March 13, 2010

Max Blumenthal on N.Y. 'Lawfare Project' conference

Blumenthal went to this seven-hour conference, held Thursday by the 'Lawfare Project' in New York, and has written a great blog post about it at Mondoweiss. The Lawfare Project has...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 05:11 PM | Fulltext link (11 comments)

September 18, 2009

Gaza police and noncombatant immunity

Phil Weiss, who's read more of the Goldstone report than I have at this point, zeroes in on the paragraphs Goldstone and Co wrote about the IDF's killings of police...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 03:15 PM | Fulltext link (46 comments)

September 17, 2009

Gaza, the Obama administration, and the present

I was reading this account from Reuters of the way that Obama's ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, today tried to sideline and bury the important report of the Goldstone...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:51 PM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

April 01, 2009

Thakur on the ICC, Darfur, and Bashir

When I blogged about the ICC's missteps on Darfur yesterday I had not yet seen this excellently argued recent article by Ramesh Thakur. Thakur, who for a long time was...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:47 AM | Fulltext link (6 comments)

March 31, 2009

De Waal & Flint's great new article on ICC-Darfur

Longtime readers of JWN are aware that I have long been intensely skeptical about the value of "international" war-crimes courts, in general. Some of my concerns were spelled out in...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:52 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

March 16, 2009

Cassese, Goldstone, Ntsebeza, Robinson call for international investigation of Gaza atrocities

A very high-octane group of 16 prosecutors and judges associated with various recent international atrocity investigations and prosecutions has now called for for a full international investigation into alleged abuses...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:45 PM | Fulltext link (10 comments)

December 14, 2008

Moreno-Ocampo and the future of the ICC

The International Criminal Court started its work in 2002 with great fanfare and expectations. The hopes of its many supporters around the world (but concentrated particularly in rich western countries)...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 01:06 AM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

November 17, 2008

Prunier on Laurent Nkunda and the DRC crisis

The veteran French expert on central Africa Gerard Prunier has an excellent piece on Open Democracy today that pulls together a lot of the essential political background to the tragically...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 04:58 PM | Fulltext link (17 comments)

November 07, 2008

'China Hand' on extrajudicial killings

The excellent (though sporadic) blogger China Hand has a great new post today tracking the degree to which extensive use of extra-judicial killings has been incorporated into the "standard operating...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:14 PM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

October 28, 2008

On extra-judicial executions

Since when is it okay for a state (or an individual) to set out to kill a person based solely on accusations against him that have never been publicized and...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 04:50 PM | Fulltext link (23 comments)

August 08, 2008

Progress in untying the ICC-Northern Uganda knot?

Are Uganda's talented people about to unlock the riddle of "peace versus justice" that has confounded so many other peoples around the world in recent times? As long-time JWN readers...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:13 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

June 30, 2008

ICC showboat Moreno-Ocampo, and Darfur

What is the ICC's showboating Chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo up to regarding Darfur? I admit I haven't been watching either the ICC or the Darfur situation quite closely enough in...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:30 PM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

March 15, 2008

A journalistic war-dog reflects

Todd Pitman, whose name has bylined many of AP's stories out of Iraq over the past few years, has written a beautiful and reflective piece (also here) about the death-by-fire...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 05:30 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

February 23, 2008

Italian FM describes Mughniyeh killing as "terror"

Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema has expressed himself foursquare against all use of extra-judicial executions (EJE's). He did this in an interview with Gigi Riva of L'Espresso that was published...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 04:35 PM | Fulltext link (27 comments)

February 17, 2008

Mughniyeh, assassinations, and their "normalization"

We should be clear about the moral quality of the blood-drenched career of Imad Mughniyeh, the high-level Hizbullah security operative who was assassinated in Damascus on February 12, apparently by...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:04 PM | Fulltext link (21 comments)

December 30, 2007

Bhutto, Saddam, Hariri: The travails of international criminal "justice"

I want to second the judgment that Pat Lang expressed over at his blog today, to the effect that there is no prospect of any independent international investigation into Benazir's...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 03:44 PM | Fulltext link (6 comments)

August 25, 2007

Bush vs. JAG (w/ help from TJ)

Today's Boston Globe reported startling dissent at the top ranks of America's military lawyers toward the Bush Administration's recent rule-making on CIA interrogations of prisoners. Read the whole report here....
Posted by Scott Harrop at 11:11 PM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

July 05, 2007

CSM, Charles Taylor, LRA, etc

And so, under the new order at the Christian Science Monitor, I do have a new column "occasional contribution" in today's paper. (It is also here.) It's on the Charles...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:24 PM | Fulltext link (7 comments)

May 04, 2007

Northern Uganda: A second-stage peace accord

Great news from Juba, Southern Sudan, where on May 2nd negotiators from the Government of Uganda and the once violently oppositionist group the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) signed an agreement...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 04:38 PM | Fulltext link (13 comments)

February 28, 2007

The terrible odyssey of Marwan Jabour

Human Rights Watch and the WaPo have both done ground-breaking work on the case of Marwan Jabour, a Palestinian whom the US accused of funding and helping Al-Qaeda operatives and...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 05:18 AM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

February 17, 2007

Testimony from an Abu Ghraib "hooded man"

The iconic "hooded man" in those shocking pictures from Abu Ghraib was also a man, not just an icon; and at least one of the men subjected to that form...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 05:38 AM | Fulltext link (19 comments)

August 18, 2006

CSM column on peace versus justice in Uganda

The CSM yesterday published the first of two columns I'm writing for them about the competition between the claims of "peace" and of "justice" in northern Uganda. It includes some...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:02 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

July 22, 2006

Notes from Uganda, Part 1

Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:46 AM | Fulltext link (8 comments)

March 21, 2006

The international courts discussion grows

Well, my article in Foreign Policy on international war-crimes courts has been getting a gratifying amount of attention. My intention in publishing it was, after all, to open up the...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:27 PM | Fulltext link (5 comments)

March 20, 2006

ICC "gets" its first man

I just wrote a post over at Transitional Justice Forum about the ICC get its hands on its first indictee. He is Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, of the Democratic Republic of...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:59 PM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

March 12, 2006

Milosevic's death

I find two aspects of Milosevic's death in UN custody yesterday quite interesting. The first is what his death actually tells us about the value of using criminal prosecutions to...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 03:01 PM | Fulltext link (35 comments)

February 16, 2006

For Saddam trial afficianados

I put up a post at Transitional Justice Forum today titled "Haiti, Iraq, and political transition". It explores some of the "justice" issues involved in the very messy and risk-freighted...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:35 PM | Fulltext link (20 comments)

January 29, 2006

Saddam trial in shambles

The US occupation forces' much-hyped effort to put Saddam Hussein and his henchmen on trial in Iraq is now in complete shambles. On January 15, the former Chief Judge, Rizgar...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:40 PM | Fulltext link (10 comments)

January 11, 2006

Out of Egypt? US 'black' detainees in Europe

Why was the Egyptian Foreign Minister telling his Ambassador in London about the identity of the countries in eastern Europe where US government agencies were holding and interrogating, or planning...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:51 PM | Fulltext link (6 comments)

December 22, 2005

Legality and the Saddam trial

Throughout many long portions of its life, Saddam Hussein's regime had a record as a rights abuser and perpetrator of atrocities equaled by few other governments in the world. Under...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:29 PM | Fulltext link (8 comments)

Saddam trial: Iran's opening bid

So now, Teheran has started making a big push to have its many, very serious grievances against Saddam put onto the docket of the Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST). The report...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:34 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

December 09, 2005

Perils of the Inquisition

The New York Times's Douglas Jehl has an important piece in today's paper that establishes a direct link between the ongoing global furore over the Bush administration's transnational transportation and...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:48 AM | Fulltext link (22 comments)

November 28, 2005

White Phosphorus round-up

The BBC website has quite a good round-up on the WP issue. It was originally posted on November 16, and updated November 22. Crucially, the writer there quotes Peter Kaiser,...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:49 PM | Fulltext link (7 comments)

November 10, 2005

Saddam trial: more questions

On Tuesday, Adil Mohammad Abbas Zubeidi, one of the defense lawyers working at the Iraqi Special tribunal (IST) that's trying Saddam Hussein and eight of his top henchmen, was gunned...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:07 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

November 04, 2005

'Old' CIA hand's plea for the Geneva Conventions

The NYT had a good op-ed in today in which Milt Bearden, a 30-year veteran of the CIA's Directorate of Operations, made an eloquent plea for the US Supreme Court...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:44 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

October 19, 2005

War crimes trials: procedures or politics?

The war-crimes trial of Saddam Hussein and seven other co-defendants opened briefly today (see also here ), and was adjourned after just 2 hours and 11 minutes of court...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:07 AM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

October 09, 2005

Netherlands still hosts NTFU site, despite Wilson arrest

I just checked, and the NTFU website is still up and operating today, even though its owner, Chris Wilson, was arrested yesterday. I think his servers are in the Netherlands....
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:05 AM | Fulltext link (14 comments)

October 08, 2005

NTFU website owner arrested

Chris Wilson, the Florida man who owns and runs the NTFU body-part pornsite, was arrested yesterday by the police in Polk County, Florida. (That site was the one that posted...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:02 PM | Fulltext link (5 comments)

September 29, 2005

Investigations of abuse: porn-site and ACLU

The US military has reportedly closed the disciplinary/criminal investigation that it claimed it had launched into the involvement of US military personnel with the the body-part porn website, NTFU. Incredibly...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:13 PM | Fulltext link (9 comments)

September 19, 2005

What causes the perpetration of atrocities?

When most people in the west think about people who perpetrate atrocities, they shift immediately (if they were not already in it) into "judgment and denunciation mode"; and for...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 03:56 PM | Fulltext link (15 comments)

August 24, 2005

Body part porn and war

This morning, I asked if it was true that US service members are now trading grotesque pictures of Iraqis and Afghans who have been or are being terribly abused onto...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:23 PM | Fulltext link (18 comments)

August 13, 2005

Contract employees at Gitmo

Today I was cruising the always informative portion of the American Civil Liberty Union's website where the ACLU has been posting the documents re US torture that it has painstakingly...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:37 PM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

Sartre speaks from beyond the grave

This afternoon I walked to the library in 94-degree heat to pick up some books I've been wanting to read for a while. On the way home, I already nearly...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 05:30 PM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

June 06, 2005

The politicized charge-sheet

So the Iraqi Special Tribunal is going to try Saddam for invading Kuwait in 1990-- but not for invading Iran in 1980? This, despite the fact that the human carnage...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 07:49 PM | Fulltext link (8 comments)

December 21, 2004

What the FBI saw at GITMO (and Abu Ghraib)

I wrote my check to the American Civil Liberties Union last week. They've been doing a great job pursuing the government's records re the tortures of detainees. And yesterday they...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:29 AM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

December 15, 2004

Interrogations that trouble even the FBI

Tonight I got some time browse around in the collection of documents relating to US interrogations of detainees around the world that the American Civil Liberties Union has worked hard...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:43 PM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

December 10, 2004

Abusing "psychiatry"

Many new stories have come out recently documenting multiple instances of serious mistreatment of detainees by US military personnel both in months considerably before the incidents that happened at Abu...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:41 PM | Fulltext link (19 comments)

'Cleaning up' in Fallujah

In connection with military operations, there are two distinct kinds of "cleaning up" that go on. One is the "mopping up" operations that the advancing armies themselves do to secure...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:32 AM | Fulltext link (10 comments)

November 29, 2004

Fallujah war crimes evidence

The Boston Globe's Anne Barnard was embedded with a task force from the Army's 1st Infantry Division throughout much of the battle of Fallujah. She had an account of her...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 07:17 AM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

November 25, 2004

Anguish in ICRC over Iraq

The Swiss daily Le Temps yesterday (11/24) had an article (purchase reqd) about the dilemmas the International Committee of the Red Cross has been facing in Iraq. The piece is...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:39 AM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

November 22, 2004

Yet more on Kevin Sites

Kevin has written an open letter to the Marines in the unit he was working with Fallujah. Here is an excerpt:...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:50 AM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

November 20, 2004

Fallujah, Grozny, Jenin...

The International Committee for the Red Cross, which is the global guarantor and depository for the laws of war, yesterday issued another of its strong statements about the actions of...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:53 AM | Fulltext link (6 comments)

November 16, 2004

Fallujah war crimes

I want to write three things in this post: (1) A question: If a Marines unit with an embedded press photographer traveling with it acts in the way described by...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:57 AM | Fulltext link (44 comments)

November 10, 2004

Gitmo: significant victory for human rights

With all the continuing, terrible news about Iraq it was good to hear of one small but significant achievement for the global human rights movement. Namely, Monday's decision by Judge...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:38 AM | Fulltext link (20 comments)

October 27, 2004

More on jurisdiction-free detention zones

Further to this recent JWN post on JFDZ's, today I found a really excellent report that Human Rights First issued in June on the topic. So far I've only been...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:34 AM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

October 25, 2004

Jurisdiction-free detention zones: end them!

Today (Monday) the NYT ran the second of the two excellent pieces in which Tim Golden has been tracking the evolution of the Bush administration's policies regarding "enemy combatants". Today's...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:24 AM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

October 21, 2004

Whatever became of-- ?

... the International Criminal Court??? Back on July 1, 2002, the historic Rome Treaty came into force, and the ICC-- dream of so many in the international human rights movement--...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 12:57 PM | Fulltext link (8 comments)

September 06, 2004

Trial news: Saddam & Slobo

There were two piece in today's Iraqi Press Monitor related to the plans to try Saddam Hussein. One, from the independent daily Al-Sabah said this: "Iraq for All" news network...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:02 PM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

August 26, 2004

News from the gulag: Gitmo branch

There's lots happening in the United States' global detentions gulag. I haven't had a chance to blog about the Fay/Jones report yet. But there are some under-reported things that have...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:25 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

August 09, 2004

East Timor resists push for UN court

I hadn't seen this interesting story before. It's on Reuters Alertnet today, and it tells how Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor has urged his country's friends in the...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:07 PM | Fulltext link (16 comments)

August 07, 2004

Responsibilities of states in conflicts

I just finished writing another chapter of my book on Africa. Doing so involved --among other things--poring over the reports of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in order to...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:06 PM | Fulltext link (34 comments)

July 30, 2004

Hague court Appeals Chamber releases Blaskic

The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has rapped one of the court's main Trial Chambers sharply over the knuckles by overturning 16 of the...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 01:27 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

July 20, 2004

Disposing of torture victims

If you're someone who does really bad torture, then there are times when you just can't let the "evidence" of what you have done to another human being survive--evidence, that...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:57 PM | Fulltext link (5 comments)

July 14, 2004

Slobo: 'fit' to be tried, contd...

Ana Uzelac of the Inst. for War & Peace Reporting had a good piece in their 9 July collection of stories about Slobo's trial in The Hague. She was exploring...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 04:05 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

July 11, 2004

The trials of trying Saddam, contd.

The NYT mag has two (or perhaps more) good pieces in it today. One is this consideration by Peter Landesman of some of the trials of trying Saddam Hussein. The...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:45 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

July 05, 2004

Meanwhile, in The Hague...

Meanwhile, in the ICTY branch of the venture of international "justice", the Serbs' wily and venal former President, Slobodan Milosevic, has been declared physically not "fit" to stand trial. (He...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:57 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

After atrocities: to seek remembrance or forgetting?

A notable piece by freelancer Vivenne Walt led the WaPo's "Outlook section yesterday. In it, Walt made the interesting observation that--despite what many news accounts in the West would have...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:25 PM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

July 04, 2004

Saddam: the 'banality of evil' revisited

The NYT's John F. Burns is a seasoned, very experienced foreign correspondent. I was just amazed, though, that in the piece he had in today's "Week in review" section, in...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 04:20 PM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

July 01, 2004

Saddam's trial-- Part 2

Alert users who use IE or AOL browsers have told me that the way our archived pages here on JWN have been redesigned, they couldn't scroll down to the bottom...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:57 AM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

June 30, 2004

Saddam's trial: precedents from Nuremberg

So. Thursday, Saddam will be arraigned, which should mean that we hear what the charges against him are. At that point he will join two other men who were once...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:20 PM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

June 22, 2004

How Hiiiiiigh can you go?

I admit I'm really enjoying seeing this whole war-crimes prosecution unfolding regarding the Abu Ghraib guards. As I predicted, the first bunch of indictees there who are actually (unlike Sivits)...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:45 PM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

June 18, 2004

Passaro indictment: why him?

You've probably read about David Passaro, the 38-year-old former contract employee for the CIA in Afghanistan who was charged Thursday with assaulting a prisoner during three days of interrogation there...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:38 AM | Fulltext link (9 comments)

June 17, 2004

And now, the disappeared

First, Rumsfeld confesses that it was indeed he who ordered the secret detention of an Iraqi terrorism suspect held for more than seven months near Baghdad without notifying the Red...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:52 PM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

June 16, 2004

Sen. Durbin's amendment to prohibit torture

I've been really happy to see that Senator Dick Durbin (Democrat from Illinois) has taken the lead in seeking to attach to this year's Defense Appropriations Bill an Amendment to...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:17 AM | Fulltext link (5 comments)

June 11, 2004

Rumsfeld, Bush, and 'command responsibility'

I was glad to see that Jonathan Tepperman, an editor at Foreign Affairs, raised the important issue of command responsibility regarding the tortures and other abuses in the US...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 04:04 PM | Fulltext link (7 comments)

June 08, 2004

Yes, on torture, leadership counts

Six days ago, I argued in my column in The Christian Science Monitor that if torture in US-run detention facilities around the world is to be stopped, then we need...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:28 PM | Fulltext link (13 comments)

June 05, 2004

How to train abusers

You want more clues as to how widespread physical abuse is in US-run detention facilities? Read about Specialist Sean Baker. Baker was a member of a military-police unit in the...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:10 AM | Fulltext link (6 comments)

May 31, 2004

Deaths of U.S.-held detainees

I am so glad the the NYT has started to try to be a real newspaper and is--at last-- doing some things that look like serious investigative reporting. One recent...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:51 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

May 30, 2004

Neighbo(u)rs killing neighbo(u)rs

My "day job" these days-- when I'm not posting stuff on the blog, tending my garden, or doing all the other things that can handily distract me from it-- is...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:55 PM | Fulltext link (11 comments)

May 28, 2004

Most Americans reject torture

In an interview May 22 , 2004, Harvard law prof Alan Dershowitz, a one-time liberal who has become a leading apologist for the use of torture in the war against...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:38 PM | Fulltext link (10 comments)

May 27, 2004

Tolerating torture: the slipperiest slope

What is the main reason why we need to press President Bush to make an unequivocal and verifiable commitment to ending the US government's use and toleration of torture? Because...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:10 PM | Fulltext link (5 comments)

May 25, 2004

So, has the torture stopped yet?

Why does it seem that no-one is asking the right question yet: Has the U.S. government definitively stopped all use of cruel, inhuman, or degrading punishment against people in U.S.-run...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:04 PM | Fulltext link (6 comments)

May 23, 2004

Has the torture actually stopped?

I have been thinking intensively about the effects the widespread pattern of tortures in Abu Ghraib and othe parts of the United States' global gulag has had on two distinct...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:24 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

May 17, 2004

Newsweek revelations

It looks like a good, well-reported copy of Newsweek is about to drop on our doorstep. (Actually, two of them, since for some reason we seem to have two concurrent...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:21 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

May 16, 2004

Yankeedoodle on Taguba

Yankeedoodle gives his own very detailed and clear analysis of the Taguba report in his Today in Iraq blog today. Check it out. It's toward the bottom of that post....
Posted by Helena Cobban at 05:04 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

May 12, 2004

Brutality in the gulag: what for?

This morning, Bill the spouse and I were speculating about what the point of all the officially sanctioned brutality in Abu Ghraib prison was. Once we accept that this was...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 05:13 PM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

On brutality in war

I've been thinking a lot about the nature of brutality recently. (Haven't we all?) Two recent instances have been the videotaped beheading of U.S. citizen Nick Berg in Iraq,...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 01:00 PM | Fulltext link (8 comments)

March 13, 2004

Escaping from atrocious violence

I have been cerebrating quite hard on writing the book on Violence and its Legacies. At least, that's how it feels to me. Last Wednesday, as part of that work,...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:18 PM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

March 10, 2004

Meta-tasks after atrocious violence

Today, I got back seriously into doing what I should have been doing for ALL of the past year: writing my book about post-atrocity policies with special reference to three...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:11 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

December 29, 2003

ICTY: Reconciliation, or its opposite?

With about 95% of the votes counted in Sunday's election in Serbia, the BBC is reporting that, "the SRS [Serbian Radical] party and the Socialist Party of Serbia, both headed...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:31 PM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

December 20, 2003

Article on the ICTR--the link!

I'm in Seoul airport on my way back to the States from Beijing. I just remembered that shortly before I left home 8-some days ago, the Boston Review finally got...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 03:07 AM | Fulltext link (5 comments)

December 10, 2003

War crimes trials in Iraq, contd.

Today's WaPo has a good piece by Rajiv Chandrasekaran that gives more information on the war-crimes court that the Iraqi Governing Council is setting up. At some stage--and, I hope,...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:07 AM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

December 09, 2003

ICTY: book by John Hagan

This is a quick note about a book I'd been eagerly looking forward to reading in connection with my "Violence and its Legacies" project, John Hagan's Justice in the Balkans:...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 12:33 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

War crimes trials--in Iraq and elsewhere

JWN readers probably saw the Dec 5 announcement from "Iraqi and American officials" that the Iraqi Governing Council would be establishing a tribunal to try cases of Crimes Against...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:34 AM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

November 18, 2003

ICTY case management

I see from a piece by Marlise Simons in the NYT today that Theodor Meron, the President of the Internatinal Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, and the prosecutors there, have...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 12:24 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

August 20, 2003

Tragedies, tragedies

I was stunned by yesterday's bombing of the UN HQ in Baghdad. Why the UN? Why Sergio Vieira de Mello, and so many other members of his team? I was...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:31 AM | Fulltext link (6 comments)

May 30, 2003

THE NEXUS BETWEEN GENOCIDE AND WAR:

THE NEXUS BETWEEN GENOCIDE AND WAR: Last night, I watched "The Pianist". Again. The first time was back at the beginning of the month, in Johannesburg. But last night, my...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:40 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)