03.06.2007

On February 20-21, Patrick Ball, co-director of the War Crimes Documentation Project implemented by both CEELI and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group in 1999-2002, testified for the prosecution in the Milutinovic trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

Dr. Ball also previously testified for the prosecution in the Milosevic trial. In both trials, his testimony dealt with data collected as part of a CEELI-sponsored project that helped confirm that the Kosovo refugee exodus was not a result of the NATO bombing or Kosovo Liberation Army activity as the defendants in both trials claimed. Dr. Ball's testimony and the underlying CEELI-sponsored study marked a breakthrough in the use of science - and specifically statistics -- in cases involving massive human rights violations and war crimes.

For more information, please contact Jennifer Denton-Jafari, Program Manager for Central and Eastern Europe.