U.N Votes to Establish War Crimes Commission

On October 6, 1992, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to establish a war crimes commission to gather evidence of possible atrocities and violations of international criminal law in the former Yugoslavian federation. The decision to create such a commission makes the establishment of an international criminal tribunal very likely. The commission would be based on the Allied War Crimes Commission that was established in 1943 and collected evidence of Nazi atrocities that was used at Nuremberg and in other trials…[more]