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A total of 161 persons were indicted in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Since the arrest of Goran Hadžić on 20 July 2011, there are no indictees remaining at large. This article lists them along with their allegiance, details of charges against them and the disposition of their cases.
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In May 1993 the UN established the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and, in the years following the war, the court brought charges against individuals from every ethnicity and nationality represented in the conflict. Most prominent, however, were cases brought against Serb and Bosnian Serb authorities. Milošević was arrested in 2001 and charged with genocide and crimes against humanity; he died in prison in 2006 before the conclusion of his trial. Karadžić went into hiding in 1997, and he spent more than a decade at large before his arrest in July 2008. In March 2016 he was found guilty of genocide for his role in the Srebrenica massacre, as well as nine other counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Mladić disappeared after Milošević’s arrest in 2001. He was arrested by Serbian authorities in 2011 and placed on trial by the ICTY the following year. In November 2017 he was found guilty of genocide and war crimes and was sentenced to life in prison. In its final case before the expiration of its mandate, the ICTY also found six senior Croatian officials guilty of war crimes and concluded that Tudjman’s government had pursued a criminal policy of ethnic cleansing. When that appellate ruling was read on November 29, Slobodan Praljak, who had been sentenced to 20 years in prison for war crimes committed during the siege of Mostar, loudly declared that he rejected the verdict and drank from a bottle of poison that he had smuggled into the courtroom. The proceedings were immediately suspended, and Praljak died a short time later.
In May 1993 the UN established the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and, in the years following the war, the court brought charges against individuals from every ethnicity and nationality represented in the conflict. Most prominent, however, were cases brought against Serb and Bosnian Serb authorities. Milošević was arrested in 2001 and charged with genocide and crimes against humanity; he died in prison in 2006 before the conclusion of his trial. Karadžić went into hiding in 1997, and he spent more than a decade at large before his arrest in July 2008. In March 2016 he was found guilty of genocide for his role in the Srebrenica massacre, as well as nine other counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Mladić disappeared after Milošević’s arrest in 2001. He was arrested by Serbian authorities in 2011 and placed on trial by the ICTY the following year. In November 2017 he was found guilty of genocide and war crimes and was sentenced to life in prison. In its final case before the expiration of its mandate, the ICTY also found six senior Croatian officials guilty of war crimes and concluded that Tudjman’s government had pursued a criminal policy of ethnic cleansing. When that appellate ruling was read on November 29, Slobodan Praljak, who had been sentenced to 20 years in prison for war crimes committed during the siege of Mostar, loudly declared that he rejected the verdict and drank from a bottle of poison that he had smuggled into the courtroom. The proceedings were immediately suspended, and Praljak died a short time later.
Often described as one of Europe's deadliest armed conflicts since World War II, the Yugoslav Wars were marked by many war crimes, including genocide, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, massacres, and mass wartime rape.
It had jurisdiction over four clusters of crimes committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991: grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, violations of the laws or customs of war, genocide, and crimes against humanity. The maximum sentence that it could impose was life imprisonment.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a United Nations court of law that dealt with war crimes that took place during the conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s. During its mandate, which lasted from 1993 - 2017, it irreversibly changed the landscape of international humanitarian law, provided victims an ...
Dec 19, 2017 · 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...
Jun 30, 2021 · The UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) sentenced 90 war criminals to prison terms before handing off to its successor in 2017.
