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International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)

News and expert analyses
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 [...]
19 November 2017 by AFP
The 1990s Balkan wars in key dates Ahead of the judgement Wednesday of Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic, here is a timeline of the 1990s Balkans conflicts that tore apart the former Yugoslavia. - Bickering after Tito dies - Communist Yugoslavia, which emerged s [...]
19 November 2017 by AFP
'Butcher of Bosnia' faces historic war crimes verdict UN war crimes judges will on Wednesday hand down a historic verdict against former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, blamed for steering Europe's worst atrocities since World War II. The judgement and possible sentencing b [...]
23 July 2017 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: International Justice becomes reality, despite the challenges The week just ended began with an anniversary: International Justice Day. Despite criticism  -- both founded and unfounded – and numerous challenges still to be met, international criminal justice will go down in the history of Hu [...]
28 June 2017 by Frédéric Burnand, correspondent in Geneva
Families of 1,658 Kosovo disappeared still searching for their loved ones A two-day conference this week in Geneva aims to relaunch the process of identifying 1,658 people who disappeared during the war in Kosovo (1998-1999). On the eve of the conference, families of Serb and Kosovar victims together ur [...]
7 June 2017 by AFP
Bosnia's glorification of war criminals 'unacceptable': prosecutor Bosnian nationalists are making "unacceptable provocations" by glorifying convicted war criminals and denying crimes from the 1992-1995 war, the UN prosecutor for the former Yugoslavia said Wednesday. Serge Brammertz urged the Sec [...]
30 January 2017 by Franck Petit
French arrest of former Kosovo PM is a “test for Europe” The name of Ramush Haradinaj is again on the lips of European diplomats. This former nightclub bouncer was head of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the war with Serbia in 1998. Emerging victorious from the war, he was seen [...]
18 January 2017 by AFP
Serbia and Kosovo declare war of words A propagandist train, a rising wall and the ghosts of the late 1990s conflict: Serbia and Kosovo are engaged in a disturbing war of symbols and words, unprecedented in recent years. "Kosovo is Serbia" said a message in 20 language [...]
4 December 2016 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
ICTY to hear closing arguments in Mladic case The trial of former Bosnian Serb military boss Ratko Mladic is coming to an end before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The Prosecutor’s closing arguments are due to start on Monday December 5, [...]
22 November 2016 by Basma Elmahdy
Bosnia: "Compensation empowers war crimes survivors", says TRIAL Bringing justice to female survivors of wartime rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina is still a main concern in the field of international justice. “Over 20 years after the end of the conflict, wartime victims are still paying a high pr [...]
12 September 2016 by Dr. Tomasz Lachowski
"We are very far from reconciliation" in the Western Balkans Here we publish a dialogue between Serbian historian Marijana Toma and  Tomasz Lachowski, journalist and legal researcher at the University of Lodz in Poland. Toma is  a former Deputy Executive Director at Humanitarian Law Center [...]
18 August 2016 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
“Access and Security” for Tribunal Archives on Rwanda and ex-Yugoslavia The  UN's Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) has just published its access policy for the records it holds, some of which are classified. These records include all the archives of the International Criminal Trib [...]
18 July 2016 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: Remembering Srebrenica, and the ICC versus Bashir On July 11, the world remembered the massacre committed 21 years ago in Srebrenica, in Bosnia-Herzegovina.  This massacre, which the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has categorized as genocide, is [...]
6 July 2016 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
“Missing Persons Are More Than A Humanitarian Issue” The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP)  was marking its 20th anniversary on July 7 in The Hague, where it recently set up offices. The Commission, established in 1996 on an initiative from President Bill Clinton af [...]
11 April 2016 by François Sergent
The week in review: Kenya's victory? The International Criminal Court’s decision to drop its trial of Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto and journalist Joshua Arap Sang marked the week in transitional justice. According to Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, this “mistrial” is [...]
5 April 2016 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo.net Editorial Adviser and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
ICTY Reflects Strengths and Weaknesses of International Justice The history of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) seems a bit like fiction, with its tales of political pressure, witness intimidation, controversial judgments and the assassination of a Serb Prim [...]
4 April 2016 by François Sergent, Justiceinfo.net
Week in Review: Surprise ICTY Acquittal Upsets a Pattern The International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia’s surprise acquittal of firebrand Serb Vojislav Seselj marked the week in transitional justice, a decision that goes against previous jurisprudence of this UN court. Judges said t [...]
31 March 2016 by AFP
Seselj: firebrand believer in 'Greater Serbia' A Serb academic turned far-right leader, Vojislav Seselj won notoriety during the 1990s Balkan wars for his incendiary rhetoric and remained defiant over more than a decade in detention at The Hague. The stocky and ruddy-faced 61- [...]
31 March 2016 by AFP
UN judges acquit Serb leader Seselj UN war crimes judges Thursday acquitted radical Serb leader Vojislav Seselj on all nine charges of committing atrocities in the 1990s Balkans wars in a surprise verdict swiftly denounced as "shameful" by Croatia The three-judge pa [...]