FAINT SHOUTING, DOG BARKS
Pasko!
TELEPHONE RINGS
Yes?
Today?
I don't understand. Arbour isn't due from Canada for another week.
Fine.
There's supposed to be a car here to take you two to the new house.
You're not coming? I can't. I'm due at the UN.
Mom.
Found another one.
You haven't even started the job and already you're getting heckled.
Nice work. I liked her better before she learnt to talk(!) Heard that.
Judge Arbour. Jim Vis - head of your protection detail. Oh, Jim. Good to meet you.
ON CAR RADIO: 'One would hope that any military force
'will be given specific instructions with regard...'
MAN: They could've thrown a dog to the crowd. It'd be more qualified.
Now you're exaggerating. I'm entitled.
I'm annoyed.
The second genocide trial in history and it's handed to an academic who has never prosecuted a single case.
Technically, prosecuting is YOUR job, Mr Chief Counsel. Not yet.
But I'm sure the UN picked her for a reason.
That's exactly what I'm worried about.
< Step through, please.
BEEPING
Hi. You're in good hands with this one. Your assistant - Tina Cooper.
It is so good to finally meet you, Judge Arbour.
Please, call me Louise. It's a pleasure, Tina.
We've got a busy day ahead.
Lots to catch up on.
I've scheduled a lunch debriefing with your senior team. OK.
Thought you'd be starving after that flight.
I like you already.
It's this way.
Think of Yugoslavia as Europe's Middle East.
A religion-fuelled powder keg.
Serbs, Croats and Muslims were originally one nation.
Till the Slovenian Croatia claimed independence, causing civil war.
Ah! Lovely.
But our jurisdiction is war crimes. I'm sure we can prove them here.
On all sides, unfortunately.
Odon heads our investigators.
They can't get complete ground access yet, but rough numbers.
Two million displaced and a quarter of a million systematically raped, butchered, murdered.
Mostly civilians. How's the case shaping up?
So far we have indicted 74.
Oh. And how many arrests?
Seven.
You're joking. In three years you've made seven arrests?!
Neither Serbs nor Croats will hand over their own.
And we have no police force to compel them.
Come on, half of what's left of the damn country is crawling with UN peacekeepers.
Why don't our guys arrest them? Officially...
NATO claims they haven't found any of them yet. Oh!
Unofficially?
Everyone is afraid of Yugoslav President Milosevic.
War could break out at any time if he reacts.
Look, the entire tribunal started as a PR manoeuvre.
The UN doesn't look impotent.
But NATO doesn't want us setting legal precedents affecting their wars.
We've only survived that long because we're not rocking the boat.
We're understaffed, underfunded... And chasing criminals who aren't meant to see trial?
That's ludicrous.
That's politics.
Welcome to the UN.
Maps, military histories, military profiles.
And only the latest on everything you've got for this investigation.
Criminal reports, depositions, surveillance tapes, indictments - completed and in progress.
Well, actually, I got you started on most of that already.
I'll say this for the tribunal, we document the hell out of everything.
SHE CHUCKLES
How about I get you a cup of coffee?
How about you make it a pot?
SHE LAUGHS
REPORTER: 'As Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic enjoyed a dictatorial rule over his country
'despite insisting he had been voted into the job democratically.'
These are people from my town.
"Leave here now, you have my word you will not be hurt."
That's General Miladic. He's a liar.
7,000 of those men were killed and another 23,000 forced into exodus on foot.
Mostly women and children.
Pasko Odzak. Interpreter.
Louise.
I sure hope you speak UN - I have a feeling I could use that.
It's the arrogance of documenting their crimes with a TV crew.
Apparently they think they're untouchable. So far they are.
REPORTER: 'The Hague War Crimes Tribunal has issued two indictments against Karadzic and Mladic
'dating from 1995.
'They charged the men with genocide and crimes against humanity...'
Most of the criminals we've indicted are living in the same houses they had before the war.
Journalists have found them and combined NATO forces claim they can't. It's unbelievable!
No work talk at dinner, Mom. Right.
No more. So how's the new school going?
It sucks. Thanks for asking.
OK. So how long before I get punished for bringing us here?
How long is your contract?
It's like I've been set up to fail and everybody knew it but me.
You're really worried?
No. But I'll tell you, it makes me angry.
Then THEY should be worried.
That's right. They should.
REPORTER: 'A crisis that continues today with more refugees, more killings...'
You beat the janitors in again!
Get in any earlier and you might as well start sleeping here.
Oh! I got the slides that you wanted. Excellent.
Tina? Yep.
Will you take that box and take it down to the Documentation Room?
And when the staff get in, assemble them for a meeting there.
Sure.
Sir, I have indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic in my sight.
Permission to apprehend.
With all due respect, sir, I don't think it's interfering with the politics of the region. If...
Yes, sir. I understand.
Let him through.
We salute you, NATO peacekeepers!
We might as well be bloody knitting out here!
New rules - the UN limits our funding, we limit our focus.
Starting here.
We are dropping these cases.
You can't be serious.
You're talking about men who tortured, castrated and raped.
We can't afford to be emotional here.
We don't have the resources to prosecute every case. What do you propose to do?
Legal triage.
From now on, we focus on these three events.
..Tina.
First - the Srebrenica massacre, Bosnia.
The Prijedor prison camps, also in Bosnia.
And the Vukovar hospital slaughter, Croatia.
Three of the most heinous, best documented crimes of the war, agreed?
Yeah. OK. Who are the top people responsible for these slaughters?
Well, the Bosnian slaughters - that would be the "General and the Poet".
That's what we call Radovan Karadzic. But we've already indicted them.
And we're sure we can't arrest them, huh? They're living in the French patrol town.
And the French have made it clear that they have no intention of getting involved in any arrests. OK.
Let's just put a pin in them for now. Lights, please. MURMUR OF LAUGHTER
Thanks.
SHE SIGHS
Vukovar. Your people have just uncovered a mass grave. There are huge amounts of new evidence, yeah?
Intel says it was ordered by the town's mayor at the time.
Which means he took his orders higher up the Serb chain of command.
Let's see how far we can follow that.
No more small fish.
Look...
..I know you've all fought like hell just to get the tribunal this far, I understand that.
But if we're going to be effective, things are going to have to change.
HE EXHALES SHARPLY
I'm going to Vukovar.
I want to see crime scene for myself.
MURMURING
All right, then. Keller's arranged for us to detour in Sarajevo on the way back,
meet with the dignitaries and the NATO generals. Good.
He'll join us there.
Last chance. You don't have to do this, you know.
This isn't exactly standard procedure. Why?
That's the point.
Let's show they we're not just here to push paper.
You'll need to sit on that, Madame Justice. Really?
Bullets come from below. Avoid a nasty surprise that way.
That would be a real pain in the ass, wouldn't it?
WOMAN SPEAKS LOCAL DIALECT
It's OK, we're here.
She's heard you're a mother. She knows you understand.
She lost her son and three grandsons here.
She wants you to see the remains. The remains? The bones.
She thinks she'll recognise them.
So they can be buried.
Tell her that we can't release them yet. They're evidence. Not to her. She wants them in a grave.
Tell her that we'll release them to her as soon as Forensics have finished their work.
She wants your word - mother to mother.
Have I offended Pasko?
His wife is still missing from the war. It weighs on him sometimes.
Do you think that's wise, relying on someone so personally involved?
That's WHY we rely on him.
Look, this war is as complicated as any you'll hear of.
You don't just need someone who understands the language. You need someone who understands the people.
Hi. I'm Camille Gilbert. Forensics. Good to meet you.
Let's give you the VIP tour.
From the state of the bodies, I'd say they were beaten first, pretty severely.
We found blunt force and spiral fractures.
And then they did a shoot and drop.
They made them dig a grave, then lined them up.
Shot them all and let them drop right in.
Bulldozers came, covered it all up.
Pretty efficient. The whole thing probably took about half an hour, tops.
So far we think about a third of the bodies were buried alive.
You can support those forensics in court? I look forward to it.
You picked a good one to view as far as graves go. Why's that?
I haven't found any children yet.
In Turopolje I was digging out toddlers.
I just talked to my team in Bosnia.
There's still nothing.
How many dead?
My guesstimate is between 250 - 300.
Same approximate count as, er...
were abducted from the hospital. That's promising.
So far we have excellent witness testimony tying Mayor Dokmanovic
to the hospital disappearances.
So no we need the... evidence to prove that...
..these bodies were those they met.
I think we could manage that.
We found ID tags, catheters, even crutches.
Most of the men were civilians or Croatian military. But some of them were patients, few terminal.
Bastards wouldn't even let nature take its course.
I'm no legal expert, but, er, I'd say that breaks a Geneva Convention or two, wouldn't you?
SHE GAGS Excuse me.
Come on. Get you to upwind.
It's hard to call anything around this place fresh air.
This is as good as it gets.
Here - choose. Secret weapon.
Spearmint distracts your gag reflex.
Really? Yep.
Unfortunately, the taste of spearmint will remind you of dead people from now on.
Captain John Tanner. British Army.
Louise Arbour.
A long way from your zone, Captain.
We move between zones. Keep track of where the bad guys are hiding.
I'm impressed you came here.
It's a good sign. Really? How so?
Cos there's a difference between seeing this shit and reading about it.
Mostly legal types are too detached, clinical... No offence.
Well, I'm as guilty of that as any.
I mean, the law's so wonderfully complex.
You don't want to cloud it with sentiment.
I'd say you've got your work cut out for you here. Good luck.
MUSIC PLAYS, PEOPLE MAKE CONVERSATION
Nice to meet you.
My wife. Hi.
Hi.
Judge Arbour. ..Excuse me.
So, how was Vukovar? Oh, very sobering.
I can't stop thinking about it.
I'm not much in the mood for fake smiles and handshakes.
The generals have arrived.
General.
Judge Arbour, this is General Salinski, commander of the US Army,
General Mortimer, commander of the British Army, and General Leveillee, head of the French naval mission.
I understand you've just returned from Vukovar.
And I understand suspects from Vukovar and other crimes are at large in all your zones.
I was hoping you gentlemen might help me understand that.
The situation is quite complicated, as I'm sure you realise.
Well, I can't try them until you arrest them. It seems simple enough to me.
Are we policemen now? I thought we were soldiers. Any reason you can't be both?
Mogadishu.
My people don't want to see any more dead Marines dragged naked through the streets.
This is not our war.
Oh, I'm not talking about war.
I'm talking about war crimes. The Geneva Conventions.
The very laws that separate soldiers from common killers.
Don't you all have a vested interest in helping me uphold that?
How long have you been involved with the Balkans peace? Six weeks.
Ah.
We've been watching this region for five years, but we understand the situation just a little better.
I admire your tribunal, Madam Justice.
But, er, we finally managed to broker peace here.
And that is our priority.
Putting a few men in jail won't bring back their dead.
But it might bring back the war.
It's too risky. So might making treaties with Mr Milosevic while ignoring the victims.
That's not peace. That's cease-fire.
We're all on the same side, gentlemen. Oh.
But until you start helping me do my job,
you're not doing yours.
Next time you're going to self-destruct, let me know.
I'll get out of the way.
It's OK. I made my point.
The point is that the generals are running the game here, not us.
If we push them, they'll shut us down. And where's your justice then?
SHE MUMBLES UNDER HER BREATH
I'm glad I can't translate that! Thank you.
Let's go.
I'll walk you.
Um, I want to apologise for earlier at the graveside.
I was unprofessional.
But the UN has a habit of making promises they never keep.
So if you don't believe in the UN, why work for their tribunal?
I signed on as an interpreter during the war. I, I thought NATO was our only hope.
CAR HORN BEEPS
Instead, they watched and did nothing.
And while I was working, Marianna disappeared.
I'm sorry.
I stay now because it's the best way to look for her.
But, er... listening to the generals tonight.
They still protect Milosevic's men. What's changed?
Maybe they intend for the tribunal to fail, but I don't.
And I need you to trust that. We're going to work together.
SHE CHUCKLES
We know how nervous Grandmama gets, driving in the city, huh?
SHE CONTINUES CHUCKLING
You're right, Melanie. I think we keep encouraging her.
OK. Yeah.
You get some sleep.
I love you too.
OK, sweetheart. Bye.
TELEPHONE RINGS
Hello?
MAN: 'That was a ballsy move, questioning the generals like that. Career suicide, but ballsy.'
Captain Tanner.
Ballsy, huh?
That's high praise, coming from a military man.
Although, I'm sure the generals are calling me something quite different tonight. Does it matter?
Look, the generals mean well, they're good men.
But they're not soldiers any more.
They're politicians.
They can't help you like I can.
Help me, how?
Let's just say my connections exceed my rank.
You do have some allies out there, Judge Arbour.
'If you have obstacles, I have ways around them if you're willing to take the risk.'
Think it over. I'll be in touch.
Here's the information you requested on Captain Tanner.
What's in all this?
Military profile. He's British SAS. Seems legit. Flies under the radar, mostly.
Born in West Virginia. His father was US military. Took a post in London. The family never left.
Oh, and that's a list of war crime suspects hiding in the Brit zone.
Tell Keller and Odon I want to meet with them. Now.
I can get us the mayor of Vukovar.
When you say "get"? I mean arrest, apprehend. In other words incarcerate his ass.
How? He's in Serbian territory.
According to Odon's investigators, he has property in the neutral zone
and checks on them periodically himself.
And?
So, we bait them. You know, make a phone call and say he has buyers, get him to visit it.
Once he's there...he's ours.
He won't go there the moment we indict him.
What if he doesn't know he's being indicted?
What if no-one does but the judge and the three of us in this room?
Secret indictments?
But that's not the way it's done.
Hence our fabulous success rate(!)
The moment we announce indictments the criminals go underground.
Sealed indictments are a perfectly legal option.
Go on.
So...
we issue those indictments to commanders in the field...
that we trust.
I know one - SAS.
Outside the command structure.
The generals wouldn't have time to block us.
If anything goes wrong, they'll come down hard on the tribunal.
But if this works...
..this could mean all the difference to us.
I really think this is a gamble worth taking.
All right, after Dokmanovic... we have room for one more strike.
Who do you want from the British zone?
Make it count.
For me, there's no question.
Yes.
Milan Kovacevic.
Head of the Prijedor prison and rape camps.
He must have taken orders straight from the Poet or the General.
Kovacevic it is.
Let's write 'em up!
Under article 18, we charge Milan Kovacevic with genocide, crimes against humanity
'violations of the laws and customs of war, and great breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949.'
Your Honour. Do you two have any idea what time it is?
We've finished writing up these indictments, but it's imperative that we work quickly
and these are to remain sealed after signing.
Blue team in position.
That's him.
Green team, it's a go on the doctor.
PEOPLE SCREAM, MEN SHOUT
Stop!
TELEPHONE RINGS
Yes.
Got a present for you.
We're bringing them both in.
We got 'em!
So, how did it go? Was anyone hurt?
Doctor had some minor heart palpitations. He's clear, medically. Congratulations!
Me? No. This was you.
'I couldn't have done this without you.' OK. I'll see you later.
Congratulations!
SHE LAUGHS WITH JOY
Congratulations!
You hear that?
SILENCE
Silence.
The day's almost over, but no reprisals from Milosevic.
We're heading to trial with two strong cases.
The world is watching, Louise.
Even the generals can't shut us down any more.
We shouldn't get too excited yet. We still have to win them in court.
Hmm, minor detail.
Well...
I should be heading home while my family still recognises me.
By the way, I'm sorry.
For doubting you.
Really?
Don't make a big deal of it.
It's probably just the wine talking.
See you tomorrow. Goodnight, Thomas.
Louise? Mm-hm. It's...General Leveillee.
OK. Put him on.
Louise...he's not on the phone.
He's here.
What were you thinking with those arrests?
I was thinking about doing my job. What part of European instability is in your job description?
A dozen Croatian suspects have turned themselves in since this morning. This is working.
Russia is Serbia's big brother.
If NATO pushes Milosevic into a wider war,
Yeltsin has already sworn involvement, so has China.
War could weaken Serbia's hold on Montenegro.
Which would bring in Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria.
All this. One string undone, and everything can unravel.
We can't be sure of that.
We can be risking it either.
BIRDS CHIRRUP AND CHATTER
SHE SCREAMS
MEN LAUGH, DOGS BARK
HE CRIES IN ALARM
Mr Dokmanovic, you have been charged with numerous offences,
stemming from the assault on the Vukovar township.
HE TRANSLATES
Pasko Odzak.
Kindly have your client direct ALL comments to me.
Enough!
From where did you get your orders for the Vukovar murders?
When you have bugs crawling all over your house, do you need to wait for orders to step on them?
So you admit to your command role in the Vukovar hospital attack, Mr Dokmanovic?
Excuse me. What did he say?
What is he saying?
Pasko?
What the hell was that?
Pasko? Do you have any idea how badly stunts like that could hurt us legally? I'm sorry.
All right.
Look...
I can't even imagine how difficult this must be for you.
But...
maybe there is a division somewhere where you can be useful, but you cannot be in the centre.
And this is not a criticism.
Nobody's going to blame you for taking a step back.
I would. I'd blame me.
But...
I'm not like the others. You have caged me like an animal.
I'm a man of culture, a healer.
Really?
It seems that you have... redefined the term.
War makes men savages.
It's universal.
Men make themselves savages, Dr. War is the result, not the cause.
Is this an interview or a metaphysics lecture?
You personally organised, built and ran the Omarska, Turnopolje and Keraterm prison camps,
all in the township of Prijedor, yes or no?
I was born in a concentration camp, did you know that?
Second World War.
More than half a million of my people were slaughtered by Nazis and Croats.
Where was your moral outrage then?
Where was your tribunal for us?
You ran Omarska, yes or no, Doctor?
Those Nazis, those Croats,
you think they weren't waiting to start butchering us again?
Well,
what about...women and children?
Your men were in fear of them too?
Omarksa housed one of the single largest rape operations of the war.
Do you deny that?
Don't answer that.
HE SIGHS
It was regrettable business.
I have a wife, lovely daughters.
I never touched those people.
How can I explain?
I was following orders.
Orders from who?
You're asking my client to implicate others.
Is there an offer on the table?
No.
No deals.
Oh, Jim. Jeez! Is that all you have for tonight(?)
I thought I'd slack a little.
You know, you're such a rebel. Thank you, Johan. Goodnight.
Couldn't you find a box?
Pasko. ..It's all right, Jim.
Peace offering.
Big day tomorrow, huh?
Yeah.
A toast?
Come on.
Ah!
I thought Muslims didn't drink. No.
Maybe that's why I'm so bad at it.
You know, I got the distinct feeling during the war that, um...
..God had stopped watching, so I doubt he'll mind this.
Well, I don't know if he's watching or not, but he is hoping you'll like slivovitz. Oh, he likes!
When is it that hate becomes so much a part of a man that it defines him?
Hmm.
There's been an Odzak in my father's village for...800 years -
before your country was even born - and...
all the time there's been a Serb or Croat that didn't want him there.
Hate that old can't be understood.
Yeah.
They aren't in the mind any more, they are in the bone.
Where is it that your father was from?
Outside of Prijedor.
Mm-hm, at the camps? Mmm.
The war was getting worse - shelling everyday. And...
..I didn't want Marianna staying in Sarajevo, so...I sent her to be with relatives near Prijedor.
Pasko, you couldn't have known.
She would try to escape, to fight - that's just who she is.
I wanted to tell you that I don't expect justice any more. Tsk.
I just want to know where she is.
I want the truth, that's all.
Please describe to the best of your memory,
events that started in Vukovar Hospital, November 18th, 1991,
and ended in a field 42 hours later.
I...remember...
SHE CLEARS HER THROAT
..Mayor Dokmanovic entering the hospital grounds...
with s-soldiers.
He told them to leave the stuff, but...
..collect all the other men.
TRANSLATION: We were loaded onto school buses, taken to a farm...
It was chaos.
People beaten and killed around you at random. But you escaped? How?
HE INHALES DEEPLY
They beat my brother Pavel to death.
I hid under him till morning.
Those who survived...
..we took to an empty field and shot them all.
On whose orders?
Dokmanovic.
Can you tell us who it was?
Thank you.
It was him.
Thank you.
Can you tell us what happened to you at Omarska camp?
Three months in a room with 100 other men.
So cramped that we had to stand.
When the guards found out that Evetzar is your son, what, if anything, did they do?
They said that I must choose.
They would kill my son or 12 other men.
And what did you do?
I kissed my son goodbye... and then they cut his throat...
..in front of me.
They were calling it the "white house".
Can you tell us what happened to the women there?
Men would come. Choose.
Night and day.
Day and night.
I was captured with my daughters Fatima and Ayisha.
After me, they came for Ayisha.
That first night, a solider kicked at me, pulling her from my arms.
I could feel every little muscle shivering under her clothes.
I said, "Don't fight them, just close your eyes."
SHE MOUTHS: Close your eyes.
And then she was gone.
She was 13.
SHE SOBS
A mother should be able to protect her daughter from such things!
She should be able to protect her!
Here, let me do that. Oh, thanks.
Mom, are you OK?
Yeah, I'm fine.
OK.
That was a lovely dinner, Mama.
C'est bien.
I might go out. I might do something.
I know, how about we all go to the carol service.
Sounds like fun. Yeah!
I don't know, guys. I don't know that I'm up to it tonight.
She's got a lot on her mind. Yeah, well...
She never noticed my hair.
I like your your hair. Thank you, Grandma.
Any other incidents? No.
Phone calls? Nothing.
My security detail's looking into it, but...
I'll talk to him, see if... No, no, no. It's OK.
This probably won't be the last threat, Louise.
I should take it as a compliment, I suppose - shaking people up.
Are they shaking you up?
These trails are getting to me.
I warned you.
I can barely look at my own family.
Other mothers have lost so much.
All that murder and misery just to moves some lines on a damn map.
As long as there are borders...
..there will be war and more crimes.
That's why what you're doing is so important. You can't let anything get in your way.
I don't intend to.
Do you know her?
She was in your camp.
I've heard that some women escaped from there.
Please leave me alone.
Her name's Marianna. She's 29 now. She's a teacher.
You both took losses. It was war.
Does she look like a soldier to you?
Huh? There is nothing I can do for you. I'm sorry.
Do you see the blood on my hands?! Look!
No blood!
He would claim that he was innocent.
That he was led by fear...
..duty, propaganda.
But in the end, none of that matters.
We aren't compelled to crawl inside his mind, unravel his reasonings.
No. All of that is swept aside and spoken for by his actions.
And we are left with two decisively proven truths.
Innocent civilians are dead and he is the cause.
It doesn't get much simpler than that.
HE EXHALES SHARPLY
My mother used to take me to the coast every summer.
Those are wonderful memories for me.
Did she die in the wars?
No. Thank God.
Years earlier. She never had to see what we came to.
I want you to promise me that you'll leave here.
The Hague?
The Hague, the UN - all of it.
And do what? Go where - Bosnia?
I'd be a refugee in my own home.
You'll have to make a new home.
After... After I find Marianna.
Judge Arbour! >
Judge Arbour! It's Dokmanovic.
GUARD'S RADIO CRACKLES
Who is in charge here? I am, Your Honour.
I want your report on my desk in one hour!
Why was he not on a suicide watch? I want all the prisoners on suicide watch for 24 hours.
They must be! Now!
There was nothing we could do.
Oh, you bastard!
Such an enormous loss. I mean, half of our case, you know?
Well...you still have Kovacevic.
Oh.
I just want to know that that's enough. It will be. You'll make it be.
You have been such an immense help to me, right from the start.
Why is that?
It was something you said in Sarajevo.
That the law would separate soldiers from murderers.
HE GASPS
Let's just say I have been an excellent soldier
and I need to believe in that difference and protect it.
Even if all I can do for you is help you keep your head on straight to fight your fight,
which I hope I've done.
Why the past tense?
I've been called out. Transferred to another operation.
I think some people don't approve of the help I've given you.
You picked a lousy day to say goodbye.
Well, it's not to say goodbye for good.
Let's just say goodbye for now.
You're going to pull this thing off, Louise.
MOBILE PHONE RINGS I knew that from the start. Excuse me.
Hello?
He was on a damn suicide watch.
It wasn't suicide. I think it was an arterial block.
His heart just stopped.
We have nothing left.
We have...nothing.
Home again, huh?
Camille!
I hope you have air miles cos I predict you are soon going to have an urge
to want to get far away from this. Very soon, trust me.
I thought you were in Vukovar. My team is. I have to testify in a couple of cases tomorrow.
And send some bodies back to the Vukovar widows. Get them some closure if I can.
I envy you that. I don't blame you.
I'd rather spend a day at a graveside than a day in court any time. Feels cleaner, somehow.
Yes, some days I'd agree.
Hell, some days, I wish I was happy eating bonbons and reading romance novels. Liar.
I've never felt so helpless.
I'm terrified we're going to fail here... despite our best intentions.
It's another thing we have in common.
HE CLEARS HIS THROAT
I know it's a set-back, going back to square one.
Unfortunately, the way I played it, er...
..I think we're just out of damn squares.
INDISTINCT SPEECH
It's like climbing Everest and being kicked back down to the bottom.
I don't think I have the energy to start again.
But if you walk away from this, it ends with you.
Don't, Pasko. Don't put this all on my shoulders, please.
Yes, I understand, but it is already on your shoulders.
You will be replaced by someone more obedient.
Then after the world stops watching,
the UN will pull the plug
and... the tribunal will never succeed.
I thought you didn't believe in good.
And I thought you did.
Oh, it smells so good in here!
Those tulips are beautiful.
Found them down the street.
Those colours.
Beautiful.
Louise, you left this in your study.
Ooh.
I-It turned out to be nothing. It's been handled.
I know. I spoke to Jim. Good.
But, er...
I'm not the one who found it.
Sweetheart?
Oh, sweetheart.
It was just a prank.
Really, it was...
It was just a prank. Someone trying to scare me, that's all. Honey?
They all seem like pranks until someone shoots you.
I didn't tell you or Grandmama because I didn't want to worry you. Stop treating me like I'm a kid!
You know, I didn't have to come with you. I could have stayed with Dad.
I left school, friends...a boyfriend.
Really? You had a boyfriend? Well this is news.
Mother, please.
SHE SIGHS HEAVILY Mom, I'm really proud of what you're doing.
I just hate that it always comes first.
I'm sorry.
It's doesn't. Mom, when you're here these days, you're not...HERE.
I miss you.
OK.
So what do I do to fix this, huh?
Well, you can start by letting me in more. OK.
And tell me the truth. Mm-hm.
Do I need to worry about you? No.
The UN has good people looking out for us.
OK? OK. And no more secrets, I promise.
SHE SIGHS HEAVILY
Let's do something fun tomorrow. Let's drive to Amsterdam. OK.
We'll have some lunch, do some shopping. Ooh, new clothes!
BELL TOLLS
TV PLAYS
SHE FLICKS THROUGH TV CHANNELS
REPORTER: 'On a hillside, above a small village, are sights you hope never to see.
'Led by their relatives, I was shown body after body, scattered over the frozen ground.
'Most riddled with bullets, many terribly mutilated.
'All were ethnic Albanians.
'Three brothers here who grew up together and died together in their '60s...'
So I guess we're not going shopping today.
'..as we approached the sunlit hilltop, the worst was to come.
'In a stony ditch, I counted 23 victims. Mostly young men, the youngest perhaps 17
'huddled together. Most had bullet wounds to the head.
'Slowly, those who had fled came here to find their loved ones. WOMAN SOBS
'"Look what they've done," she cries. "It's a massacre."
'The villagers say these men were killed by Serbian police.'
He's starting another war. The man must be mad.
And we're sure it was Milosevic JNA that did the killing?
This is Yugoslav Army all the way.
It's also fresh evidence. And they haven't had time
to bury the bodies yet. It's access like we've never had.
We need to get me into Kosovo.
So you're not giving up?
Well... I mean I don't have a rousing speech, if that's what you're waiting for.
But, no, I'm not giving up.
Wasn't a rousing speech I needed.
PEOPLE TALK AT ONCE
JOURNALISTS SHOUT OUT QUESTIONS
This is a UN laissez-passe. It gives me access to anywhere in your country.
You have no right to stop me.
I'm sorry.
You don't have the right document.
Have you been ordered to deny me access?
OK. Come on, Louise.
JOURNALISTS CONTINUE SHOUTING QUESTIONS
Judge Arbour!
What are we doing?
What has been the point of the last two and a half years?
Milosevic is laughing at us.
He is pissing over everything that we have done. Louise... It has to stop!
Milosevic is the president.
HE is the one that is giving the orders and we all knew that.
No, no, no, no, no. THAT path is madness.
Well so is giving up on Srebrenica and Prijedor and the widows that I met at Vukovar.
I promised these people that someone would pay for these victims.
Someone would pay for these crimes.
You can't indict the sitting president.
Oh, it's never been done.
But it IS within the law.
We just need to find the proof.
He hasn't had time to hide his Kosovo crimes yet.
He's too cocky.
He's being careless.
If there was ever a time to do this...
..it would be now.
So what are you saying?
We're going after Milosevic.
These wars started with him,
and one way or another, this tribunal ends with him.
OK.
Do you have a message for the Yugoslavian president?
Well I would ask President Milosevic
why we are being turned away from Kosovo if he has nothing there to hide.
It would naive of him to think that preventing me from entering the country
would prevent the criminal justice system from proceeding.
I want a field office set up on the Kosovo border in 24 hours.
And get Camille and her team in here before anyone has a chance to destroy the evidence.
Got it.
She's on her way.
EXCITED CHATTER
We'll leave a security team, cover up what we can get to.
We want no contamination while we're gone. We need the best team in Kosovo right now.
I spoke to Silas in the Omarska site. He's getting people ready to meet us there. He also said to give you this,
said that you'd know what it meant. Thanks.
We have reports of another massacre at a town called Suva Reka
and unconfirmed reports of five others - highly organised.
Isolated violence since the campaign.
Western governments have threatened air strikes if Milosevic involves an offensive.
If that happens, my people will need to pull out. I wouldn't worry yet. Just posturing.
NATO has never bombed a sovereign nation before.
We need signed statements from as many refugees as we can get.
I'm already organising that. Good.
And we need the evidentiary support linking President Milosevic and the others to these crimes.
He think he can keep me out of Kosovo? Let's see if he can keep himself out of the Hague!
Hi. Hiya. Hi.
I think you'll want to take a look at this.
How did she die?
Pasko. You don't want to... Yes.
It was a bullet to the back of the head.
Camille swears it was quick.
She was in a rape camp.
I don't want to feel this.
I don't want to mourn. I want my wife.
She was my grace, do you understand?
She was my grace.
MOURNFUL MUSIC PLAYS
The United States forces, acting with our NATO allies
have commenced air strikes against Serbian military targets in the former Yugoslavia.
They're going to do it.
We are ordered out. NATO is going to stop the offensive.
Oh, I don't believe it! Why now? Maybe your president wants to keep the pressure on them.
Don't get excited yet.
NATO doesn't want this to drag on with all eyes watching it.
This is the third chapter of this war. And how did it end with the other two? Let me deal with them.
From what I hear, Milosevic suspects we're hoping to indict him.
So this time you'll have new terms for a cease-fire.
He wants immunity. From us.
Kiss all the ass you need, Keller. Just get me a meeting with the generals.
OK.
Tell me what I'm hearing is wrong.
Tell me we're not about to offer him immunity for cease-fire.
That would be classified, Judge Arbour. You know better than that.
How many free passes are you willing to give him? How many genocides does one man get to wage?
So what is it you're looking for from us, Miss Arbour? Time.
Just time. It's imminent that I prove Milosevic's culpability.
Give me a chance to end this war in the Hague.
You've used up your goodwill here.
If your operation is falling apart as a result, you have no-one to blame but yourself.
LIFT BELL RINGS
LIFT STOPS ABRUPTLY
I beg your pardon. Well you should!
Leveillee I understand - he speaks for France.
Britain has always been a friend to this tribunal... Don't alienate us now. We've come too far to stop.
You should have thought of that before you went behind our backs and made those arrests.
Oh! I've done what I can for you, but you've made it difficult to champion you or even help you.
I am but one voice in that room.
What about outside that room?
You can get me the intelligence we need. Use your influence in Britain.
Don't just follow NATO blindly.
You don't know what you're asking.
Yes, I do.
And I'm asking it.
Because next time the leaders think they can break Geneva with impunity, the blood is on our hands too.
I don't know if you want that as your legacy, General. But I don't.
Good day, madam.
Louise! You need to come see this.
Justice Arbour. Compliments of General Mortimer.
What is it? More British intelligence on Yugoslavia.
Phone intercepts, satellite photos - everything we've collected over the last nine years of war.
The, er, general would like to wish you the best of luck.
It's got to be the biggest single transfer of British intelligence in history.
It HAS to have what we need. Bad news. Milosevic has is rotating his bank accounts. Half are offshore.
He maybe getting ready to run.
He's not exactly low-profile. No, but if Milosevic is about to be offered immunity for peace
he wouldn't have to run. NATO would have trumped us. They get to him first and we don't get the chance
to prove him guilty. Agreed. So what do we do?
We make our case. We serve before NATO has time to strike a deal.
They can't sign a peace treaty with an indicted war criminal.
Milosevic is up for grabs. Let's beat him to the punch.
Let's out microfiche over here. Hard copies with Tina.
Don't let excitement overrun accuracy here. It's just like any other murder case.
The loser dies on the evidence. Let's make it solid.
We've got aerial photographs over Kosovo.
What of?
Looks like refugees being stripped of their identity papers.
They're ground troops confiscating their belongings.
Good.
See if you can ID the unit.
Ah! Still hot, I think. You're a life-saver!
Is there anything else you need me to do - file, photocopy?
I won't screw up, I swear. No.
I need some translation. I think we've got a police commander giving orders here.
Tina? Yeah.
Call HR. We need five more interpreters by tomorrow morning.
I'm on it.
Louise? Over here. What is it?
Satellite images of a grave in progress.
I thought they were burying the bodies.
But, look, they're digging them up.
Thomas? Yes.
Obscuring guilt by moving bodies.
Can we identify those victims?
No. But it looks like freezer trucks they're using.
Hang on. I might have something on that. A transcript just started coming in from the Suva Reka camp.
I think I remember...
Here.
One of the refugees interviewed says he was ordered to dig up some bodies and put them on a freezer truck.
Where was it going?
They didn't know. It says, "I just loaded the truck and it was driven away.
"But the victims were definitely from the Suva Reka massacre."
I want that truck found.
I just found footage from a drone over Suva Reka two days after the massacre.
Incredible detail.
How close can you get?
Stop. It says "poliztia". But he's no cop.
That's an M70 with a folding stock. These guys are special forces.
Milosevic's elite.
Taking away the evidence.
Keep following them.
Where are we? Belgrade.
Give me the Belgrade map.
What the hell are they doing in the capital?
Thomas?
What's this building right here?
You're not going to believe this.
Batajnica Police station. That's where his special forces drink. Yes.
They brought the bodies to Milosevic's own property.
We got him?
Yes.
For crimes against humanity. But we need more evidence for genocide.
We need more time.
And give the politicians time to yank him out from under us?
No. We go forward.
Anybody else feel like indicting a president?
THEY LAUGH
Sub 54. At all times relevant to this indictment...
..Slobodan Milosevic was required to abide by the laws of the Geneva Conventions of 1949.
All conduct charged as crimes against humanity as part of a widespread or systematic
attack directed against the Bosnian Muslim, Bosnian Croat...
..and other non-Serb civilians. ..Pasko?
Now it's just the victim role call.
POPAJ, Abdullah - 18.
AZEMI, Banush - 13.
EMINI, Ajet - 20.
IMERI, Murtez - 2.
JAKUPI, Mehmet - 14...
Your wife's name was Marianna Odzak?
That's the first name we're putting on the list.
Marianna, ODZAK - 29.
OSMANI, Sadik - 35.
RAMADANI, Murat - 16.
'GASHI, Fadil - 46.
'SHEHU, Arif - 36.
'POPAJ, Abdullah - 18...'
Always a pleasure, Judge Arbour.
Today we have history.
Sealed, like the others?
No. This one we go wide.
I think this morning we forgo the coffee for Champagne.
SHE SIGHS
Mr President, I wanted you to be the first to know.
We're going ahead with an unprecedented indictment.
It's my understanding that a cease-fire negotiation might be underway, sir.
Yes.
I'm compelled to let you know, Prime Minister, Slobodan Milosevic
has been officially indicted for crimes against humanity.
So any negotiations that maybe underway right now must...
At noon today,
President Slobodan Milosevic was indicted
on the charge of crimes against humanity.
Specifically, murder
deportations and persecutions
and the violations of the laws and customs of war.
Arrest warrants have been issued and will be served on all member states of the United Nations.
We are still actively investigating other incidents in Kosovo...
..Croatia, Bosnia...
..Bosnia.
And are continuing to develop an evidentiary base upon
which I believe we will be able to expand upon the present charges.
Such a relief to get away from those damn cameras, huh?
I never want to have my picture taken again. Yeah.
But making history will tend to do that.
I have a goodbye gift for you.
Oh. Pasko.
Marianna wore this always.
Gave me one the day I left her and, er...
..told me the next time they were a pair we, um, would be together again.
It doesn't feel right to have them both now.
Please.
I don't know how to say thank you.
Say "hvala".
Hvala.
REPORTER: 'Just before dawn, a convoy of vehicles took the man who ruled Yugoslavia for 13 years to prison.
'The ex-president was taken to Belgrade's central prison.
'There he will be held and questioned while investigators prepare an array of charges including corruption
'to the tune of 100 million...'
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