Tell It to the World
International Justice and the Secret Campaign to Hide Mass Murder in Kosovo
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Publisher Description
Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction — Shortlisted
On April 5, 1999, Serbian police found a truck half-submerged in the Danube River. When they looked inside, they found it filled with human bodies. Following orders, they hid the truck and its contents. Two weeks later, on the other side of Serbia, the same thing happened.
The full picture would only emerge years later, when the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia investigated and prosecuted the chief architects of the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo. These cases, which formally came to a close in 2014, exposed a secret campaign to hide terrible crimes by transporting and concealing the bodies of the dead.
In Tell It to the World, Eliott Behar, a former war crimes prosecutor, tells the true story of what unfolded. He examines the causes and consequences of mass violence, identifying a powerful and disturbing connection between the justice we seek and the injustices we commit.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Selected as a finalist for the 2015 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Tell It to the World is an important and thought-provoking read for anyone interested in world politics. With thoughtful precision, lawyer Eliott Behar narrates his experiences prosecuting the perpetrators of the ethnic cleansing of Albanians in Kosovo; his skillful storytelling gives this real-life inquiry the urgency of a courtroom drama. The stakes are even higher here, of course. By urging us to reconsider our concepts of justice and injustice, Behar hopes to provide a framework to better understand and prevent the hatred and political violence that have erupted worldwide, from the former Yugoslavia to Rwanda.
Customer Reviews
Tell It To The World - A book worth telling about!
I read this book from cover to cover and although I thought it might be full of statistics and legalize, I was wonderfully surprised to find it hard to put down. Eliott Behar's approach to the subject is exactly what is needed for the general public like me who may know almost nothing about what exactly went on on the ground (let alone where the ground was) and in the courts. I am loaning the book to a Serbian colleague who left the country before the conflicts started.
Mr. Behar is a very good writer. This is his first book. I certainly hope that it is not his last!