Dimensions
143 x 223 x 27mm
The International Criminal Court, the world's first truly global war crimes court, began work formally on 1 July 2002, after a long battle to see how it established. 'Judgement Day' tells for the first time the remarkable inside story of how it was forced into being by its charismatic and determined architects and the lengths to which its prosecutors went to indict its most famous defendant: Slobodan Milosevic.
Chris Stephen has remarkable access to the prosecution and defence lawyers, politicians and court officials in The Hague to show how the world's first head of state was brought to international account. At the heart of the story is the brooding, brutal, swaggering figure of Slobodan Milosevic himself, apparently conducting his own defence but in fact making full use of the Serbian security apparatus via telephone links to Belgrade. Culminating in the verdict against Milosevic - and a guilty verdict is by no means assured - 'Judgement Day' is a gripping and authoritative account of the most important international trial since Nuremberg.
