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International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)

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The UN tribunal and the Balkan wars

All our articles on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Located in The Hague in the Netherlands, it was active from 1993 to 2017, with the main objective of trying serious violations of international humanitarian law (including the crime of genocide) in the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991, during the wars in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo.

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Stanisic and Simatovic trial - The 2 war criminals Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic at their appeal trial in The Hague (UN-IRMCT).
After 30 years, the UN court’s last verdict on former Yugoslavia
2 June 2023 by Molly Quell
It took a record 20 years for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia – created in May 1993 and later replaced by “the Mechanism” – to complete the trial of two former Serbian spy masters. Arrested in 2003 [...]
Stanisic and Simatovic at the UN tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague Stanisic and Simatovic: slim convictions in longest running Yugoslav trial
1 July 2021 by Stephanie van den Berg
On June 30, a former head of Serbian state security and his subordinate were convicted for crimes in just one Bosnian town, and sentenced to 12 years in jail. But this retrial in the longest Yugoslav case before the UN court in Th [...]
Ratco Mladic 26 years after the Bosnia war, Mladic case ends
8 June 2021 by Stephanie van den Berg
Today Ratko Mladic, 78, will hear the final decision in the case against him. In 2017 the former head of the Bosnian Serb army was found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes by the UN International Criminal T [...]
Trial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic Last trial, last chance at the U.N. court for the former Yugoslavia
19 April 2021 by Stephanie van den Berg
The retrial of two former Serbian spy masters is the last trial that the U.N. court for the former Yugoslavia and its successor institution, the Residual Mechanism, will hold about the 1990s conflicts that ravaged the former Yugos [...]
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20 March 2019 by AFP
Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic's sentence increased to life A maximum penalty sentence concludes one of the biggest, longest and most important cases of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Judges of the UN mechanism that deals with the ICTY remaining cases [...]
19 March 2019 by Stephanie van den Berg
Karadzic: last chapter of a mega trial at the Yugoslav tribunal On Wednesday, Bosnian Serb wartime political leader Radovan Karadzic, 73, will hear if his 40-year-jail term is confirmed, increased to a life sentence as prosecutors demand or if he gets the retrial his lawyers are seeking. This [...]
29 October 2018 by Stephanie van den Berg
Damaging power struggle engulfs the former ICTY Judges at the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (MICT), the successor institution of the UN tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, have become embroiled in a very public power struggle which is already impact [...]
21 June 2018 by Frédéric Burnand, correspondent in Geneva
"Recognizing sexual violence in conflict is part of sexual equality" Better fighting sexual violence in conflict, prosecuting perpetrators more efficiently and strengthening judicial procedures so that victims can get justice and reparation – this was the focus of a conference organized in Geneva b [...]
31 May 2018 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
UN schizophrenia and the choice of international judges International criminal justice puts forward the idea of universal, detached justice delivered by judges who are themselves completely independent and impartial because they are not part of the reality of societies at war whose cri [...]
23 April 2018 by AFP
Karadzic urges UN judges to throw out war crimes conviction Once-feared Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic Monday urged UN judges to overturn his conviction for war crimes during the Balkans conflict, and either acquit him or order a new trial. Appearing at the start of his two-day appea [...]
1 February 2018 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
Will contested Kosovo tribunal ever get off the ground? Is the Kosovo war crimes tribunal dead before it even begins? Parliamentarians close to the country’s President and Prime Minister are trying to sabotage it. Meanwhile Switzerland has granted it funding support. In January 2018, S [...]
21 December 2017 by Human Rights Watch
How the Yugoslav Tribunal Made History, according to HRW Bullet holes, bloodstains and brain matter marked the walls of an empty barn, a crime scene processed to document the worst crime in Europe since the Second World War: the deliberate killings of more than 7,000 men and boys from t [...]
9 December 2017 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: ICC debates “crime of aggression” as Yemen suffers and Croatia denies The International Criminal Court’s annual meeting of 123 member countries started this week at the United Nations in New York. This year’s Assembly of States Parties (ASP) is discussing, among other things, whether the "crime of a [...]
29 November 2017 by AFP
Chaos at UN court as Bosnian Croat defendant 'takes poison' and dies The UN war crimes court for former Yugoslavia descended into chaos during it last judgement Wednesday when a defendant took poison to protest the upholding of his 20-year jail term. Bosnian Croat war criminal Slobodan Praljak died [...]
27 November 2017 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Victory for justice in Bosnia, and stigmatized girls in the DRC The life sentence on Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic by the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was widely hailed as a victory for international law and justice. Mladic was found guilty of genocid [...]
23 November 2017 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Historic judgment on Bosnian Serb military chief Mladic Handing down its judgment on November 22, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) found former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic guilty of genocide in Srebrenica, crimes against humanity and wa [...]
22 November 2017 by AFP
Mladic genocide verdict hailed as victory for justice UN judges on Wednesday sentenced former Bosnian Serbian commander Ratko Mladic to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of genocide and war crimes in the brutal Balkans conflicts over two decades ago. But the man dubbed "The [...]
21 November 2017 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Key verdict due on Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is preparing to hand down on November 22 its verdict on Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic. Given the ICTY’s previous convictions of his main associates i [...]
20 November 2017 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Ex-Yugoslavia would be worse off without UN Court, says ICTY Prosecutor On November 22, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yougoslavia (ICTY) is to hand down its verdict on Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic. This is the last verdict in a trial court of the Tribunal, which wa [...]
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