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If any of you still believe that waiting for or trying to talk rational sense into hardcore #fascists will help them to change their minds & be better human beings - I suggest you watch the #NurembergTrials of #Hitler's #GermanNazis & #Milosevic #WarCrimes trial in #ICTY.

There was no repentance. There was open disgust, arrogance & disrespect of international criminal court & court representatives by those genocidal defendants.

They went to their graves, proud of their evils. Unrepentant.

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https://twitter.com/Law4Palestine/status/1713553509679866178
https://en.rattibha.com/thread/1713553509679866178

1/9 #Israel's official call to move over 1.1 million people from North #GazaStrip to the South raises concerns of a broader plan for Palestinian deportation to +.
constitutes a +
rejects it in all its forms #L4Pthreads 🧵

2/9: Art. 49(1) of 4th #GC states that the individual or mass displacement of populations from occupied territories to another country is prohibited “regardless of their motive.” The prohibition also extends to #ForcibleTransfer within an occupied territory -Art. 85(4)(a) of #API
3/9: The only exception to the prohibition within an occupied territory is the security of civilians &for “imperative military reasons,” with an obligation to ensure that the displaced civilians receive proper shelter, hygiene, health, safety & nutrition (Article 17 of #APII).
4/9: An evacuation undertaken in an atmosphere of terror implies that #ForcibleTransfer was only done as part of an organized policy to displace the people from the area &not as a form of civilian protection or for military necessity as found by the Tribunal in the #Krstic Case.
5/9: The #ICTY in #NaletillicandMatrinivic found that a state shelling, besieging and preventing humanitarian aid cannot use military necessity to forcibly transfer civilians. Accordingly, #Israel will likely be unable to use military necessity to justify depopulating Gaza.
6/9: Israel is not taking any measures to ensure that the forcibly transferred people are safe or are provided with necessities. It continues to bomb #civilians, even during their #evacuation, while also cutting off water and food supply to entire #Gaza.
7/9: Calling for the deportation of Palestinians from the #GazaStrip to #Egypt violates international law. By doing so, #Israel is engaging in the systematic practice of #EthnicCleansing—a key element of its proposed #genocide in Gaza.
8/9: #ForcibleTransfer is a grave breach of the #GC, which means that all #states are under an obligation to search for and prosecute individuals who are alleged to have committed such acts regardless of their nationality
9/9: Several other legal instruments address the illegality of #ForcibleTransfer including country specific material. It can be noted that Israel barely implements any #IL on this matter in its national legal system.
For more info: https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en

Exchange between accused, Slobodan Praljak, and witness, Professor Farhudin Rizvanbegović, who had been detained at Dretelj camp and Ljubuški prison in 1993.

Accused: Professor, just give me a yes or no. Did you hear of him?
Witness: Please don't act that way.
Acc: You are taking away from my time. Did you hear of him?
Wit: You took away half of my life, man.

Prlić et al, at ICTY, 23 May 2006, testimony, p. 2319.

#Law#ICTY#Testimony
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Today's announcement, that the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants against Putin & co-conspiring Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova ("Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Office of the President of the Russian Federation") was an important signal, that Putin's regime will not be safe from justice & accountability outside his criminal cosmos of fellow-dictatorial thugs.

While the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia will show the way, so that "politicians and senior military officers, judgment after judgment confirmed, will no longer escape with impunity but be held responsible for their actions, even in wartime."

#RuleOfLaw #JusticeMatters #AccountabilityMatters #ICC #ICJ #ICTY #PutinTribunal #PutinsWar #WarOfAggression #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Genocide #CrimesAgainstPeace #StandWithHumanity #StandWithUkraine
theguardian.com/law/2017/dec/2

The GuardianYugoslavia tribunal closes, leaving a powerful legacy of war crimes justiceBy Owen Bowcott

I wrote a review of Iva Vukušić's "Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence" here.

academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-a

Not open access, but some key points:
*It's excellent - buy it!
*It's very relevant to criminology
*Valuable analysis of differences between paramilitary units (professional/non-professional)
*We can do more with ICTY sources

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So, I gave it just 1 element:

Analyse the following statement of guilt from Biljana Plavsic in terms of gender [full statement given]

Even with the full text and a direct prompt, it still falls well short.

So - complex assessment briefs with multiple elements requiring original thinking and the shift from knowledge to application seem safe... for now.