The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia closed in 2017, but cases that remained have since been taken over by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. That institute issued a verdict today for the very last time.
The two convicted suspects were initially sentenced to 12 years in prison, with a few more years added on appeal. Those convicted are the former chief of Milosevic’s state security service, Jovica Stanisic (72), and his deputy Franko Simatovic (73). The two were arrested in 2003.
Founded in 1993
The convictions officially bring an end to the special tribunal, where key players of the ravaging war in the Balkans have been sentenced.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia was established in 1993 by the United Nations (UN). The wars in the Western Balkans continued for years afterwards. Whether the war criminals would also be caught was the question for a long time. The criminal court eventually successfully prosecuted key players, such as Yugoslav president Milosevic, although he was never convicted because he died in his cell.
161 convictions
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his general Ratko Mladic, known as the butcher of Srebrenica, were sentenced to life in prison.
A total of 161 people were prosecuted before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. A striking conviction was that of the Croatian former general Slobodan Praljak. He died because he took poison after hearing his verdict.
2023-05-31 21:10:43
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