From the killing fields to the courthouse

Photo courtesy ICTY.

Photo courtesy ICTY.

Amila Jašarević escaped the genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina by becoming a refugee in Denmark, at the age of twelve. In this report, she details how the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, failed the victims and survivors of one of the worst genocides in history: Sentencing a man to a few years of imprisonment for killing about a hundred unarmed boys and men… making deals with people who organised ethnic cleansing and shortening their indictments… granting war criminals early release because they were so kind as to cook and bake in prison… destroying evidence… trying to silence those who speak up about the goings on at the tribunal…

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