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Saturday, January 1, 2000
Volume:
16
Issue:
1
567
Abstract:
Several developments indicate that the International Tribunal for War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia and efforts by national governments continue to implement efforts to adjudicate alleged war crimes.
On December 14, 1999, the Tribunal sentenced Goran Jelisic, 31, who was found guilty on October 19, 1999 of 31 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed while he was a shift commander at the notorious Luka prison camp in northern Bosnia during the Bosnian war, to 40 years in prison, the harshest punishment rendered so far by the Tribunal…[more]