When Interpol Comes Calling…™
International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
The ICTY was established by the United Nations Security Council Resolution 827 in 1993 for the purpose of adjudicating serious violations of international human rights law that occurred in the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991. The ICTY Statute criminalizes the human rights violations of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The ICTY completion strategy calls for finality of all trials and appeals by 2010.
Jurisdiction
By statute, the ICTY may prosecute individuals responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991.
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Subject Matter Jurisdiction
The ICTY may try a case brought under any of the crimes listed in its statute. Those crimes are limited to genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
Temporal Jurisdiction
The ICTY may exercise jurisdiction over any crimes committed since 1991.
Personal Jurisdiction
The ICTY may prosecute any natural individual.
Territorial Jurisdiction
The ICTY may investigate and try cases concerning events occurred in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.
The ICTY may not investigate, indict, or try an individual for crimes not specified in its statute. There are three international, statutory crimes named in the ICTY statute: genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
- Genocide
War Crimes
Crimes Against Humanity
Statute of the Tribunal (04/2004)
Rules of Procedure and Evidence (rev. 36, Jul. 21, 2005)
Practice Direction on Formal Requirements for Appeals from Judgment (Mar. 07, 2005)
ICTY Fugitives Poster, Dec. 8, 2005
Indictments
Genocide
Prosecutor v. Slobodan Milosevic: Kosovo (Oct. 29, 2001), Bosnia (Apr. 21, 2004), and Croatia (Jul. 28, 2004) (Genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity)
War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
Prosecutor v. Ivan Cermak and Mladen Marcak, Dec. 15, 2005
Prosecutor v. Ante Gotovina, Feb. 24, 2004
Decisions and Judgments
Acquittals
Genocide
War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
Specially Noted for Rule-Making
Prosecutor v. Tihomir Blaskic, Case No. IT-95-14-A R108bis, Judgement on the Request of the Republic of Croatia for Review of Trial Chamber II of 18 July 1997, October 29, 1997. This decision by the Appeals Chamber establishes the rule of law that the ICTY may issue binding orders to states with regard to surrender and transfer requests. This authority may be enforced by referring a matter of state noncompliance to the United Nations Security Council.