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Learn more- Florence Hartmann, a French journalist, author, and ex-spokesperson for Carla Del Ponte, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for the ex-Yugoslavia, travels to Holmec - a border crossing between Slovenia and Austria to take part in a round-table discussion. Thirty years ago, one of the first battles in the Yugoslav wars took place at that border crossing. Austrian public television filmed the event. Their footage was later used to promote the narrative of alleged war crimes. Now, thirty years later, former enemies meet again for the first time. Former Slovenian border police commander Otokar Praper, who was defending the border crossing, meets ex-sergeant of the Yugoslav army Husein Sabic, who was leading the attack. The two talk in the bar at the border with other ex-Slovenian policemen, and they step by step analyze the events thirty years in the past. In the meantime, the participants of the round table try to agree on what happened, what is the truth, and where international criminal justice stands today. Dr. Misa Zgonec Rozej at the round table explains that witnesses are important in the proceedings of the criminal process, and ex-members of the Yugoslav People's Army at Holmec, in the meantime, explain that they were not harmed during the phase filmed by ORF when war crimes allegedly took place. Ex-Yugoslav army sergeant Husein Sabic says the same: there were no war crimes at the battle of Holmec. Journalism, it is said, provides the first draft of history, but sometimes the fog of war makes the truth very elusive.
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