Association of Defence Counsel practising before the International Courts and Tribunals

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Since the beginning of the outbreak of the Yugoslav Civil War (1991-1995), this conflict has occupied the international community. On 25 September 1991, the UN Security Council adopted its first resolution on the conflict. In Resolution 713, the Security Council expressed its concerns regarding the violations of the ceasefire of 17 and 22 September 1991. [2] In Resolution 764 of 13 July 1992, the Security Council expressed its displeasure at the many violations of war law and warned that the perpetrators of war crimes were individually responsible for their acts. [3] On 13 August 1992, the Security Council adopted resolution 771. In this resolution he again condemned the many violations of international humanitarian law and in particular the many violations involving civilians. The Security Council specifically condemned those who had committed ethnic cleansing and called on all parties to immediately stop all fighting. [4] On 6 October 1992, the Security Council adopted Resolution 780 calling on UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to establish an independent committee of experts charged with gathering and making findings on violations of war law in the conflict. [5] One of the recommendations of the committee of experts was the establishment of an international tribunal charged with prosecuting violations of the laws of war. [6] Following this report, the Security Council decided on 22 February 1993 in Resolution 808 to set up the Yugoslavia Tribunal. The Security Council instructed the Secretary-General to come forward with a proposal for the statute of this tribunal. [7] On 3 May 1993 the Secretary-General published the report containing the statute for the Yugoslavia Tribunal. On 25 May 1993, the Security Council ratified the Statute in Resolution 827, which established the establishment of the Yugoslavia Tribunal. [9] The tribunal was established in The Hague, and was largely based on the general principles of law of nations and international custom. The tribunal is housed in the Aegon building on Churchillplein, which has been purchased by the UN. The building was designed by architect Ad van der Steur (1951-1953) for the insurer EN / NEN, later Ennia, a legal predecessor of Aegon. The tribunal consists of three chambers and one chamber of appeal. The official languages ​​in the courtroom are English and French, with the help of interpreters where necessary. Witnesses and suspects are allowed to speak in their own language and all documents are available in Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian. The tribunal seeks three issues: stopping war crimes, punishing war criminals, and preventing violations of international humanitarian law. In the end it was decided that the highest punishment it can impose is lifelong. When imprisonment has been imposed, the judges then choose a country where the convicted person must serve his sentence. The country is selected from a list of countries that have indicated their willingness to do so.

If you are in the Hague you have to look over here, you only know it from the media but locally .... Wow

Perhaps in this courthouse, Milosevic was tried. There are a lot of ships in The Hague, they are regionally divided in one Africa, Europeans are judged in another.