Travesty The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the Corruption

by Laughland, John; Clark, Ramsey

• ISBN13: 9780745326351
• ISBN10: 0745326358
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-20
• Publisher: Pluto Press

Summary

Slobodan Milosevic died in prison in 2006 during a four-year marathon trial at The Hague for war crimes. John Laughland was one of the last Western journalists to meet him. He followed the trial from the beginning and wrote extensively on it in the Guardian and The Spectator, challenging the legitimacy of the Yugoslav Tribunal and the hypocrisy of 'international justice'.

Author Biography

John Laughland is the author of three previous books: The Death of Politics (1994), The Tainted Source (1997) and Le tribunal penal international (2003). He is currently working on A History of Political Trials from Charles I to Saddam Hussein and on a book about the 19th century German philosopher, Schelling, while his Israel on Israel (co-edited with Michel Korinman) is due out this autumn. He is a regular contributor to the Spectator, the Guardian and the Mail on Sunday.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
'A little bombing to see reason'	p. 7
The New World Order	p. 33
Inverting Nuremberg	p. 53
'A false tribunal'	p. 69
Potemkin Justice	p. 88
'Just convict everyone'	p. 110
'Greater Serbia'	p. 125
Witnesses for the Prosecution	p. 150
Trial in absentia	p. 176
Death in The Hague	p. 198
Index	p. 205
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