The Security Council today stressed the importance of full cooperation by all countries with the work of the United Nations war crimes tribunals dealing with the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
At the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the final witnesses testified today in the sentencing hearing of former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic.
Continuing a trend of eroding relations between the Rwandan Government and the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), a senior delegation from Kigali has cancelled a planned visit to the Arusha-based court.
A former prefect today appeared before the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and pleaded not guilty to charges that he was responsible for the deaths of some 60 Tutsi boys hiding in a church during the country’s genocide in 1994.
The United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) today announced that it has consolidated its two indictments against Gen. Ratko Mladic, one of the most sought-after suspects for war crimes committed during the Bosnia and Herzegovina conflict in the 1990s.
The genocide trial of Slobodan Milosevic was adjourned for the rest of the week, in part due to medical reasons, the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) announced today.
Countries must extend better cooperation in the effort to arrest fugitives wanted by United Nations war crimes tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the chief prosecutor of the courts has told the Security Council.
Calling attention to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia’s failure to cooperate with the United Nations war crimes tribunal, the head of the UN court today asked the Security Council to take “all the measures necessary” to force the country to fully assume its international obligations.
The United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has sentenced a former Bosnian Serb official to five years in prison for war crimes committed in Bosanski Samac.
