Dražen erdemović wikipedia
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Ayşan Sönmez, Paris 8 University – IFG, Ph.D. Candidate
Kitty Felde, an award-winning public radio journalist and playwright, wrote a play titled A Patch of Earth in which was based on the real-life story of Drazen Erdemovic, who was put on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in As a journalist, she followed his case and wrote the play based on the trial testimony from actual transcripts. The play tells the story of a twenty-four year-old Croat soldier who pled guilty to war crimes he committed during the Srebrenica massacre along with Serbian troops. As he was the first person to be sentenced by the International War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Felde focuses on the issue of justice in terms of both the legal systems that were put into place and the personal and ethical responsibilities of soldiers w
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Dražen Erdemović
Bosnian war criminal
Dražen Erdemović (born 25 November ) was a soldier who fought during the Bosnian War for the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) and was later sentenced for his participation in the Srebrenica massaker.
Background
[edit]Erdemović was born in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia to a Croat mother and a Serb father. During the Bosnian War, he was mobilized into the VRS 10th Sabotage Detachment, a part of the Army of Republika Srpska.[1][2][3]
Srebrenica
[edit]In July , Erdemović and his unit were sent to Branjevo military farm in the village of Pilica, north of Zvornik. After the VRS forces took over Srebrenica on 11 July, the Serbs began to send male Bosniaks to various locations for execution. One of those places was the farm in Pilica, 15 kilometers from the border with Serbia, where Erdemović and the 10th Sabotage Detachment were tasked with executing about 1, Bosniak men and boys between the ages o
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The introduction of plea bargaining at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) may have saved time and money, but has it served the interests of “truth”? After Rwanda last week, we continue our series on forgiveness with a look at the experience of the ICTY. Next week, we will turn our attention to South Africa.
In the mid- and late s, a hot debate divided human rights activists led by two charismatic men, South African Truth and Reconciliation kommission (TRC) chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Antonio Cassese. This debate pitted the supporters of truth commissions against those of international criminal justice. The former, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, argued the necessity for forgiveness as a key condition to avoid a bloodbath and then to build a new national identity and the conditions for people to live together. On the other han