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What do war criminals, dictators, corrupt politicians, and senior officials have in common? The intoxicating grip of power – the belief that they are untouchable and above the law. Criminal investigator Vladimir Dzuro, a former head of UN Investigative Teams, will talk about his new book that takes readers behind the scenes of global diplomacy at the highest levels.
Published in Czech, the book Vyšetřovatel – zločiny privilegovaných (The Investigator – Crimes of the Privileged) is waiting for its English translation.
Tickets: $7 (plus processing fee), available through Eventbrite. Seats are limited, on a first-come, first-served basis.
About
VLADIMIR DZURO, Emeritus Police Commissioner, served as a Criminal Investigator with the Police of the Czech Republic from 1983 to 1995, first in the Criminal Police Department and later at the National Central Bureau of Interpol in Prague. He took an active part in the work of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the former Yugoslavia (UNPROFOR) in 1994 and, starting in April 1995, served for more than nine years as an investigator with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, Netherlands. Until March 2023, he headed the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) in New York. He currently lectures as a freelancer in the Czech Republic and abroad.
Dzuro’s first book, The Investigator: Demons of the Balkan War, is a firsthand report on the operations that led to the arrest of the first war criminal in the former Yugoslavia, as well as his investigations into numerous war crimes committed in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Part investigative memoir and part real-life thriller, it offers a rare inside perspective on the pursuit of justice in the Yugoslav wars.
This event is organized by the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU), New York Chapter, with the support of BBLA.