Pettigrew: After The Hague verdict, victims can seek compensation from Serbia

The verdict of the Appeals Chamber of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunal (IRMCT) in the conviction of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, who were high-ranking members of the State Security Service of Serbia, is extremely significant because it confirms that they, together with other leaders, were part of a joint criminal enterprise undertaking with a plan and common intention to forcibly and permanently remove non-Serbs from the territory of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, by committing the crime of persecution, murder, as well as deportation, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Connecticut and a member of the Board of Directors of the Program for the Study of Genocide at Yale University David Pettigrew, told Fena on Monday. Pročitaj više