Prosecuting Slobodan Milo&353evic The Unfinished Trial [Hardcover]

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the trial of former Serbian leader Slobodan Miloaevi at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

With the premature death of Miloaevi in March 2006 his trial was left unfinished. Although the traditional objectives of criminal law, such as retribution, justice for victims, and deterrence, were not achieved, the Miloaevi trial archive is a significant historical resource for researchers from various fields. This book extracts details from the collection of documentary and transcript evidence that makes up the trial record  sources which would be almost impossible to extricate without an insiders guiding hand  to allow readers to trace the threads of several historical narratives. The value of this methodology is particularly evident in the Miloaevi case as, acting as his own defence counsel, he responded to, and interacted with, almost all witnesses and evidence presented against him. By providing snapshots of the behaviour displayed by Miloaevi in court while conducting his defence, in combination with passages of carefully selected evidence from an immense archive familiar to few scholars, this volume reveals how these trial records, and trail records in general, are a truly invaluable historical source. The book underlines the premise that any record of a mass atrocities trial, whether finished or unfinished, establishes a record of past events, contributes to interpretations of a historical period and influences the shaping of collective memory.

This book will be of much interest to students of the Former Yugoslavia, war crimes, international law, human rights, international relations and European politics.

Introduction

1. Theoretical Framework, Scope of the Research, and Sources

2. The Leader and the Ideology

3. A Centralised Yugoslavia as a Solutionl#{