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Vroegere Joegoslavische de rechtbankspreekbuis van oorlogsmisdaden die voor contempt wordt aangeklaagd

Vrijdag, 5 September, 2008

Door Paul Mitchell | De internationale Misdadige Rechtbank voor vroeger Joegoslavië (ICTY) heeft Florence Hartmann, de spreekbuis van vroegere Belangrijkste Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte van de rechtbank vanaf 1999 tot 2006, op twee lasten van contempt van hof aangeklaagd. Hartmann is bevolen om voor het hof op 15 te verschijnen September, dat met het openbaren van informatie met betrekking tot vertrouwelijke besluiten wordt belast die door rechters in de proef van de recente Servische leider Slobodan Milosevic worden genomen. Indien gevonden schuldig, kon zij zeven jaar in gevangenis of een boete van 100.000 €(US$150,000) onder ogen zien.

Volgens de contempt lasten, hartmann-die van Westelijke macht „kritiek is geweest wist dat de informatie op het tijdstip van de onthulling werd gemaakt vertrouwelijk was, dat de besluiten waarvan de informatie werd getrokken om werden bevolen vertrouwelijk worden ingediend, en dat door haar onthulling zij vertrouwelijke informatie aan het publiek.“ openbaarde

De lasten hebben op de onthulling van Hartmann van de vertrouwelijke informatie in haar boek betrekking Vrede en Straf: De geheime Oorlogen van Politiek en Internationale Rechtvaardigheid (Paix et Châtiment) gepubliceerd op September 10, 2007, en in een gerechtigd artikel De „essentiële Verborgen Documenten van de Volkerenmoord,“ gepubliceerd door het Bosnische Instituut op 21 Januari, 2008.

De lasten zeggen haar boek details van besluiten door het beroephof tussen September 20, 2005, en April 6, 2006, en de vertrouwelijke aard van die besluiten geeft. De hoofd eiser de Heer Geoffrey Nice zei hij „fundamentele informatie.“ werd ontzegd Het hof weigerde ook om het zelfde bewijsmateriaal aan het Internationale Hof van Justitie In een volkerenmoordgeval te overhandigen dat door Bosnia tegen Servië voor de slachting van 8.000 Bosnische Moslims in Srebrenica in 1995 door VRS eenheden onder het bevel van Algemene Ratko mladic-officieel de grootste massamoord in Europa sinds Oorlog van de Wereld Twee wordt gebracht. ICJ kon niet de directe verantwoordelijkheid van de Servische overheid voor de acties van VRS bewijzen, in plaats daarvan vindend dat Servië de Overeenkomst van de Volkerenmoord door om zijn invloed er niet in te slagen te gebruiken om volkerenmoord of arrestatie Mladic te verhinderen had overtreden.

In haar artikel, kritiseert Hartmann ICTY voor het bijdragen tot „het verbergen van de waarheid“ en het overtreden van de resolutie van de Veiligheidsraad van de V.N. Die de rechtbank in 1993 bepaalde, die het „werk van ICTY verklaart zal zonder enig nadeel aan de rechten van de slachtoffers worden uitgevoerd compensatie voor schade te zoeken die als resultaat van internationale humanitaire wet wordt opgelopen.“

Hartmann denies the contempt charges, saying, “For me and my lawyers, it’s a question of free speech and the right to inform, with transparency, the public on a subject of public interest.

“We cannot say international justice is not a subject of public interest; it’s a subject even of humanity interest.”

Hartmann says she found out about the charges from a news release before she had been officially notified, explaining, “The registry sent me a copy yesterday night [August 27], three hours after the press was informed, and my lawyer who was representing me at the point I was a suspect had not been informed yet.”

Her lawyer, William Bourdon, denounced the charges, saying that they were “motivated by non-legal concerns,” and added, “Taking action against Ms. Hartmann means that all those who, legitimately, in the interest of the public and of history, wish to bear witness to their actions in the service of international penal justice will be muzzled.”

Hartmann also expressed surprise at the timing of the charges a year after her book was published. They come less than a month after her outspoken criticism of the Western powers following the arrest of fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic hit the world’s headlines. She accused the West of protecting Karadzic, who was arrested in July for genocide and other war crimes allegedly committed during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995, when he was president of the Bosnian Serb Republic and supreme commander of the Bosnian Serb army (VRS). Karadzic is also accused of responsibility for the 44-month shelling of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, and the Srebrenica massacre.

Karadzic asserts that he was granted an immunity deal by former US Ambassador to the UN Richard Holbrooke, who brokered the Dayton Accord that ended the Bosnian War, provided he disappeared from public life. He has asked the Tribunal to order the appearance of Holbrooke and former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and two other officials allegedly involved in the deal. Holbrooke and Albright deny the accusations.

Hartmann claims that the US, Britain and France “blocked” the arrest of Karadzic and Mladic in order to prevent them putting “the blame for the crimes they have committed on the international community by saying that they have been given a green or orange light to take over the Srebrenica enclave.”

“Sometimes arrest operations were halted by [former French President Jacques] Chirac personally, other times by Clinton.

“Western powers created the conditions for mass killings to happen,” she declared.

Hartmann also maintains that from the day the ICTY was created, “there was an effort to steer justice to justify the actions of the big powers in their response to the war, the genocide.”

“They consistently tried to overlook who was indicted, and then selectively provided evidence and even altered it depending if the Tribunal mandate to establish the truth would harm them or not.”

To date, Hartmann’s book has only been published in French and Bosnian. As a result of the charges, publishers will be less inclined to publish it in English and other languages, denying the book a wider audience. They also serve as a warning to anyone else before the Karadzic trial opens to keep quiet about the role of the Western powers at Srebrenica or in the break-up of Yugoslavia.


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