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Divided We Stand? The AD HOC Tribunals and the CEE Region

Part of: International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda: Broadening the Debate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Veronika Bílková
Veronika Bílková*
Affiliation:
Institute of International Relations in Prague
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After WWII, countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) actively backed the establishment of the military tribunals in Nuremberg and Tokyo. In the early 1990s, when the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and for Rwanda (ICTR) were created by the UN Security Council, the CEE countries again lent uniform, albeit largely rhetorical support to these institutions. A quarter of a century later, this uniformity seems to be gone. While the CEE countries continue to express belief in international criminal justice, they no longer agree with each other on whether this justice has actually been served by the ad hoctribunals. The diverging views on the achievements of the ICTY and ICTR might also partly account for the differences in the approach to the permanent International Criminal Court (ICC), though the grounds for these differences are more complex.

Type
Symposium on the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda: Broadening the Debate
Information
AJIL Unbound , Volume 110 , 2016 , pp. 240 - 244
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2016

References

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2 Id.

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4 UN Scor, 49th Sess., 3453d mtg., UN Doc. S/PV.3453(Nov. 8,1994).

5 See 1993-1994 Y.B. Pol. Foreign Pol’y (1994).

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7 Id.

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