The Investigator Demons of the Balkan War / Vladimír Dzuro ; foreword by Carla Del Ponte, chief prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dzuro, Vladimír, 1961- author.

Contributor:

Del Ponte, Carla, writer of foreword.

Standardized Title:

Vyšetřovatel. English

Language:

Czech

English

Subjects (All):

Detectives--Czech Republic.

Detectives.

War crimes investigation.

War criminals--Trials, litigation, etc.

War criminals.

Trials (Crimes against humanity)--Netherlands--Hague.

Trials (Crimes against humanity).

War crime trials--Netherlands--Hague.

War crime trials.

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995--Atrocities.

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : Potomac Books, An imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2019]

Summary:

The war that broke out in the former Yugoslavia at the end of the twentieth century unleashed unspeakable acts of violence committed against defenseless civilians, including a grizzly mass murder at an Ovčara pig farm in 1991. An international tribunal was set up to try the perpetrators of crimes such as this, and one of the accused was Slavko Dokmanović, who at the time was the mayor of a local town. Vladimír Dzuro, a criminal detective from Prague, was one of the investigators charged with discovering what happened on that horrific night at Ovčara. The story Dzuro presents here, drawn from his daily notes, is devastating. It was a time of brutal torture, random killings, and the disappearance of innocent people. Dzuro provides a gripping account of how he and a handful of other investigators picked up the barest of leads that eventually led them to the gravesite where they exhumed the bodies. They were able to track down Dokmanović, only to find that taking him into custody was a different story altogether. The politics that led to the war hindered justice once it ended. Without any thoughts of risk to their own personal safety, Dzuro and his colleagues were determined to bring Dokmanović to justice. In addition to the story of the pursuit and arrest of Dokmanović, The Investigator provides a realistic picture of the war crime investigations that led to the successful prosecution of a number of war criminals. Visit warcrimeinvestigator.com for more information or watch a book trailer.

Contents:

From Interpol to the Hague

Operation little flower

The tribulations of Slavko Dokmanovi?

How a police officer, a dentist, and a warehouseman became the presidents of the Republic of Serbian Krajina

The case of Dubrovnik

Everything is controlled from Belgrade

Carla del Ponte visits eastern Slavonia

The international tribunal in the eyes of a Czech prosecutor

The reckoning

Final word

Acknowledgments

Appendix 1: List of people

Appendix 2: List of institutions

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-341) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-64012-227-3

1-64012-229-X

OCLC:

1121653139