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By YP cadet Miuccia Chan
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Women demonstrate outside the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, The Netherlands, ahead of Radovan Karadžić verdict.Full name
International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia
Established
May 1993
Purpose
To prosecute criminals who have committed serious atrocities violating international humanitarian law since 1991 in the territory of former Yugoslavia during the Yugoslav Wars
The basics:
Located in The Hague, Netherlands
An ad hoc court under the United Nations
Maximum sentence it can impose: life imprisonment (there has yet to be such a sentence)
A total of 161 accused, 30 of which convicted and sentenced
Deals with:
Breaches of the Geneva Conventions
Violations of the laws/customs of war
Genocide
Crime against humanity
Ongoing cases (as of March 2016):
Ratko Mladić
Vojislav Šešelj
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