War Crimes Tribunal Continue As Enforcement Mechanisms Hinder Progress

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (CITY) and Cambodian war crimes tribunals are among the international criminal tribunals that have experienced new developments with respect to the law of war. On October 20, 2003, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (CITY) indicted two of Serbia?s former top soldiers and the current public security chief of war crimes against Kosovo Albanians in the 1998-99 conflict. During the second week of January 2004, NATO troops raided buildings and homes in Pale, in search of Dr. Radovan Karadzic, a leading war-crimes suspect. As preparations continue for the start of a joint UN-Cambodian tribunal over the genocide and related offenses that resulted in the deaths of 1.7 million people under the rule of the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, Khieu Samphan, 72, in an interview, said he has recently learned about the genocide and pleaded ?ignorance, innocence, shock and contrition.?