Srebrenica. A Trial

In July 1995, more than 8,000 Muslim boys and men were abducted from the UN safe area of Srebrenica and killed in a systematic operation. Six years later, the trial of the largest massacre in Europe since World War II comes to an end at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Radislav Krstić, a Bosnian Serb general, is convicted of genocide and sentenced to 46 years in prison – the first verdict of this magnitude since the Nuremberg Trials. Like the Rwanda Tribunal, the court is seen as a precursor to a global criminal court. The transcripts of the interrogations of survivors and relatives of the victims, of perpetrators, witnesses and experts, which are collected in this volume, form a picture of what happened in Srebrenica. They are some of the most harrowing documents of our time. This book is essential for getting an impression of the Tribunal’s work.