Like proverbial buses, it seems you can wait ages for a landmark international justice case, and then four come along at the same time. By any standards, this has been a remarkable week for international justice. On Thursday Radovan Karadžić was convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for his role in genocide and other atrocities committed during the Balkans war. Whilst this story may have grabbed the front page headlines, it was sandwiched between three other historic international legal milestones. Monday’s conviction of former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo was not only was it …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
