UN war crimes court moved to Sarajevo to preserve tribunal’s legacy
Sarajevo — A UN war crimes courtroom in which a Bosnian Serb general was prosecuted for atrocities committed during the siege of Sarajevo has been moved to the Bosnian capital to preserve the legacy of the first attempt to hold war criminals to account since World War 2. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which closed down in 2017after prosecuting 161 suspects for crimes committed during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, had agreed to move the original courtroom and archives to Sarajevo, where 11,000 people were killed during the siege. "Sarajevo is the first city after Nuremberg which has the original courtroom of an international criminal tribunal and ... a possibility to witness its mandate," said Mila Eminovic, the head of the ICTY Information Centre in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The aim is to establish similar centres in Serbia and Croatia. When the ICTY was set up in 1993, it was the first serious attempt to hold war criminals responsible ...
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