The road from Gaza to The Hague runs through Washington, thanks to those Balkan ghosts.
— or as the ICC revealingly puts it, “the Situation in the State of Palestine.” The court seeks the arrest of Hamas leadership for a long list of war crimes, but the big news is that the ICC also wants to place Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in the dock. The prosecutor says that there is credible evidence to believe they are guilty of murder, intentionally targeting civilians, as well as starving them.
However, the ICTY was Washington’s focus, with the full support of President Bill Clinton’s administration. The Hague’s legal efforts to arrest and prosecute Balkan war criminals served to underpin U.S. policy toward the ruins of Yugoslavia, justifying NATO’s intervention in the Bosnian war in 1995, then in the Kosovo war four years later.
The Srebrenica massacre of mid-July 1995, where Bosnian Serbs killed some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims, including many civilians, was an ICTY centerpiece resulting in numerous convictions. Down to its dissolution in 2017, the ICTY convicted 90 defendants on war crimes charges, with the vast majority of them, 62, being Serbs, while 18 were Croats and only five were Muslims. The court’s bias was an irritant from the start, and Serbs never viewed it as an impartial effort.
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