The TRIBUNAL by Peter B. Robinson

Author:Peter B. Robinson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0-595-75578-X

CHAPTER 16

That night, Kevin and Diane walked down the street to pick up Ellen at her friend’s house. She was not exactly happy to see them. “Can’t I play longer? Why do you always come on time? Don’t you know what it means to be fashionably late?”

Kevin brushed off the cool welcome. “I’m glad you’re having such a good time, but I haven’t seen you all day.”

“I haven’t seen Katie for two weeks,” Ellen protested as she came outside to walk home with Kevin and Diane.

Ellen soon forgot her complaint. “I’m going to listen to Harry Potter,” she said as she walked between Kevin and Diane. “I’ve been dying to start the tapes since Christmas.” She had gotten the four Harry Potter stories on tape for Christmas.

If the CIA decides to bug our house, Kevin thought, they’re going to get an earful of Harry Potter.

It was dark when the Andersons turned onto their street and walked the last block to their house. Kevin heard a car come up from behind and was startled when it slowed to a stop alongside him and his family. The car was a large dark colored Mercedes and appeared to be occupied by only the driver. Kevin squinted to make out the driver’s face. Diane had stopped, grabbed Ellen by the hand, and pulled Ellen towards her.

“Mr. Anderson.” Kevin recognized the man now. It was Zoran Vacinovic. “I was in the neighborhood. Do you have a few minutes?”

“Sure. Why don’t you park your car and come in?”

Vacinovic pulled over to the curb while Kevin rejoined Diane and Ellen.

“It’s the man from the Serbian Embassy. I need to talk to him.”

“He’s always ‘just in the neighborhood,’” Diane noted skeptically.

Vacinovic patted Ellen on the head when they all walked into the Anderson’s row house. “Please excuse the interruption on your time with your father.”

“That’s okay,” she replied brightly. “I’m going to start listening to my Harry Potter tapes anyway.”

Kevin led Vacinovic up to his office on the second floor, while Ellen and Diane stayed downstairs.

“That’s quite a girl. You must be very proud of her.”

“I am.” Kevin closed the door. “What’s on your mind?”

“I just wanted to talk to you before the trial started next week. As I have told you, it is very important to my country that a full record be made of the atrocities committed against the Serbs.”

“But, Mr. Vacinovic,” Kevin replied, “there is no way the court will allow me to introduce evidence of war crimes against Serbs to justify war crimes that they committed in return. The Tribunal has already specifically rejected this defense. An eye for an eye may have been the law on the battlefields of Bosnia, but it is not the law in the courtrooms of The Hague.”

“They just want to trick you into playing by their rules. But in the court of public opinion, the atrocities committed against the Serbs over many years more than justify what was done. That is how Draga should be defended.”

Kevin could see that Vacinovic was agitated.

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