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- Title
CROATIAN AND SERBIAN WAR CRIMES, THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, AND THE JUDICIAL SYSTEMS OF SERBIA AND CROATIA.
- Authors
HEBDA, WIKTOR
- Abstract
The war in former Yugoslavia (1991–1995) was marked by war crimes which still affect Serbian–Croatian political relations. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which operated between 1993–2017, was supposed to pass fair verdicts on those responsible for war crimes, but its verdicts have been surrounded by controversy in Post-Yugoslav states. The article analyzes Serbian and Croatian war crimes in Croatian territory between 1991–1995 as well as the verdicts passed by the ICTY against the most prominent war criminals. The actions taken by the Serbian and Croatian judicial systems are also discussed. The analysis presented in the article indicates that the verdicts delivered by the ICTY were selective and difficult to accept for both sides of the conflict. Unfortunately, Serbo-Croatian cooperation on war crimes has been developing for only a few years and has not produced the expected results. For these reasons, war crimes and war criminals still have a negative influence on political and social relations between the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Serbia.
- Subjects
CROATIA; SERBIA; WAR crimes; INTERNATIONAL Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991; JUSTICE administration; INTERNATIONAL courts; CRIME; WAR criminals; PERSIAN Gulf War, 1991
- Publication
Nationalities Affairs / Sprawy Narodowosciowe, 2020, Issue 52, p1
- ISSN
1230-1698
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.11649/sn.2050