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BRIEFLY NOTED: BRAMMERTZ SLAMS SERBIAN TRIBUNAL COOPERATION

Chief prosecutor said there has been no notable progress in delivering remaining suspects to Hague.

By Simon Jennings
in The Hague

Hague tribunal chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz criticised Serbian cooperation with the court in a report to the United Nations Security Council this week. In his
first address to the UNSC since taking...   More >>>

THERE WAS PRESSURE
ON OUR WORK

Interview w/ Geoffrey
Nice, Former ICTY
Prosecutor

NIN, 15 May 2008

The name of Geoffrey Nice is synonymous with the trial of Slobodan Milosevic. After the main actor of the most important trial died, the prosecutor Nice is again barrister Nice. Last year he became Sir Geoffrey Nice, a title that is the highest state decoration in Great Britain and that is not hereditary, and granted to him for his meritorious service in the...
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WHY PROSECUTION
FAILED TO PROVE WHAT
'EVERYBODY KNOWS' -
PART THREE

OBVIOUS NEED
NOT BE TRUE

The Hague, 09.04.2008.

Ramush Haradinaj, Idriz Balaj and Lahi Brahimaj, three former KLA commanders, were
charged with dozens of murder. The prosecution called the most evidence and most witnesses to prove the murder of a Kosovo Albanian woman, Sanije Balaj. A total of thirteen witnesses took the stand to testify...   More >>>

WHY DID PROSECUTION FAIL TO PROVE WHAT 'EVERYBODY KNOWS' - PART TWO

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 'PROBABILITY' AND EVIDENCE 'BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT'

The Hague, 08.04.2008.

The failure of the prosecution to prove who killed 30 Albanians, Serbs and Roma whose bodies were found in September 1998 in the Radonjic Lake canal is one of the reasons why the Trial Chamber acquitted former KLA commanders Ramush Haradinaj...   More >>>

WHY DID PROSECUTION FAIL TO PROVE WHAT 'EVERYBODY KNOWS'

The Hague, 07.04.2008.

Insistence on the fact that the trial went on in an atmosphere of fear and on substantial problems both the Trial Chamber and the prosecution faced in
dealing with witnesses who didn't feel safe despite the protection measures sounded almost as an excuse for the judgment delivered to Haradinaj,
Balaj and Brahimaj. Haradinaj and Balaj were acquitted and Brahimaj was...   More >>>

WELCOME TO
IWPR'S TRIBUNAL
UPDATE No. 545

April 4, 2008

SERBIAN ANGER AT HARADINAJ ACQUITTAL Not-guilty verdict in case against former Kosovo premier provokes storm in Serbia. By Merdijana Sadovic in Sarajevo and Aleksandar Roknic in Belgrade. COMMENT: ICTY ARCHIVE MUST BE OPEN TO ALL Political leaders should seek full and open access to tribunal archive rather than debate its final resting place. By Robert...
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FOURTEENTH ANNUAL
REPORT

Fourteenth annual report of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the
Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991

02/4/2008, HCHRS

The fourteenth annual report of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia covers the period from 1 August 2006 to 31 July 2007...
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CARLA DEPARTS. FINALLY

William Montgomery

6 January 2008

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has a solid list of accomplishments. There
are many genuine war criminals who are either serving well-deserved sentences or awaiting trial. The massive amount of documentation made available in the indictments, judgments and trials themselves have helped to create an invaluable base
of information...   More >>>

SHORT VERSION FROM
BLIC OR NACIONAL

DEL PONTE DESTROYED PROSECUTION

13 December 2007

Outgoing Hague Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte destroyed the prosecution, says her former colleague Geoffrey Nice. "A considerable number of good professionals left the prosecutor's office because they were unable to work in an environment where unprofessionalism, cultivated during her mandate, reigned. At management...   More >>>

INTERVIEW WITH
GEOFFREY NICE

DEL PONTE RUINED
THE HAGUE OTP

Dnevni Avaz,
12 December 2007

Interviewer:
Saed Numanovic, pg 5

An exclusive interview with Geoffrey Nice, a former Tribunal Prosecutor

Geoffrey Nice, a British lawyer who led the
historical process against Slobodan Milosevic before ICTY, is coming to Sarajevo these days. The man who day after day represented...
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NICE: CARLA DEL PONTE DID NOT WORK AS A LAWYER BUT RATHER
LIKE AN AMATEUR POLITICIAN

Jutarnji list

8 December 2007

Interviewer:
Augustin Palokaj

Prosecutor Geoffrey Nice who was in charge of the most important
proceedings at the Hague Tribunal, the one against Slobodan Milosevic,
speaks for the first time about the backstage
games surrounding the
trial. You...   More >>>

NEWS EXCLUSIVE

Jutarnji list

October 2007

Milosevic's Prosecutor in
the Hague Geoffrey Nice responds to Florence Hartmann's accusations
and claims he should be given credit for collecting evidence against Milosevic Carla Del Ponte is responsible for politicizing the Prosecution Hartmann had access to the private archives of Mrs. Del Ponte, but interpreted events in a manner that solely benefits Mrs. Del Ponte ZAGREB -
the Chief...   More >>>

JUTARNJI LIST

April 2007

Sir Geoffrey Nice

In your newspaper's issue
of 12 April 2007, in the article "Sanader: Croatia isalso interested in why the documents did not reach
the ICJ" it is written: "The New York Times published on Monday that in the trial before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague, Serbia withheld some crucial evidence concerning its role in the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995, by...   More >>>

THE CAPITULATION OF
THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL

Marko Attila Hoare,
June 2005

06/27/2005

The recent announcement, that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia will not be issuing any more indictments against war-
crimes suspects, is a disgrace. As a Research Officer, I worked at the Tribunal in 2001 on the
case against Slobodan Milosevic. I believed in what the Tribunal was trying to accomplish...   More >>>

AMNESTY
INTERNATIONAL'S
CONCERNS ON THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE
"COMPLETION STRATEGY"
OF THE INTERNATIONAL
CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR
THE FORMER
YUGOSLAVIA

06/27/2005, HCHRS

Amnesty International believes that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia has played a major role in addressing impunity for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed...
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