CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Jovanovic, Jelena |
|---|---|
| Title | Between Allies and Hostile Witnesses Testimony from High-Level Insiders in the Milosevic case |
| Summary | This thesis deals with testimonies from insiders in high-profile war crimes trials, with the particular focus on the Slobodan Milosevic trial before the International Criminal Tribunal from the former Yugoslavia. The first international tribunal after the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg achieved its peak with the Milosevic case. Due to importance of the case and grand expectations of it the prosecution built huge and hardly-manageable case. Therefore, over two years, from February 2002 to February 2004, 296 witnesses called by the prosecution appeared in the courtroom of the ICTY. In other to offer a comprehensive analyses of the high-profile war crimes trials’ experience with testimonies from high-ranking insider, I examined witness deployment in the prosecution’s case in the Milosevic trial. The main purpose of such an analysis is to establish to what extent it depended on testimonies from insiders. Subsequently, the study deals with the testimonies of five high-level insiders, dividing them into two groups, in order to show how these individuals performed that role in the ICTY courtroom. In the light of the further cases against high-ranking officials, and heads of states and activities of International Criminal court the lesson that the Milosevic trial provides regarding testimony from insiders could be very valuable for further attempts to prosecute high ranking political leaders. |
| Supervisor | Petrovic, Vladimir; Siefert, Marsha |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/jovanovic_jelena.pdf |
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