| After
the First World War the first truly international criminal tribunal was
envisaged to try perpetrators of crimes committed in this period. After the
Second World War, the Allied powers set up an international tribunal to try
not only war crimes, but crimes against humanity committed under the Nazi
regime. After the beginning of the war in Bosnia, the United Nations Security
Council established the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia (ICTY) in 1993, and, after the genocide in Rwanda, the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in 1994. In 1998, at a
Diplomatic Conference in Rome, the Rome Statute establishing the ICC was
signed.Apart from these institutions, some `hybrid` courts and tribunals
exist - judicial bodies in which both international and national judges are
represented (the Extraordinary Chambers for Cambodia and the war crimes court
at Kosovo). In this unique collection all documents on the War Crimes
Tribunals are being presented. The series now contains of more than 150
volumes and should be present in every library around the world. It is an
official reference item used by professors and professionals around the
world. |
