Anna Di Lelio for Special Court: Wrong judicial logic has devastating consequences for innocent people and for righteousness itself

Anna Di Lelio, a former Italian journalist who has served in the United Nations mission in the postwar years in Kosovo and has recently published a book “The most powerful”, along with journalist Garentina Kraja, where war crimes and sexual violence against women are documented recently, has also been declared for the Special Chambers in The Hague, which are ahead of the verdicts in the trial of Thaci, Veselin, Krasniqi and Selimi.
In an authorial writing for the “Memorial Bridges” conference, co-organised by KIPRED and organisation “Liberty has a name”, Di Lelio has reflected in her work as media commissioner in post-war Kosovo.
It states that “any discussion on reconciliation ) in Kosovo and elsewhere should address fundamental questions such as “Patim between whom?” and “Payback for what?”
Author Di Lelio also reflected on the work of the conference that gathered many international transitional justice experts, noting that “at the conference Remembering Bridges was a discussion on the Chambers Specialised by Justice Experts, which impressed me with criticism of the lack of transparency and poor collection practices and assessment of evidence. ”
Di Lelio estimated that the discussion of the Special Court reminded “of Stanford University historian Carlo Ginzburg” who years ago stated that “although historians and judges should carefully link evidence to material evidence, wrong judicial logic based on circumstantial evidence, unlike historical errors that can be corrected, there are especially devastating consequences for innocent people and for justice itself. ”











