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Every day at lunchtime this July, my coworkers and I overlooked the press camped out on our lawn, waiting for the arrival of a war criminal. Of course, this was to be expected; I was interning at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. “The Butcher of Bosnia,” Radovan Karadzic, was caught and turned over during my stay, making headlines all over the globe. Karadzic, the one-time president of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, was being brought to justice for his war crimes, particularly the decision...
...imagine how I would feel if I were in their situation. I was forced to wonder why Harvard Law Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz is representing war criminal Momcilo Krajisnik and why the international community at large didn’t do more to help rebuild the former Yugoslavia...
Goldstone, a native of South Africa, described his experience leading the prosecution against war criminals from the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the Hague to illustrate the sometimes-blurred line between politics and international criminal...
...Fiat, Bologna social worker Claudio cut the ignition and yanked up the emergency break. "Get ready," he said. It was January 2007, and as part of my reporting for an article on immigration I was about to meet some 15 Roma families who'd emigrated from the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. Claudio's warning was partly to prepare me for the rough conditions - rusting doors and walls, leaking pipes, power cuts - that I would encounter over the next hour as the longtime city caseworker showed me around the fenced-in cluster of aluminum trailers...
...Munk's project is one of the biggest in a region long riven by wars and political turmoil. Montenegro was sealed off from the outside world by the violent breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, and later by its political alliance with Serbia. But since winning independence from Belgrade in 2006, it has seen a rush to develop its pristine coastline, sparking worries among some locals that their patrimony may be sold off in unsustainable ways. "Montenegrins have good reason to be incredulous," says Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic, during an interview in the just-completed Hotel Splendid in the bustling...