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As a war crimes prosecutor confronts brutal truths, she battles personal demons and systemic corruption to seek justice.
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While the first hearings of the International Criminal Tribunal began in 1995 in The Hague, Slobodan Milosevic, the main architect of the conflict, was still in power in Serbia. He was not arrested until 2000, after new acts of violence against Kosovo Albanians. His trial for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide will prove to be extraordinary. The former nationalist president, whose insolence in the face of a court whose legitimacy he contested, died before the end of the trial. The warlord Ratko Mladic and the former president of the Bosnian Serb Republic Radovan Karadzic are sentenced to life imprisonment after several years on the run.
Cities under siege, families displaced, prisoners parked in concentration camps: in 1993, while the conflict in the former Yugoslavia had been raging for two years, world public opinion became aware of the atrocities committed. The United Nations set up a special tribunal in The Hague to judge war crimes committed by the belligerents, a first since the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials. There was talk of ethnic cleansing by the Serbian army, while the Bosnian side itself was guilty of serious crimes. The Blue Helmets dispatched to the area were unable to prevent the massacre of several thousand men in Srebrenica in 1995. This first part looks back at the chronology of the Bosnian war and the beginnings of a long trial.