Yugoslav War Crimes Prosecutor Rejects Petitions to Investigate NATO’s Conduct (XID)

On June 2, 2000, Carla Del Ponte, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), announced that no basis exists for a formal investigation into whether NATO committed war crimes during the bombing campaign of Yugoslavia. Del Ponte explained to the U.N. Security Council that, although NATO made mistakes, her office was satisfied that NATO did not engage in deliberate targeting of civilians or unlawful military targets during the bombing campaign…[more]