I didn't make a penny that day. American Judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald handed down the first sentence by an international criminal court since Nuremberg. She asks me if that's what Americans are interested in. I have no idea. Tribunal spokesman Christian Chartier told me that media interest is on the rise in the former Yugoslavia.
Impunity is no longer acceptable.
Which brings us to the Serbian province of Kosovo. Violence is once again flaring up in the Balkans, and the media are there, understandably, to cover it. But in the midst of it all, the Tribunal, too, had a truly newsworthy day. A Bosnian Croat was sentenced to five years in prison after admitting to executing up to 100 Muslims. But because of Kosovo, there was little media interest.