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International criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

November 2023

  • A Bosnian Muslim woman prays during a funeral ceremony for 30 newly-identified victims in Srebrenica, in July 2023.The burial was part of a memorial ceremony to mark the 28th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, considered the worst atrocity of Bosnia's 1992-95 war.

    Former Yugoslavia countries must face past horrors or risk return to conflict, Council of Europe official says

    Council’s commissioner for human rights says some people prosecuted in the Hague for war crimes ‘return to their communities as heroes’

July 2023

  • Two young African women look through an insect screen over a window

    The RSF are out to finish the genocide in Darfur they began as the Janjaweed. We cannot stand by

    Kate Ferguson
    Peace between Hemedti’s RSF and Sudan’s army will not end war crimes. As UN security council president, Britain must act

June 2021

  • Ratko Mladić at the tribunal in The Hague in August 2020

    Ratko Mladić to hear final ruling on genocide conviction

    Hague court to rule on 10 offences for which ex-Bosnian Serb commander was given life sentence in 2017

July 2020

  • Refugees fleeing Bosnian Serb troops gather at Tuzla airport, eastern Bosnia, in July 1995.

    This is Europe
    I prosecuted Srebrenica war criminals, but I know others are still walking free

    Serge Brammertz
  • General Ratdko Mladic with his Serbian army - in Srebrenica, Yugoslavia

    Srebrenica 25 years on: how the world lost its appetite to fight war crimes

December 2019

  • Norma Major, President Jacques Chirac, John Major and Bernadette Chirac at Chequers in 1995.

    Papers reveal Anglo-French distrust before Srebrenica massacre

    Archives show British PM was warned France may have made secret deal with Bosnian Serbs

March 2019

  • The crowd applauds as the UN court’s sentencing of Radovan Karadžić is broadcast in Sarajevo city hall

    Radovan Karadžić war crimes sentence increased to life in prison

    Former Bosnian Serb leader given longer sentence over his role in bloody conflict

January 2018

  • Judgement in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia<br>epaselect epa06357211 Bosnian Croat, Slobodan Praljak (R) enters the court in The Hague, The Netherlands, 29 November 2017, prior to the appeals judgement in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), for war crimes committed during the bloody break-up of Yugoslavia.  EPA/ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN / POOL

    Hague poisoning: Bosnian Croat general's cyanide impossible to detect – inquiry

    Slobodan Praljak’s suicide was difficult to prevent because the vial was small and intrusive searches are limited, judge says

December 2017

  • Ratko Mladic reacts as he is jailed for life at the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

    The Observer view on the effectiveness of international law

  • Paul Chadwick

    Open door
    Praljak and Goering: the suicides of two war criminals raise questions and tell a story

    Paul Chadwick
  • Slobodan Praljak drinks the cyanide poison.

    Security clampdown at The Hague amid fears of further suicides

  • A woman lights a candle in tribute to Slobodan Praljak in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

    Slobodan Praljak's suicide reopens old wounds in Bosnia

November 2017

  • Slobodan Praljak

    Dutch police launch inquiry into war criminal's courtroom suicide

  • Slobodan Praljak pictured in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1999

    The day I came face to face with General Slobodan Praljak in The Hague

  • Women at the Potocari Memorial Centre during the burial of 534 Muslims killed by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica.

    Genocide charges are just too hard to prove – even in former Yugoslavia

  • Slobodan Praljak, a Bosnian Croat general, enters court in The Hague on Wednesday.

    Bosnian Croat war criminal dies after taking poison in UN courtroom

  • The moments before and after war criminal drinks poison in UN court – video

  • The Guardian view on war crimes trials: justice for Srebrenica’s victims

October 2017

  • Cherif Bassiouni speaking in Bahrain in 2011.

    Cherif Bassiouni obituary

    Legal academic and human rights activist whose work led to the creation of two international criminal courts

December 2016

  • The then commander of the Bosnian Serb army, General Ratko Mladić, in 1994.

    Ratko Mladić must get life sentence, say war crimes prosecutors

    Lawyers at The Hague say any lesser punishment for Bosnian Serb military commander would be ‘insult to his victims’
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