The End of Slobodan Milošević - Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice QC
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2024
- Slobodan Milošević died a few months before the end of his trial. There were no closing arguments and there was no judgment by the judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia -- the ICTY.
Sir Geoffrey Nice had been preparing closing arguments as the case proceeded and will explain what some of them were. Would those arguments have suggested Milošević was a deranged political dictator or merely a politician seduced by events to make bad -- criminal -- decisions? How should a prosecution craft its arguments about a single individual on trial for events that happened in a grave conflict without running the risk of 'over-prosecution'? How can four years of a trial focused on one individual avoid distortion of the complex political, military and historical realities which made mass atrocities possible?
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This lecture is from a superior point of view of a national entity whose existence is not being challenged.
46:56 Mr Nice, see the very objective Mr Paddy (a Bliar's special envoy to Kosovo) Pantsdown in the UA-cam video: "Paddy Ashdown arming the KLA terrorists in Kosovo in 1998."
I grew up in those times on that territory and accomplished my academic achievement in the west. I can state that the issue was a very complex situation and it deserves a complex analysis
When he was alive Slobodan Milošević did the International Criminal Tribunal, again and again. It was a horrible process! Now he's dead, and can't defend himself anymore, the former members of the ICT take the last word.
This tribunal was a blasfemy of any law let stay the international one.
Is it plausible to suggest that certain actions exceed the philosophical foundation of legal thought? Events that once carried out, justice or anything close to it can never be achieved. Atleast not within the current legal paradigm. Perhaps a new definition needs to be worked out, to express actions that tend to get lumped together as 'war crimes.' The closest term would be 'crimes against humanity.'
Nuremburg Trials bro
Milosevic found not guilty. Thats all
Nice should be arrested and charged for deprivation of liberty.
It's very interesting to me that the Hague, an "international court" would be guided so strongly by the agenda of the Western powers. For example, NATO bombs Serbia, and therefore the only perpetrators of "war crimes" must have been Serbian, because NATO bombed them, and if NATO had not bombed the absolute evilest of evils, then it would make everybody look bad, so this narrative better have closure that affirms the obvious: Serbia was the only aggressor nation in the grueling and seemingly unending conflicts upon the breakup of Yugoslavia after Tito's death in 1980. In reality, this is far from the truth, as the nations were more or less strategically composed to erupt into conflict were it not for the guiding and iron clenched hand of the Communist Ideology that made Tito who he was. For him, Tito, Communism worked. But for the many generations after he died, that found themselves in a conflict that made little sense and was used as a proxy turf war for larger international powers and interests, Communism was not the answer, simply the prologue to an excruciating journey. When people talk about this warring period, they neglect to mention the historical momentum leading up to the tensions that be. All this to support a narrative that is media-at-large approved because without an evil to vanquish, how can anyone be a hero? Frankly, there are many guilty parties and guilty war criminals from this period in time, but this narrative paints a one-sided and hopeless picture that NATO bombing raids are not only accurate and prescient, but also the shocking revelation that an organization purported to be an unbiased international body can be used as an instrument of nations in political turf wars. International Policy may as well be a daytime drama, for when Super Powers pick sides before knowing all the facts, what else can come but chaos?
Fantastic, interesting lecture by Nice. Kudos to him for his great work getting these atrocities on the historical record!
This tyrant was so cute 🧐