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Monday, October 1, 2001
Volume:
17
Issue:
10
433
Abstract:
After a relatively slow start, the Tribunal for War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has a full slate of business with new arrests of high-level officials, trials, and various motions.
On August 2, 2001 the ICTY convicted a Bosnian Serb general of genocide for overseeing the 1995 massacre of as many as 8,00 Muslim men and boys after Bosnian Serb forces overwhelmed the United Nations-declared “safe haven” of Srebrenica. The verdict was the first formal conviction of genocide from the conflict in the former Yugoslavia and followed a 16-month trial…[more]