How prosecutors select war crimes suspects

“Over the years you see an increase in ‘important’ defendants, indicted for more serious crimes: the higher you climb up the power hierarchy, the more serious the crimes in the indictments are.”

- Dr. Frederiek de Vlaming, who has studied the careers of three international prosecutors of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

(See the interview by Thijs Bouwknegt of Radio Netherlands Worldwide here)

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