Indictment at the Hague: The Milosevic Regime and Crimes of the Balkan Wars

by Norman L. Cigar, Paul Williams, Ivo Banac

Overview

The trial of Slobodan Milosevic represents a singular moment in modern history. For the first time a former head of state must answer charges before an International Tribunal for the commission of war crimes.
Taking as its starting point the existing canon of international law and conventions governing actions during war, Indictment at the Hague, represents the most detailed examination of the conduct of the Serbian authorities and the individual responsibility of senior members of its leadership for war crimes.
Citing the precedent of the Nuremberg trials, Cigar and Williams carefully link conscious decisions and specific deeds undertaken by the Milosevic regime that violated the protections guaranteed to civilian populations in war. The volume reproduces a collection of key documents from the Hague Tribunal, U.N. Commissions, and Human Rights Organizations which appear in print together for the first time. Indictment at the Hague is essential for all those concerned with the difficult task of sustaining the Geneva and Hague Conventions, and those who wish to understand how in the era of "never again" the crimes of war continue to challenge the instruments of international law.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814716267
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	06/01/2002
Pages:	339
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Norman Cigar is the author of Genocide in Bosnia: The Policy of "Ethnic Cleansing" and Professor of National Strategy at the United States Marine Corps Command and Staff College. He has also served as a consultant to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague.

Paul Williams is Executive Director of the Public International Law & Policy Group, and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Cambridge. He previously served as an Attorney Adviser in the Office of Legal Adviser for European Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
Ivo Banac is Professor of History at Yale University.

Ivo Banac is Professor of History at Yale University.

Table of Contents

I. A Case for Indictment

II. The Law: War Crimes and Individual Responsibility

III. The Commission of War Crimes in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia

IV. Ordering War Crimes

V. Aiding and Abetting War Crimes

VI. Failure to Prevent and Punish War Crimes

DOCUMENTS

I. The Battle and Siege of Sarajevo

II. “Ethnic Cleansing Operations” in the northeast city of Zvornik

III. Report of the Secretary General, Kofi Annan, to the United Nations

Security Council: The Fall of Srebrenica

IV. United States Reports to the United Nations Security Council

on War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia

V. Final Report of the Commission of Experts to the Secretary General

of the United Nations

VI. Letter of Resignation and List of Periodic Reports Submitted by

Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Special Rapporteur to the UN Commission

on Human Rights

VII. Indictments issued by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Combining legal expertise with the scrupulous analysis of a mass of evidence, Cigar and Williams were the first to make a compelling case for the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic as a war criminal. I believe this work is one of the most important public ions to have appeared in the aftermath of the Bosnian war. It lays down a challenge to the international community that must not go unanswered."
-Noel Malcolm,author of Bosnia: A Short History

Editorial Reviews

""Combining legal expertise with the scrupulous analysis of a mass of evidence, Cigar and Williams were the first to make a compelling case for the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic as a war criminal. I believe this work is one of the most important public ions to have appeared in the aftermath of the Bosnian war. It lays down a challenge to the international community that must not go unanswered."

Noel Malcolm

"Combining legal expertise with the scrupulous analysis of a mass of evidence, Cigar and Williams were the first to make a compelling case for the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic as a war criminal. I believe this work is one of the most important public ions to have appeared in the aftermath of the Bosnian war. It lays down a challenge to the international community that must not go unanswered."
-Noel Malcolm,author of Bosnia: A Short History

From the Publisher

In Indictment at The Hague: The Milosevic Regime and Crimes of the Balkan Wars, Norman Cigar (Genocide in Bosnia), who teaches at the U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College, and law professor Paul Williams (American University) join forces to examine the evidence for the former Serbian president's responsibility for crimes against humanity, as well as the culpability of his associates. They draw on documents from U.N. commissions and the Hague Tribunal (there are over 150 pages of reproduced reports, charges and letters) as well as a strong understanding of international law and precedents set by the Nuremberg trials. (July) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

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