International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

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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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf United Nations court
ad hoc tribunal
international criminal tribunal
abbreviation International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia self-linksurface differs
surface form: 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 War
surface form: 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 Yugoslavia
surface form: former Yugoslavia
resolutionNumber 827
seat The Hague
sharesAppealsChamberWith International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
shortName International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia self-linksurface differs
surface form: ICTY

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia self-linksurface differs
surface form: 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

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Momčilo Perišić subjectOf International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
this entity surface form: International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia proceedings
Momčilo Perišić facedTrialIn International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Dragoljub Ojdanić indictedBy International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia partOf International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia isOrganOf International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Nebojša Pavković legalProceeding International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Nebojša Pavković convictedBy International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Trial Chamber I of the ICTY partOf International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Appeals Chamber of the ICTY partOf International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Appeals Chamber of the ICTY jurisdiction International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Radislav Krstić chargedBy International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Radislav Krstić convictedBy International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Radislav Krstić jurisdictionTriedIn International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
this entity surface form: ICTY, The Hague