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of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals Gary Jonathan
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Blaskic was brought into court in The Hague on June 24, 1997,
flanked by two policemen wearing the baby-blue of the UN. An
unexceptional dark man with wispy thinning black hair and gold
glasses, dressed for the occasion in a gray civilian suit,
Blaskic looked constantly grim. He did not change his expression
as the morning wore on. He gave no hint of emotion, even when
the prosecutor, a square-jawed American draped in a black robe,
described the 1993 sack of Ahmici, a small, innocuous village in
central Bosnia's Lasva Valley.      Blaskic had then been a
colonel and the commander of the Bosnian Croat army's operations
in central Bosnia. In April 1993, Dario Kordic, the young local
Bosnian Croat leader, decided to take the Lasva Valley, a rugged
area populated both by Muslims and Croats. Forces under
Blaskic's command la