The Butcher's Trail: How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World's Most Successful Manhunt
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (531 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590518985 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Julian Borger is the diplomatic editor for The Guardian. He was also on the team awarded the 2013 Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) medal and the Paul Foot Special Investigation Award in the UK. . He covered the Bosnian War for the BBC andThe Guardian, and returned to the Balkans to report on the Kosovo conflict in 1999. He has also served as
Good Read but In Need of Re-write Eric E. Hasselberg What made this book interesting to me was that I had travelled thru the Balkans by motorcycle in June 2015 and visited many of the venues mentioned. I saw photos of Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic on the wall of a café in Gacko Republic of Srpska (Bosnia). It was akin to seeing a photo of Nazi wa. "A valuable account of events that have a huge bearing on society" according to Kevin. The Butcher’s Trail describes how, over a period of nearly two decades, war-crimes indictees were tracked down, apprehended, and transferred to The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. Julian Borger, who covered the conflict in the Western Balkans for the BB. Brilliant work!! This book is not only a painstakingly detailed account of the manhunt for some of the worst war criminals in modern history, but it is at the same time a thrilling, fascinating read. Most importantly, it provides a powerful, historically accurate, record of the complicity and complacency of the internatio
Based on interviews with former special forces soldiers, intelligence officials, and investigators from a dozen countries--most speaking about their involvement for the first time--this book reconstructs a fourteen-year manhunt carried out almost entirely in secret.Indicting the worst war criminals that Europe had known since the Nazi era, the ICTY ultimately accounted for all 161 suspects on its wanted list, a feat never before achieved in political and military history.. Borger recounts how Ratko Mladi--now on trial in The Hague--and recently convicted Radovan Karadi were finally tracked dow
and its allies grappling with which of their core values to adhere to against the asymmetric threat of transnational terrorism, the hope of future international justice for war crimes may seem distant. set up an international tribunal to investigate and indict some 161 people it found most responsible. " PBS NewsHour""Gripping." " The Independent" "Well researchedtimely." " The Wall Street Journal " What Julian Borger has achieved in this superb account of the tribunal s manhunt is much more than a litany of these crimes. The challenge was to actually apprehend them. Eri