In the last decade of 20th century, a war in former Yugoslavia broke out, once again making Europe witness to an armed conflict. Almost at same time, another local ethnic bloodshed started, but this time distant Africa — Rwanda. Both these events included most horrifying international crimes against humanity: genocide and crimes. To prosecute important commanding figures involved conflicts hold...

Following the 1994 Rwandan genocide, many defendants on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) testified on their own behalf. This article analyzes transcripts of their testimonies to learn (1) how defendants discuss the grave crimes of which they are accused, and (2) how their explanatory styles allow them to rationalize their actions and negotiate their tarnished ident...

Seeking to explain the difficult cases of delayed democratic transition in theWestern Balkans, recent literature argues that ‘national identity’ significantly limits the effectiveness of external actors’ political conditionality. This argument is tested in this article by investigating Serbia’s co-operation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which was dem...

the international criminal court , which is part of the fourth generation of the criminal courts, plays a prominent role in the institutionalization of international humanitarian law (ihl). hence, it was expected that negotiators utilized from previous criminal tribunals experiences and they terminated in the distinctions between gross breaches of international humanitarian law. it was expected...

Abstract The author gives an inventory of Simon Wiesenthal’s advocacy for Bosnia during the 1992–1995 war. Though Wiesenthal played active role in speaking up Bosnia, his activism has been largely neglected existing literature. Based on primary sources at Archive Vienna, this article pieces together story how famed Nazi hunter supported Bosnia-Herzegovina. acted by about atrocities writing lett...