The Adventures of Matt in Holland: Wacky Macedonians

Updates were slow coming this week, they kept me been really busy at the tribunal. I have been assigned to a case that is currently in trial involving a massacre in Macedonia. I can't speak too much about it, because almost all that I do have to be confidential. But, if anyone cares to read the public info about it you can find it here, http://www.un.org/icty/cases-e/index-e.htm scroll down to the Boškoski and Tarčulovski (IT-04-82) case and you can see the indictments and some info about the case. It deals with a small massacre in Macedonia in 2001 that the Minister of the Interior is being charged with responsibility, It has been pretty interesting thus far, lots of violence. It is a far cry from the tweakers and crack heads I dealt with at the Public Defenders office. Other than all that, this week has been quite uneventful. I have been really busy at the tribunal and not done much else. I'll see if I can work more in from now on, for those of you who are living vicariously through me.

Here is the building I work in, it's the ICTY Admin. building. They have the interns down in the basement with one tiny window at the top of one wall. It's like a dungeon in many ways. They don't pay any of us and relegate us to the basements, bloody savages.