Career
Hartmann worked for eleven years for the French daily Le Monde as a journalist in charge of the Balkan desk. From January 1990 until May 1994, she was Le Monde correspondent for the former Yugoslavia. In 1999 she published her first book, Milosevic, la diagonale du fou, reissued by Gallimard in 2002. From October 2000 until October 2006 she was official spokesperson and Balkan adviser to Carla Del Ponte, chief prosecutor of the ICTY at The Hague. Her Paix et châtiment, Les guerres secrètes de la politique et de la justice internationales about the politics of international justice and the functioning of the ICTY and the ICTR was published by Flammarion, Paris, in September 2007.
Florence Hartmann was the first journalist to discover in October 1992 the existence and location of a mass grave at Ovčara (Croatia) containing the remains of 263 people who were taken from Vukovar’s hospital to a nearby farm and killed on 20 November 1991 by Serb forces. On 25 May 2006, she gave evidence before the ICTY in the 'Vukovar massacre case' against three Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) officers, Mile Mrksic, Miroslav Radic and Veselin Sljivancanin indicted in relation to this mass killing.
On 10 December 2011, Florence Hartmann was given a lifetime achievement award for her contribution to the protection and promotion of human rights by the Croatian branch of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights.
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