International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

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United Nations court ad hoc tribunal international criminal tribunal

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia was a UN court established to prosecute individuals responsible for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide committed during the conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s.

Aliases (3)

ICTY ×2
International Criminal Tribunal buildings ×1
UN Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ×1

Statements (57)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United Nations court → ad hoc tribunal → international criminal tribunal →
abbreviation	ICTY →
completionStrategyAdoptedBy	United Nations Security Council →
completionStrategyResolution	UN Security Council Resolution 1503 → UN Security Council Resolution 1534 →
dateEstablished	1993-05-25 →
dateOfLastJudgment	2017-11-29 →
doesNotTryStates	true →
establishedBy	United Nations Security Council →
establishedByResolution	UN Security Council Resolution 827 →
firstAccusedTried	Duško Tadić →
firstIndictmentIssued	1994 →
firstTrialStarted	1996 →
focusesOnConflicts	Bosnian War → Croatian War of Independence → Kosovo conflict → Yugoslav Wars →
formallyClosedOn	2017-12-31 →
hasChambers	Appeals Chamber → Trial Chambers →
hasJurisdictionOver	territory of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia →
hasPrecedentRole	development of international criminal jurisprudence →
hasTemporalJurisdictionFrom	1991-01-01 →
hasTemporalJurisdictionTo	unspecified end date →
legalBasis	Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter →
locatedIn	The Hague →
locatedInCountry	Netherlands →
mandateIncludes	prosecution of crimes against humanity → prosecution of genocide → prosecution of grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions → prosecution of war crimes →
notableCaseInvolves	Ante Gotovina → Duško Tadić → Radovan Karadžić → Ratko Mladić → Slobodan Milošević →
officialLanguage	Bosnian → Croatian → English → French → Serbian →
parentOrganization	United Nations →
regionServed	former Yugoslavia →
resolutionNumber	827 →
seat	The Hague →
sharesAppealsChamberWith	International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda →
shortName	ICTY → UN Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia →
statuteAdoptedBy	United Nations Security Council →
statuteName	Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia →
successorInstitution	International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals →
triesIndividualsOnly	true →
typeOfLawApplied	international criminal law → international humanitarian law →
website	http://www.icty.org →

Referenced by (16)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Kosovo Liberation Army → Račak massacre →	investigatedBy
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ("ICTY") → International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ("UN Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia") →	shortName
Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide → Article III of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide →	usedBy
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ("ICTY") →	abbreviation
Prosecutor v. Krstić (ICTY) →	court
Slobodan Milošević →	extraditedTo
Slobodan Milošević →	facedTrialIn
International Criminal Court →	hasPredecessorConcept
United Nations Security Council →	hasSubsidiaryBody
World Forum, The Hague ("International Criminal Tribunal buildings") →	nearby
Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro (ICJ, 2007) →	relatedTo
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda →	sharesAppealsChamberWith
Croatia v. Serbia (ICJ, 2015) →	usedEvidenceFrom