice in this part of the world. “Collectivist crimes,” whatever these are, and Mrs. Subotic owes her readers clear guidance on that point, would seemingly require collective punishment. Is the author really willing to go that far? She should seriously ponder the ultimate ramifications of her thought, if that is the direction in which she is taking her argument. Whatever her current political allegiances or passport, Mrs... Subotic’s ethnicity is rooted in the same “collective” that generated Mrs. Plavsic, as objectionable as the author may find her. Hasty broadening of the scope of criminal liability could work to Mrs... Subotic’s disadvantage. She would be well advised therefore not only to keep criminal liability individual but also to insist, for her own personal protection and just in case someone should take her philosophical musings seriously, on all the legal safeguards which our marvelous and increasingly neglected tradition of jurisprudence has bequeathed to us. At the end of her text, Mrs. Subotic acknowledges the research assistance of Joshua Fryer. Without meaning to be facetious, one must wonder what research help could possibly have been required to cobble together this mediocre and platitudinous production. Endnote: [1] The Krstic trial judgment was notably non-committal on the issue of reburials. While absolving the defendant personally of knowledge or involvement in the alleged cover-up, the Chamber admitted that evidence that it occurred was at that point generally scarce. That was in 2001, but conveniently plea bargainer Momir Nikolic came along a year later to fill in the details. In the Krstic judgment, while claiming that there was forensic evidence of a “concerted effort to conceal the mass killings by relocating the primary graves,” the Chamber concedes nevertheless that “the Prosecution presented very little evidence linking Drina Corps Brigades to the reburials and no eyewitnesses to any of this activity were brought before this Trial Chamber.” (Krstic Trial Judgment, par. 257) Jelena Subotic – The Cruelty of False Remorse <http://us.srebrenica-project.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Jelena-Subotic-The-Cruelty-of-False-Remorse.pdf> === 3 === Premi “Giuseppe Torre” per elaborati critici sull'ICTY – SECONDA EDIZIONE [THIS CALL IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE: http://www.cnj.it/home/en/international-law/9194-giuseppe-torre-award-2ed.html <http://www...cnj.it/home/en/international-law/9194-giuseppe-torre-award-2ed.html> ] Al fine di diffondere una visione critica della nascita e dell’operato del “Tribunale penale internazionale per la ex Jugoslavia” (ICTY), JUGOCOORD ONLUS bandisce per l’anno 2020 due premi SCARICA IL BANDO IN FORMATO PDF <http://www.cnj.it/home/images/INIZIATIVE/ICTY/Bando2019.pdf> Premi “Giuseppe Torre” per elaborati critici sul Tribunale per la ex Jugoslavia SECONDA EDIZIONE Premessa Al fine di diffondere una visione critica della nascita e dell’operato del “Tribunale penale internazionale per la ex Jugoslavia” (ICTY), JUGOCOORD ONLUS bandisce per l’anno 2020 due premi. Oggetto I premi saranno assegnati a saggi o articoli scientifici, inediti alla data di scadenza del Bando, dedicati all’analisi critica dell’operato dell’ICTY. Saranno accettate opere, redatte in italiano o in inglese, di lunghezza non superiore alle 50 cartelle (90mila battute, spazi inclusi). I testi devono fornire un contributo significativo allo studio e alla divulgazione della materia, scandagliando la genesi e l’azione dell’ICTY. In particolare, in conformità agli intenti dell'istitutore del premio [1] <http://www.cnj.it/home/it/diritto-internazionale/9193-premi-giuseppe-torre-2ed.html#_ftn1>, verrà valutata l'attività dell'ICTY quale strumento di grande rilievo nel quadro della vicenda internazionale che ha portato alla fine della Repubblica Federativa Socialista di Jugoslavia e poi della Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia (Serbia e Montenegro). Le opere saranno sottoposte a un primo vaglio da parte della Giuria, che ne verificherà l’interesse sotto uno o più tra i profili seguenti: - legittimità (della istituzione stessa); - imparzialità (nella formulazione delle accuse e nell'irrogazione ed esecuzione delle condanne); - contributo alla pace tra le parti in conflitto sul territorio della ex Repubblica Federativa Socialista di Jugoslavia; - tutela dei diritti degli imputati (ivi compresi: vita, salute, difesa, giusto trattamento di pena); - eventuali contraddizioni con i principi, come vigenti nel Diritto internazionale, di sovranità degli Stati e di autodeterminazione dei popoli (discriminati). Saranno particolarmente apprezzati quegli elaborati che, pur scientificamente rigorosi e approfonditi, siano tuttavia adatti alla divulgazione del tema anche verso i non-specialisti, evitando mere rassegne giurisprudenziali e tecnicismi eccessivi. Premi Sono previsti due premi, il primo dell’ammontare di euro 7.000 netti e il secondo dell’ammontare di euro 3.000 netti, che saranno assegnati a insindacabile giudizio della Giuria alle due opere ritenute migliori. L’importo versato sarà soggetto alle trattenute fiscali e sociali previste per legge a cura di JUGOCOORD ONLUS. La Giuria si riserva di non assegnare uno o entrambi i premi qualora le opere pervenute non siano ritenute meritevoli. Modalità di partecipazione Possono concorrere cittadini di ogni paese, età, titolo di studio. Ogni elaborato deve essere inviato in 4 copie cartacee integrali e identiche, che potranno essere spedite a partire dal 1/1/2020 e dovranno pervenire entro e non oltre il 30/3/2020 (scadenza del bando), tramite raccomandata A/R all’indirizzo: JUGOCOORD ONLUS, C.P. 13114 (Uff. Roma 4), 00185 ROMA - ITALIA. Alle copie cartacee si devono allegare nella stessa busta, che recherà la dicitura Concorso Torre 2020, 4 copie (di cui almeno una con firma autografa, anche se non autenticata) della Domanda di partecipazione al premio, in cui vanno specificati: nome e cognome, data e luogo di nascita, cittadinanza, recapito postale, indirizzo mail e numero telefonico presso i quali si desidera ricevere comunicazioni relative alla procedura, estremi di un documento di identità, residenza, codice fiscale o equivalente. A corredo della Domanda si aggiungeranno inoltre: – un breve testo di motivazione della partecipazione al concorso con descrizione dei piani o ipotesi di utilizzo futuro dell’elaborato stesso; – la dichiarazione che l’elaborato è inedito; – l’impegno, in caso di vincita, a interpellare in prima istanza JUGOCOORD ONLUS per eventuali progetti di pubblicazione dell’opera, riservando in particolare alla stessa ONLUS i diritti per la edizione in lingua italiana (diritti che la ONLUS cederà senza nulla pretendere in caso di rinuncia a pubblicare); – conferma esplicita di aver preso visione del presente bando e di accettarlo nella sua integrità; – autorizzazione al trattamento dei dati personali per le finalità legate al concorso ai sensi del Regolamento europeo sulla protezione dei dati personali (GDPR). Le copie pervenute NON saranno restituire agli Autori, né divulgate a meno di accordi specifici intercorsi direttamente con JUGOCOORD ONLUS. Una delle copie pervenute sarà acquisita nell’Archivio di JUGOCOORD ONLUS, le altre rimarranno nella disponibilità dei membri della Giuria. Non saranno prese in considerazione domande inviate oltre la data di scadenza del bando o redatte in modo non conforme a quanto previsto nel presente articolo. Giuria e premiazione La Giuria è composta da tre esperti delle questioni oggetto degli elaborati, non tesserati alla ONLUS. La Giuria procederà con giudizio insindacabile alla valutazione dei lavori pervenuti e procederà all’assegnazione dei premi tenendo in considerazione, oltre a quanto già indicato nell’oggetto del bando, il rigore metodologico, l’attinenza al tema proposto, l’originalità e il potenziale impatto ai fini della diffusione di una visione critica sull’istituzione e sull’operato dell’ICTY. L’assegnazione dei premi sarà resa pubblica a partire dal 20/10/2020 sul sito internet www.cnj.it <http://www.cnj.it/> ... I vincitori dei premi saranno altresì avvertiti ai recapiti da loro forniti nella Domanda di partecipazioneentro il 10/11/2020, e saranno invitati, con rimborso spese di viaggio, all’iniziativa di premiazione che si terrà nelle settimane successive. Per ulteriori informazioni su questo Bando contattare: jugoco...@tiscali.it <mailto:jugoco...@tiscali...it> . [1] <http://www.cnj.it/home/it/diritto-internazionale/9193-premi-giuseppe-torre-2ed.html#_ftnref1>) Al compianto Giuseppe Torre, militante contro la guerra, si deve il lascito con cui è stato possibile bandire questo Concorso. Una sua analisi della crisi jugoslava della fine del XX secolo è nell’articolo “La dissoluzione della Iugoslavia e l'attuale disastro umanitario (2006): http://www.cnj.it/AMICIZIA/giuseppetorre.htm#gamadi2006 <http://www.cnj.it/AMICIZIA/giuseppetorre.htm#gamadi2006> .
