Security Council Condemns Yugoslav’s Denial of Visas to War Crimes Tribunal’s Investigators

On November 17, 1998, the U.N. Security Council called on Yugoslavia to allow the U.N. war crimes tribunal into Kosovo to investigate and prosecute human rights abuses and condemned the Yugoslav Government for blocking the arrest of three men the court seeks to try on charges of involvement in massacres in Croatia in 1991. On November 5, 1998, Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, the presiding judge at the Tribunal for War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia criticized Yugoslavia’s denial of visas to U.N. prosecutors seeking to investigate alleged atrocities committed during the eight-month Yugoslavia crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo province.This article follows the recent confrontation between the war crimes tribunal, the U.N., and the Yugoslav Government... [more]