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The Difference between Legal Proof and Historical Evidence. The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the Case of Srebrenica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2006

BOB DE GRAAFF
BOB DE GRAAFF
Affiliation:
Instituut Geschiedenis, Kromme Nieuwegracht 66, 3512 HL Utrecht, The Netherlands. E-mail: Bob.deGraaff@let.uu.nl
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Abstract

On 11 March 2006 the former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic was found dead in his prison cell in The Hague, where the case against him at the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was nearing its end. Many people voiced their disappointment about the fact that Milosevic would never receive his verdict. Although this disillusionment is understandable, Milosevic's death also saved the prosecutors and the Tribunal from delivering a judgment that would probably have contributed little to reconciliation in former Yugoslavia. This was particularly so in relation to that part of the indictment that concerned Milosevic's alleged responsibility for the massacre by the Bosnian Serb army of 7500 Bosnian Muslim men and boys following the fall of Srebrenica in July 2005.

Type
Focus: Crimes against Humanitarian Law: International Trials in Perspective
Information
European Review , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , October 2006 , pp. 499 - 512
Copyright
Academia Europaea 2006

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