BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Embassy of Czech Republic (Czechia) -- Event: Book Talk: The Investigator - Demons of the Balkan War (w/Vladimír Dzuro)

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Description of Pictures: Book Talk: The Investigator - Demons of the Balkan War
Retired Czech Commissioner Vladimír Dzuro presents his book The Investigator - Demons of the Balkan War at the Embassy of the Czech Republic on September 19, at 6 pm. The book is a fascinating story of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and how investigators brought to justice some of the worst war criminals of the 20th century. Join us for an intriguing evening as Dzuro shares with us his personal account of investigating war crimes and uncovering the truth.

BIOGRAPHY: Vladimír Dzuro, Commissioner ret. was born in the Czech Republic. Between 1983 and 1995, he worked as a criminal detective initially with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Prague investigating violent crime and later at the National Central Bureau (NCB) of Interpol in Prague.
In 1994, he actively participated in the work of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in the former Yugoslavia. In April 1995, he began a ten-year stint as an investigator with the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. Vladimir currently works as Chief of New York Headquarters Office at the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services.
The Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia awarded Vladimir, for his many years of successful work for the international justice, the International Justice Medal. The Czech Minister of Defense awarded him the highest decoration for non-military person, the Golden Linden. The Czech Police President present to Vladimir the Czech Police Force Plaque and a Medal of Honor for his continuing contribution to internationally promoting the reputation of the Police Force of the Czech Republic.

Politics and Prose will be providing books for sale at the event.
Folks attending included Czech Ambassador to United States Miloslav Stase.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. INVEST_220919_001.JPG: Vladimír Dzuro, Czech Ambassador to United States Miloslav Stase
2. INVEST_220919_051.JPG: Book Talk: The Investigator: Demons of the Balkan War Featuring author Vladimír Dzuro
3. INVEST_220919_059.JPG: Czech Ambassador to United States Miloslav Stase.
4. INVEST_220919_095.JPG: Death of the dictator -- Josip Broz Tito May 4, 1980
5. INVEST_220919_117.JPG: War in Slovenia 27 June - 7 July 1991
6. INVEST_220919_122.JPG: War in Croatia 31 March 1991 - 12 November 1995
7. INVEST_220919_127.JPG: War in Bosna and Herzegovina 6 April 1992 - 14 December 1995
8. INVEST_220919_136.JPG: Establishment of ICTY by the UN Security Council
9. INVEST_220919_155.JPG: Madeleine Albright's testimony before ICTY
10. INVEST_220919_182.JPG: Jurisdiction * Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions * Violations of the laws or customs of war * Genocide * Crimes against humanity
11. INVEST_220919_187.JPG: Vukovar, Croatia, before the 1991 war
12. INVEST_220919_210.JPG: The Battle of Vukovar 25 August through 18 November 1991 JNA & Serbs * 36,000 soldiers * 1,103 killed * 2,500 injured Croatian defenders * 1,800 soldiers * 879 killed * 770 injured
13. INVEST_220919_220.JPG: Destruction of the city of Vukovar
14. INVEST_220919_231.JPG: Secret removal of people from the Vukovar hospital by Yugoslav Army
15. INVEST_220919_240.JPG: Ovcara Massacre
16. INVEST_220919_248.JPG: "... Slobadan, send us salad, we will have meat, we will slaughter Croats..."
17. INVEST_220919_265.JPG: Fake news in post-conflict environment On 20 November 1991, Serbian media in Belgrade broadcast that the Croatian defenders, before they surrendered to the JNA, slaughtered 40 Serbian Children.
18. INVEST_220919_323.JPG: Retraction of the fake news
19. INVEST_220919_342.JPG: Ovcara grave site examination by PHR
20. INVEST_220919_372.JPG: Reluctance to arrest indicted war criminals
21. INVEST_220919_380.JPG: Operation Little Flower The arrest of the first war criminal indicted by an international tribunal since the end of World War II. Vukovar massacre From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Vukovar massacre, also known as the Vukovar hospital massacre or the Ovčara massacre, was the killing of Croatian prisoners of war and civilians by Serb paramilitaries, to whom they had been turned over by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), at the Ovčara farm southeast of Vukovar on 20 November 1991, during the Croatian War of Independence. The massacre occurred shortly after Vukovar's capture by the JNA, Territorial Defence (TO), and paramilitaries from neighbouring Serbia. It was the largest massacre of the Croatian War of Independence. In the final days of the battle, the evacuation of the Vukovar hospital was negotiated between Croatian authorities, the JNA and the European Community Monitor Mission in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The JNA subsequently refused the ICRC access to the hospital despite the agreement and removed approximately 300 people from its premises. The group, largely consisting of Croats but also including Serbs, Hungarians, Muslims and two foreign nationals who fought on the side of the Croatian National Guard, was initially transported to the JNA barracks in Vukovar. Several prisoners were identified as hospital staff and removed from the group to be returned to the hospital while the rest of them were transported to the Ovčara farm south of Vukovar. Once at the farm, the prisoners were beaten for several hours before the JNA pulled its troops from the site, leaving the prisoners in the custody of the Croatian Serb TO and Serbian paramilitaries. The prisoners were then taken to a prepared site, shot in groups of ten to twenty and buried in a mass grave. The mass grave was discovered in October 1992 and guarded by the United Nations Protection Force which had deployed to the area earlier that year. In 1996, 200 sets of remains were exhumed from the grave by International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) investigators. Croatia believes 61 others were buried in a different grave on the site, while ICTY prosecutors believe that figure stands at 60. The ICTY convicted two JNA officers in connection with the massacre, and also tried former Serbian President Slobodan Milošević for a number of war crimes, including those committed at Vukovar. Milošević died in prison before his trial could be completed. Several former members of the Croatian Serb TO and Serbian paramilitary units have been tried by the Serbian judiciary and convicted for their involvement in the massacre. In February 2015, the International Court of Justice ruled that the siege, massacre and simultaneous atrocities committed elsewhere in Croatia did not constitute genocide. The site of the mass grave is marked by a monument and the storage building used at Ovčara farm to hold the prisoners in captivity before their execution was rebuilt as a memorial centre in 2006. By July 2014, the centre had been visited by about 500,000 tourists. ... War crime trials In November 1995, the ICTY indicted Mrkšić, Šljivančanin and JNA captain Miroslav Radić for war crimes related to the Ovčara massacre. The group was subsequently termed the "Vukovar three" by the media. The ICTY also charged Dokmanović, mayor of Vukovar at the time, with war crimes in connection with the massacre in a sealed indictment in March 1996. He was arrested by UNTAES troops in Operation Little Flower and transferred to the ICTY via Čepin Airfield on 27 June 1997. The operation was the first arrest of a person indicted by the ICTY by any UN force in the former Yugoslavia. Dokmanović's trial never produced a verdict, however. He hanged himself in his ICTY prison cell on 28 June 1998, several days before a verdict was to be announced. The ICTY also linked Serb warlord Željko Ražnatović and his paramilitary formations to the massacre, but he was assassinated in Belgrade before he could be brought to trial. Mrkšić surrendered to the ICTY in the Netherlands in May 2002. Radić and Šljivančanin were arrested in Serbia in May and June 2003 respectively. The arrests were made shortly before the expiration of a deadline set by the U.S. Congress linking financial assistance to Serbia to its cooperation with the ICTY. In 2007, the ICTY convicted Mrkšić and Šljivančanin, but acquitted Radić. Mrkšić received a 20-year prison sentence, while Šljivančanin was sentenced to five years in prison. In 2009, Šljivančanin's sentence was increased to 17 years in prison on appeal and finally reduced to ten years following a review of the judgment in 2010. The ICTY also indicted Milošević, as well as Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović of the Serbian State Security Service, Croatian Serb political leader Goran Hadžić and the leader of the Serbian Radical Party Vojislav Šešelj for various war crimes, including those committed in Vukovar. Milošević's trial ended without any verdict upon his death in March 2006, while the Vukovar-related charges against Stanišić and Simatović were dropped from their indictments even before the pair were acquitted on all counts in 2013. In March 2016, Šešelj was acquitted on all counts, pending appeal. In 2018, he was convicted of hate speech for inciting the deportation of Croats from Hrtkovci in 1992, and sentenced to ten years imprisonment, but acquitted on all other counts, including those pertaining to Vukovar. Hadžić died of cancer in July 2016, before his trial could be completed. As of 2015, Serbian authorities have convicted 15 people in connection with the Ovčara massacre. In 2010, Vujović and Stanko Vujanović (deputy commander of Croatian Serb TO in Vukovar) were convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison along with eleven others, all of them former members of the Croatian Serb TO or Leva Supoderica. Predrag Milojević, Đorđe Šošić, Miroslav Đanković and Saša Radak were sentenced to 20 years in prison, Milan Vojnović and Ivan Antonijević were sentenced to 15 years in prison, Jovica Perić was sentenced to 13 years, Nada Kalaba was sentenced to 11 years, Milan Lančužanin was sentenced to seven, and Predrag Dragović and Goran Mugoša were given five-year prison sentences. In December 2013, these convictions were set aside by the Constitutional Court of Serbia and the case was returned to the Court of Appeals for a new trial. In February 2015, Vujović, Vujanović, Milojević, Radak, Šošić and Đanković were released from custody based on a decision of the Supreme Court of Cassation pending a retrial by the Court of Appeals. In a separate trial completed in 2014, Serbian authorities convicted and sentenced Petar Ćirić to 15 years in prison for participating in the massacre as a member of Leva Supoderica. In February 2015, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that the siege and ensuing massacre did not constitute genocide, though it confirmed that serious crimes had taken place.
22. INVEST_220919_392.JPG: Ovcara Massacre Suspects
23. INVEST_220919_400.JPG: Operation Little Flower
24. INVEST_220919_408.JPG: Was Dokmanovic arrested legally?
25. INVEST_220919_475.JPG: This guy was also involved in prosecuting the war criminals
26. INVEST_220919_540.JPG: Impact of Operation Little Flower
27. INVEST_220919_553.JPG: More Fake News with Lethal Consequences
28. INVEST_220919_558.JPG: Propaganda in Sarajevo * The Muslim extremists have come up with the world's most horrible way of torturing. Last night, in the Pioneer Valley ZOO, they threw live Serbian children to the cages with lions, Serbian guards from Kromlja reporting. * RTS Belgrade 16 July 1992
29. INVEST_220919_564.JPG: Propaganda on Srebrenica
30. INVEST_220919_583.JPG: Serbian Broadcaster RTS Says Sorry for "Hate Speech" Under Milosevic "During the tragic events of the 1990s, RTS with its reporting on many occasions hurt the feelings, moral integrity and dignity of the Serbian citizens, intellectuals, members of political opposition, journalists, ethnic and religious minorities, as well as certain neighboring peoples and states." -- Belgrade 24 May 2011
31. INVEST_220919_760.JPG: Note that it's all in Czech and then you run into some passages... "Propaganda a fake news..." I had to ask him afterward did they understand the terms "fake news" in English. They said that yes, the American term has become pretty much universally understood. This is disturbing. Let's say the word "diarrhea" was universally recognized for what it is... You'd start worrying about why this is identified with English. Are we so well known for diarrhea that our word for it is universal? It's the same issue with "fake news".
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