The Butcher's Trail: How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World's Most Successful Manhunt

! Read ! The Butchers Trail: How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the Worlds Most Successful Manhunt by Julian Borger ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Butchers Trail: How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the Worlds Most Successful Manhunt Borger recounts how Ratko Mladi--now on trial in The Hague--and recently convicted Radovan Karadi were finally tracked down, and describes the intrigue behind the arrest of Slobodan Miloševi, the Yugoslav president who became the first head of state to stand before an international tribunal for crimes perpetrated in a time of war. Now updated and in paperback, the gripping story of how--and against what odds--the perpetrators of Balkan genocide were subjected to the most successful man

Author	:	Julian Borger
Rating	:	4.94 (946 Votes)
Asin	:	1590518985
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	1 Pages
Publish Date	:	2016-11-09
Language	:	English

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Good Read but In Need of Re-write What made this book interesting to me was that I had travelled thru the Balkans by motorcycle in June 2015 and visited many of the venues mentioned. I saw photos of Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic on the wall of a café in Gacko Republic of Srpska (Bosnia). It was akin to seeing a photo of Nazi war criminals on the wall of a bar in Bavaria. Quite disturbing. The book could use some reorganization as it jumped around quite a bit and at times seemed to assume the reader was already up to speed on important factual background. I am giving it 3 stars because I did like reading it, but it could use an upda. "A valuable account of events that have a huge bearing on society" according to Kevin. The Butcher’s Trail describes how, over a period of nearly two decades, war-crimes indictees were tracked down, apprehended, and transferred to The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. Julian Borger, who covered the conflict in the Western Balkans for the BBC and The Guardian, tells the story with authority and insight.Borger describes how Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte and her predecessor Louise Arbour shamed and cajoled governments into cooperating with the ICTY, noting that while Biljana Plavsic, a former leader of the Bosnian Serbs, was the only female ind. Brilliant work!! This book is not only a painstakingly detailed account of the manhunt for some of the worst war criminals in modern history, but it is at the same time a thrilling, fascinating read. Most importantly, it provides a powerful, historically accurate, record of the complicity and complacency of the international community concerning the war crimes committed in Bosnia. Julian Borger speaks candidly of the failures along the way, including a wide network of shameless protection of war criminals by the Serbian army and secret police, as well as outright disregard for international indictments in the aftermath of the

Borger recounts how Ratko Mladi--now on trial in The Hague--and recently convicted Radovan Karadi were finally tracked down, and describes the intrigue behind the arrest of Slobodan Miloševi, the Yugoslav president who became the first head of state to stand before an international tribunal for crimes perpetrated in a time of war. Now updated and in paperback, the gripping story of how--and against what odds--the perpetrators of Balkan genocide were subjected to the most successful manhunt in history.Written with a thrilling narrative pull, The Butcher's Trail chronicles the pursuit and capture of the Balkan war criminals indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Based on interviews with former special forces soldiers, intelligence officials, and investigators from a dozen countries--most

Eric Schlosser, author of"Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus accident, and the Illusion of Safety" Julian Borger reveals in riveting new detail exactly how a daring team secretly tracked down some of the worst war criminals of our time, and in doing, he shows us what it takes for justice to win. He even provides close readings of Karadi s doggerel poetry art of the same caliber as Hitler s watercolors for indications of inner tumult and hints of future crimes."" "Daily Beast "Asimultaneously thrilling and horrifying read."" Signature" """A well-researched, sobering chroniclea necessary and admirable achievement."" Washington Independent Review of Books ""The Butcher s

He was also on the team awarded the 2013 Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) medal and the Paul Foot Special Investigation Award in the UK. Borger was part of theGuardian team that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism for its coverage of the Snowden files on mass surveillance. . Julian Borger is the diplomatic editor for The Guardian. He covered the Bosnian War for the BBC andThe Guardia