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| Location: | OSI-New York | |
| Event Date: | September 20, 2010 | |
| Event Time: | 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. | |
| Speakers: | Judith Armatta, Nina Bang-Jensen, Aryeh Neier | |
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The Open Society Justice Initiative is hosting a panel discussion on Judith Armatta’s book Twilight of Impunity: The War Crimes Trial of Slobodan Milosevic, based on the author´s experience covering the trial of Slobodan Milosevic.
An eyewitness account of the first major international war-crimes tribunal since the Nuremberg trials, Twilight of Impunity, published by Duke University Press, is a gripping guide to the prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. The historic proceedings, which tried not only the "Butcher of the Balkans," but also the viability of international law itself, began in 2002 and ended abruptly with Milosevics’s death in 2006. Judith Armatta, a lawyer who spent three years in the former Yugoslavia during Milosevic’s reign, had a front-row seat at the trial.
In Twilight of Impunity, she brings the dramatic proceedings to life, explains complex legal issues, and assesses the trial’s implications for victims of the conflicts in the Balkans during the 1990s and international justice more broadly. Armatta acknowledges the trial’s flaws, particularly Milosevic’s grandstanding and attacks on the institutional legitimacy of the International Criminal Tribunal. Yet she argues that the trial provided an indispensable legal and historical narrative of events in the former Yugoslavia and a valuable forum for victims to tell their stories and seek justice. The trial addressed crucial legal issues, such as commanders’ responsibility for crimes committed by subordinates, and it helped to create a framework for conceptualizing and organizing other large-scale international criminal tribunals. The prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague was an important step toward ending impunity for leaders who perpetrate egregious crimes against humanity
A light lunch will be provided, and copies of Twilight of Impunity will be available for purchase.
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