International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

…particularly over cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which indicted several Croatian generals who, according to many Croats, had heroic wartime reputations.

…Yugoslavia and in Rwanda (the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia [ICTY] and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda [ICTR], respectively), and the International Criminal Court (ICC), which began sittings in 2002. In 1992, in reference to the hostilities in Yugoslavia, the UN General Assembly declared ethnic cleansing to…

…Council established separate tribunals, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), both of which contributed to the clarification of the material elements of the offense of genocide as well as of the criteria establishing individual criminal responsibility for its commission.…

After the Bosnian conflict, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) concluded that the killings at Srebrenica, along with the mass expulsion of Bosniak civilians, constituted genocide. The ICTY charged Mladić with genocide and crimes against humanity, stating that he “was a member of a joint criminal enterprise…

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia indicted Plavšić in January 2001, charging that her actions in 1992, as a member of collective presidencies of both Bosnia and the breakaway Serbian Republic of Bosnia, constituted crimes against humanity and that Plavšić actively supported the ethnic…

…in the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda both included rape, making these tribunals among the first international bodies to prosecute sexual violence as a war crime. In a landmark case in 1998, the Rwandan tribunal ruled that “rape and sexual violence constitute genocide.” The International Criminal Court, established…

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia—established before the massacre to scrutinize ongoing military conduct—concluded that the killings at Srebrenica, compounded by the mass expulsion of Bosniak civilians, amounted to genocide. It pinned principal responsibility on senior officers in the Bosnian Serb army. But the…

…Nations Security Council established the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991, commonly known as the ICTY. In November 1994 the UN responded to charges of genocide in Rwanda by creating…

…with the United Nations’ (UN) International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, which had been established after the Yugoslav civil wars of the 1990s. Together with Zoran Djindjić, the prime minister of Serbia, Živković played a major role in handing indicted war criminals, such as Milošević,…