Photo: D. George      July, 2002 In July of 2002, an international court to prosecute war criminals assumes power at the Hague. It's not the first time nations have come together to enforce international laws of war. From the trials of Nazi war criminals, to the prosecution of mass killers in the former Yugoslavia, to traditional justice in Rwanda—how effective is the machinery of international justice? More...

During the war in Kosovo in 1999, war-crimes investigators suspected that Serbian forces were hiding evidence of atrocities by removing bodies of murdered Albanians from graves and execution sites. But until now, no one could say precisely what happened to many of these bodies. This is the story of a secret and grisly operation by Serbian security forces to destroy evidence of possible war crimes in an industrial furnace in northern Kosovo. More...