Germinal Civikov followed from the beginning, as a journalist, the process against Slobodan Miloszewicz, who was in the court building in The Hague. This book describes the course and essence of the process, as the author understood and judged it. The court proceedings against the accused proved to be a complete failure, in Civikov's opinion (from the publisher).
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Introduction to the Polish edition
The “Miloshević case” did not end with his death in custody of the global Criminal Court of Yugoslavia in The Hague, where he was held and tried. The case inactive lives in various types of publications that show that not only prosecutors, but besides judges were prosecutors in the process. Both acting on a political order, utilizing false evidence and bribed witnesses, were to prove that “crimes” of Miloshević justified NATO's unlawful intervention against Yugoslavia, which the UN safety Council did not agree to. In all proportions, the “Miloshević case” may be found to have any parallels with the “Dreyfus case”, specified as the fact that the court and the mass media, before being found guilty, found Miloshević guilty. In his book "Der Milošević Prozess, Bericht eines Beobachters" published in 2006 in Vienna, Germinal Civikov, an Austrian citizen who personally watched the conduct of the Miloshević trial day after day, he made accounts so convincing that in any respects his book resembles the celebrated "I accuse" (J’accuse) Emil Zola in the case of Dreyfus.
Miloshević as a politician was surely not immaculate. He made mistakes about Kosovo, sinned with arrogance and self-confidence. But these were not actions that would violate global humanitarian law or brutally violate it. The Court was incapable to prove it to him. He besides failed to prove his engagement in a criminal conspiracy. In the trial Miloshević defended himself. This was contrary to the will of the Court, which repeatedly attempted to appoint him ‘an ex officio defence’, following a ‘care’ over the wellness of the accused. Without uncovering a substantive answer to the defendant's questions, the judges frequently turned off the microphone. It can be said that the Court has been on the defensive all along. Miloshević's trial due to the biased behaviour of prosecutors and judges in it, and especially the justice of the ruling, British justice Richard May, has compromised global criminal justice for a long time in the eyes of the public. This looked like a political demonstration, and it seemed that there should not be area for specified processes in a democratic Europe. The death of Miloshević was relieved. This freed him from the problem of filling out the political order and convicting the accused, despite the deficiency of evidence of guilt. In this situation, the abrupt death of the accused appears to have been the best solution for the Court, as the alternate could only have been acquittal. The author of the book, without placing a dot above the ‘i’, points out that the Court could have contributed to this death, and at least did nothing, and that was his work to prevent it.
Germinal Civkov, who is simply a journalist, formulating allegations against the Court, besides does not spare his colleagues, journalists. The Miloshević process in most cases the media reported biasedly, prejudging the defendant's guilt.
According to the author, in the eyes of the public, it was the judges and journalists who were on the bench.
Radovan Karajić, erstwhile Bosnian Serb leader, wanted for 13 years was detained in Belgrade in July 2008. As a war criminal from the war period in the erstwhile Yugoslavia, he will be tried by the United Nations Court of War Crimes in The Hague. During the preliminary hearing, he challenged the jurisdiction of the UN Court and refused to respond to any of the 11 charges. It is interesting to follow this process through the prism presented in this publication of the Miloszewic process.
Anna Parzymies
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Transmission
When Slobodan Miloshević was handed over to a prison in Scheveningen under the Hague on 28 June 2001, we initially saw an easy-to-remember image that flickered on tv screens in many apartments around the world. He had something unreal, and at the same time something overwhelmingly real. In a cool light, in the mediate of the night, any characters were soundless moving around the helicopter, and 2 men were pushing a 3rd tied-up before each other, then falling in the ghostly twilight of a powerful building. The fact that this scene acted so depressingly, was due to the faint and light light, which was mainly due to the evasive amateur shot of these photographs. It was only due to that that scene was real. The man did not resist, but he did not walk freely, absolutely not.
I knew the building besides well, but it stands in the process, leading to the dunes, and further to the beach where the pump station is located. 2 mighty towers, making the fortress appear, and the oak gate between them appeared. For 24 seconds, a painting is released from Slobodan Miloshević's arrival to this place, announcing: "The Balkan torturer" was released for a well-deserved punishment. The Dutch movie producer, Jos de Putter, cut out from this amateur shot a kind of lead in his documentary entitled “De zaak Milošević” (the Miloszzewic case). Whoever took this photograph must be a sly fox, stated de Putter, due to the fact that all time Miloszewicz appears on the screen in a cool light led by 2 men like a night thief, an anonymous amateur of this movie grabs his royalties for him.
