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The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a UN court that prosecuted war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity committed in the former Yugoslavia since 1991. It was established in 1993 and dissolved in 2017, and its successor is the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a court that tried war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Balkans. This article lists the 161 people who were indicted by the ICTY, along with their allegiance, charges, status, sentence and date.
In 1999, during the Kosovo War, Slobodan Milošević was indicted by the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for crimes against humanity in Kosovo. Charges of violating the laws or customs of war , grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions in Croatia and Bosnia and genocide in Bosnia were added a year and a half later.
Ratko Mladić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ратко Младић, pronounced [râtko mlǎːdit͡ɕ]; born 12 March 1942) is a Bosnian Serb former military officer and convicted war criminal who led the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) during the Yugoslav Wars.
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and insurgencies that took place from 1991 to 2001 in the region of the former Yugoslavia. They resulted in the breakup of Yugoslavia into six independent countries, massive deaths and displacements, and war crimes trials.
Slobodan Praljak (Croatian pronunciation: [slobǒdan prǎːʎak]; 2 January 1945 – 29 November 2017) was a Bosnian Croat war criminal who served in the Croatian Army and the Croatian Defence Council, an army of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, between 1992 and 1995.
Learn about Serbia's role in the wars that broke out in the former Yugoslavia from 1991 to 1999, and the consequences for its politics, economy and society. Find out how Serbia supported Serb rebels in Croatia and Bosnia, and faced sanctions, NATO bombing and war crimes trials.
Kren was arrested in 1947 on unrelated charges of war crimes stemming from his subsequent service as the head of the Air Force of the Independent State of Croatia. He was extradited to Yugoslavia to face trial, convicted on all counts, and executed in 1948. A monument erected in Zemun in 1997 commemorates the airmen killed in Belgrade's defence ...