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Foreword by the former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Antonio Cassese
Antonio Cassese*
Affiliation:
former President International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
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The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (“the International Tribunal”) was established over four years ago in response to the mass killings, widespread and systematic rape and “ethnic cleansing” being practised in the former Yugoslavia on a scale and of a ferocity not seen on the European continent since the end of the Second World War. The United Nations Security Council considered that this situation constituted a threat to international peace and security. It therefore established the International Tribunal as a subsidiary judicial organ, in the belief that this would help halt and redress such violations.

Type
International criminal jurisdiction and international humanitarian law: the Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 37 , Special Issue 321: International criminal jurisdiction and international humanitarian law: the Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda , December 1997 , pp. 601 - 602
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1997

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