General Radislav Krstic: A war crimes case study

From: The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

This article will focus on one major war crimes trial in which I participated as a judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). In microcosm, I believe it raises and perhaps helps to answer many questions surrounding war crimes tribunals, their achievements and shortcomings. Among those questions are: Should major military exercises and the chaotic and anarchistic behaviors by soldiers and their leaders they so often spawn be justiciable at all or better left to the settlement negotiations? Is it fair for the international community to impose war crimes ...

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