Lawfare Archive: Jessica Stern on Radovan Karadzic
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🗓️ 20 June 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
From the Lawfare Archive, February 19, 2020: Jessica Stern, who served on the National Security Council during the Clinton administration, has a remarkable skill: she interviews really bad people, and she writes about them in really interesting ways. She spent quite a bit of time interviewing Bosnian-Serb war criminal Radovan Karadzic, who is serving a life sentence at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague for genocide in connection with the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s. Their conversations led to the publication of the book, "My War Criminal: Personal Encounters with an Architect of Genocide," which triggered a remarkable outpouring of rage at Jessica Stern. Benjamin Wittes spoke with Jessica recently about the book, the controversy, and her general approach to talking to evil men.
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| 0:34.0 | We have been going five times a week for about a year now. |
| 0:38.0 | We've decided that so many of you folks are listening to back episodes, |
| 0:44.0 | including way back episodes of the LawFair podcast, |
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| 0:52.0 | and play back episodes that are suddenly of contemporary relevance. |
| 0:58.0 | We're calling this the LawFair archive. |
| 1:02.0 | We hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:04.0 | This is the LawFair Archive. |
| 1:10.0 | Hello, this is LawFair intern Cristiano Wayne with the podcast, |
| 1:22.0 | the LawFair Archives for June 20, 2021. |
| 1:26.0 | Last week, a United Nations court denied the final appeal of Bosnian-Serve General Rat Comlaudege, |
| 1:32.0 | confirming that he will serve out a life sentence for genocide and crimes against humanity during the Bosnian War. |
| 1:38.0 | He was the last outstanding case from the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, |
| 1:42.0 | and signals the end of the United Nations historic efforts to hold the perpetrators of atrocities during that conflict accountable for their actions. |
| 1:50.0 | For today's episode from the archives, I chose to go back to February 2020. |
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