Deadly propaganda – fake news in a post-conflict environment

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The operation that Dzuro expected at Interpol never came. He then started looking for other opportunities, which led him to the war ongoing in the former Yugoslavia. There, he was responsible for investigating war crimes for the United Nations tribunal.

Examining the background of the conflict led the investigator, among other things, to fake news and its impact on the lives and actions of people living in conflict and post-conflict environments. For example, a false report in Serbian media in 1994 resulted in around eight and a half thousand deaths. Another fake news story cost the life of an eight-year-old child whose only goal was to get batteries for his walkman.

“It wasn’t an invasion war, like World War II when Germany attacked Europe. This was a war of neighbors. In my opinion, that’s far more terrifying because people who had lived together in peace since the end of World War II, marrying each other, celebrating Orthodox and Catholic Christmas and Muslim holidays, suddenly took up arms and started killing each other,” says Vladimír Dzuro.

Who is Vladimír Dzuro?

Vladimír Dzuro, emeritus police councilor, was born in Kladno and spent his childhood in Buštěhrad. From 1983 to 1995, he worked as a criminal investigator for the Police of the Czech Republic, first with the Criminal Police in Prague 10 and later at the National Interpol Center in Prague. In 1994, he actively participated in the work of UN peacekeeping forces in the former Yugoslavia (UNPROFOR), and from April 1995 he served for more than nine years as an investigator for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, Netherlands. He currently leads the office of the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services in New York.

For his many years of successful work for the International Tribunal, he received the Medal for Service to International Justice, and the police president awarded him the Police of the Czech Republic Plaque and subsequently the Honorary Medal for his lasting contribution to building and promoting the good name of the Police of the Czech Republic.

His unique personal testimony is presented in both print and audio formats in the book The Investigator – Demons of the Balkan War and Secular Justice, which Vladimír Dzuro wrote. In November 2019, its English version was published in the United States under the title The Investigator – Demons of the Balkan War. warcrimeinvestigator.com