Slobodan Milošević

Do war crime tribunals deliver justice? Student ID: 2328581 Introduction The Bosnian war in the early 1990s engendered ethnic cleansing, genocide, and other crimes against humanity. Under such context of international climate, nearly fifty years after the Nuremburg and Tokyo trials, the United Nations created the ad hoc international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda (ICTs) to prosecute individuals suspected of committing war crimes regardless of their official positions

the war, Bosnia was not only the most ethnically integrated Yugoslavian republic, it was the poster-child of a multi-ethnic society in which various ethnicities not only coexisted but rather intermingled. This peaceful coexistence was disrupted by Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia 's president, who used Yugoslavia 's economic and political crisis of 1988 in his favour by essentializing the crisis along the lines of ethnic national identity. Through his