In November, International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes. This inspired Konflikt, a foreign affairs show on Sweriges Radio, to broadcast a program on war crimes, war criminals and the role of criminal tribunals in international conflicts. The show was broadcasted on December 20.
Slavenka Drakulić talked about her experience of documenting The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) trials for war criminals involved in the Yugoslav war in the 1990s. She described these trials and the phenomenon of “ordinary people” becoming war criminals in her bookThey Would Never Hurt a Fly (also available in Swedish under the title Inte en fluga förnär, translated by Ia Lind).
Other speakers in Konflikt broadcast were professor of international law Said Mahmoudi, Israeli journalists Meron Rapaport and Harry Davies, The Guardian journalist Ziv Nevo Kulman, Israeli ambassador Janina Dill and spokesperson of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fadi El Abdallah.
Konflikt is the leading foreign affairs show on Sveriges Radio, Sweden’s national public service broadcaster. In the past, it featured exclusive interviews by Joseph Stiglitz, Yuval Noah Harari, Marine Le Pen, Giorgio Agamben, Anne Applebaum, Amos Oz, Timothy Garton Ash, and many more.
Listen to the whole broadcast here: https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/arresteringsordern-som-hotar-iccs-framtid