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8 Nw. U. J. Int'l Hum. Rts. 269 (2009-2010)
Prosecuting Atrocity Crimes in National Courts: Looking Back on 2009 in Bosnia and Herzegovina

handle is hein.journals/jihr8 and id is 270 raw text is: Copyright 2010 by Northwestern University School of Law Volume 8, Issue 3 (Summer 2010) Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights PROSECUTING ATROCITY CRIMES IN NATIONAL COURTS: LOOKING BACK ON 2009 IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA David Schwendiman* t I. INTRODUCTION 1 This article grew out of the Atrocity Crimes Litigation Year- in-Review (2009) Conference convened by the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law on February 4, 2010. The objective of the Conference was to analyze whether and how various tribunals and courts dealing with atrocity crimes advanced international criminal and humanitarian law during 2009. What follows is a look back on a significant year The author is an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Utah. He served as an international prosecutor in the Special Department for War Crimes of the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina from May 2006 to December 2009. From November 2007 to December 2009, he was Deputy Chief Prosecutor and Head of the Special Department for War Crimes. The views expressed in this article are those of the author, for which he alone is responsible. They do not reflect nor represent the views of the United States Department of Justice, the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Utah, or the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina. I am grateful to my national colleagues in Bosnia and Herzegovina for accepting me and giving me the opportunity to lead them for a time as the Head of the Special Department for War Crimes. A more committed, professional, and courageous group of prosecutors would be hard to find anywhere in any prosecution service. They are not often well served by their national government and the institutions in which they work, but they persist and they get the job done in spite of it all. I admire and respect them. My comments are meant especially for the prosecutors in the Special Department for War Crimes and the judges in the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and prosecutors and judges in the Cantons and Districts who have already caught the vision of what needs to be done to make a meaningful difference in dealing with the nation's war crimes predicament. My hope is that they will take what I write seriously, use it, adapt it, or reject it in favor of something better, but not simply ignore it.

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