In September 1998, at the end of the Balkan wars, the Serbian military discovered 37 dead bodies in a concrete canal in western Kosovo. Sever years later, the Prime Minister of Kosovo would be falsely accused of their murder.
Ramush Haradinaj was a prominent commander in the Kosovo Liberation Army, a guerilla group which fought for independence from Milosevic's Servia. In 2004, he was elected Prime Minister, but only 100 days into his term he was indicted by a war crimes tribunal for an alleged massacre in 1998.
The film follows the events of the unfolding trial as seen through the eyes of Michael O'Reilly, an Irish lawyer living in Pristina and one of Haradinaj's closest political advisors. O'Reilly assembles a team of international lawyers and investigators determined to rebut what they see as an unjust indictment.
Over the course of the trial O'Reilly and his team expose fundamental weaknesses in the prosecution case theory, arguing that the crime scene is not KLA massacre site, but…
In an address to the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature (2008) John Berger gives a moving reading of Ghassan Khanafani's "Letter from Gaza"
Film: Perry Ogden
Photographs: Stefano Massimo & Rula Halawani
Title Cards: Yves Berger
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