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...completed until 1954). Early in the Hitler regime she assembled two short films about Nazi functions and officials. But it is her feature documentaries that even today make her noted and notorious. Triumph of the Will (1935), a record of the sixth Nazi Party Congress at Nuremberg, starred Adolf Hitler. The two-part Olympia (1938), a record of the 1936 Berlin Games, starred Jesse Owens, the black American runner...
International law sometimes seems abstruse, but it is absolutely clear on this issue. A shooting war is no excuse for mistreating civilians or military prisoners. The legal precedents were set at the trials of major war criminals in Nuremberg and Tokyo after World War II. The underlying principles were endorsed by the U.N. General Assembly and the U.N. International Law Commission and codified in the fourth Geneva convention...
...what does the West intend to do about it? The U.N. Security Council has deplored "grave breaches of international humanitarian law" in Bosnia and Herzegovina time and again. Eagleburger took it a step further, warning the criminals of "a second Nuremberg" and linking specific men to the crimes: four Serbs, two Croats and a Muslim. He also named three political leaders, including Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, as bearing special responsibility. Yet there are no signs that any of this is more than the rhetoric of outrage. Two of the men Eagleburger fingered are to fly to Geneva this month...
Appalling crimes have been committed, but proving that a particular suspect is guilty of a specific atrocity, as is legally required, will be difficult. The Nuremberg tribunal was aided greatly by meticulous Nazi record keeping; no such paper trail of official orders and reports is likely to turn up in Bosnia. And if solid indictments are eventually prepared, no court exists to + try such cases. Even more difficult, there is no way to arrest the suspects. "No one knows where this will lead," says a Western diplomat in Belgrade, "but we have crimes here of such a scale that...
...second Nuremberg may not be possible, but the U.N. is on a path that could lead to trials. The Security Council last October authorized a commission of legal experts from five countries to document war crimes in Yugoslavia. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said he hoped the process thus begun would end by creating an appropriate court to judge the accused. The expert commission has already received 3,000 pages of testimony on war crimes in Bosnia from governments, aid organizations and individuals, mostly refugees. After analyzing the information, the experts will report to Boutros-Ghali...