Paix et châtiment: Les guerres secrètes de la politique et de la justice internationales

by Florence Hartmann

319 pages, Paperback

First published September 7, 2007

About the author

Florence Hartmann is a French journalist and author. During the 1990s she was a correspondent in the Balkans for the French newspaper Le Monde. In 1999 she published her first book, Milosevic, la diagonale du fou (Milosevic, the opposite of crazy), reissued by Gallimard in 2002. From October 2000 until October 2006 she was official spokesperson and Balkan adviser to Carla Del Ponte, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.

On 19 July 2011, the Appeals Chamber of the ICTY upheld the first instance decision to convict Hartmann of contempt of court for the section of text called Vital genocide documents concealed in her book,Paix et Châtiment, les guerres secrètes de la politique et de la justice internationales, which included the "legal reasoning" of two confidential appellate rulings of the UN Tribunal approving black-outs and exclusions from critical historical war documents showing Serbia's involvement in the Bosnian war of the 1990s. She was fined €7,000 (£6,100). The fine was later converted into a seven-day prison sentence, for which the ICTY issued an arrest warrant.In December 2011, France refused to extradite her.

Reviews

[Emir · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am reading the Bosnian translation. Shame this book has not been translated into English yet.
English name: Peace and Punishement
Bosnian name: Mir i Kazna

[Goran · Rating 2 out of 5]

Florence Hartmann is journalist and was spokeperson of ICTY.
But don't let that fool you. When it is needed, she is also investigator, lawyer, persecutor, judge... she just knows it all.
When ie persecutors of ICTY disagree with Hartmann - she always knows better.
When ICTY makes a decision - Hartmann knows better.
Hartmann always knows better.
According to her, ICTY was full of spies and agents from beggining, but it does not stop it from being great legal achievment and working almost perfectly, just stoped by politicians.
Functioning of a court, war crimes processing, except 1 or 2, you will not read anything on it here.
War crimes - just those done by Serbs ofc, ignoring all others.
By reading this book you will learn, well, next to nothing.
Dont waste time.

[Muamer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Odlična knjiga ali joj ipak dajem četiri zvjezdice. Zašto? Zbog konstatnog pisanja musliman sa velikim M i zbog navoda kako smo se tek od 1995. godine počeli izjašnjavati kao Bošnjaci.