A new frontier for the defense of human dignity : from the ad hoc tribunals to an international criminal court : competence and jurisdiction of an ICC [Ivan Zvonimir Cicak]

Abstract

There comes the time when yesterday's bakers, painters, poets, chimney-sweepers and engineers turn into cold-blooded murderers over night. This is a story about one of them. A phone rang in the editorial office of Feral. Forty-year-old Miro Bajramovic, mechanical engineer, father of four. Later it will be seen that besides these benign facts, Miro Bajramovic is, by his own confession, responsible for the death of 86 people, out of which he killed 72 with his own hands. He was a member of Mercep's unit "Autumn Rain" in Gospic, Pakracke Poljane serving a 4 month prison term. Unlike some of his fellow soldiers, who have in the meantime built restaurants and have been awarded medals from the President, Bajramovic is rejected and today has nothing except - as he says - a wonderful family. He wanted to tell his story to the public, a story which certainly in this country is not the only one, but is nevertheless no less horrifying. We spoke with him at several different locations (from Tuesday to Friday). What follows is his complete story. [excerpt]