A good interpreter is an invisible interpreter

_{The Yugoslav Wars were Europe’s deadliest conflicts since World War II: nearly a decade of fighting, more than 130.000 dead. In 1993, amid the atrocities, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 808, establishing the Yugoslavia Tribunal, the first war crimes court ever created by the UN. It would take 24 years and more than 10.800 trial days to bring its 161 indictees to justice.}

_{Journalist Jorie Horsthuis and photographer Martino Lombezzi have been reporting on the Balkans since the early 2000s. For Resolution 808: Inside the Yugoslavia Tribunal, they followed the court from within. In words and images they documented the people, places and objects at the heart of the trials, gaining access to an institution that kept its doors closed for many years, and capturing voices and accounts that might otherwise have gone unheard. Their work appears as a book and a series of exhibitions.}

_{Here we publish a chapter from Resolution 808: Inside the Yugoslavia Tribunal, published by The Eriskay Connection, written by Horsthuis, alongside the photography of Lombezzi. It is the story of the Tribunal’s translators and interpreters: the people through whom every word of testimony had to pass.}

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