In recent years, the world community has demonstrated a renewed
commitment to the pursuit of international criminal justice. In
1993, the United Nations established two ad hoc international
tribunals to try those responsible for genocide and crimes against
humanity in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Ten years later, the
International Criminal Court began its operations and is developing
prosecutions in its first two cases (Congo and Uganda). Meanwhile,
national and hybrid war crimes tribunals have been established in
Sierra Leone, Kosovo, Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, East Timor, Indonesia, Iraq, and Cambodia. Thousands
of people have given testimony before these courts. Most have
witnessed war crimes, including mass killings, torture, rape,
inhumane imprisonment, forced expulsion, and the destruction of
homes and villages. For many, testifying in a war crimes trial
requires great courage, especially as they are well aware that war
criminals still walk the streets of their villages and towns. Yet
despite these risks, little attention has been paid to the fate of
witnesses of mass atrocity. Nor do we know much about their
experiences testifying before an international tribunal or the
effect of such testimony on their return to their postwar
communities. The first study of victims and witnesses who have
testified before an international war crimes tribunal, The
Witnesses examines the opinions and attitudes of eighty-seven
individuals-Bosnians, Muslims, Serbs, and Croats-who have appeared
before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia.
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