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in 1993 to prosecute individuals responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory of the former [Yugoslavia](https://www.edgepedia.org/yugoslavia) since 1991. The UN had never before created a court for war crimes, and no international tribunal of this kind had existed since those set up at [Nuremberg](https://www.edgepedia.org/nuremberg) and Tokyo following World War II.[1](https://www.icty.org/en/about/tribunal/establishment) The Tribunal closed on 31 December 2017, and its remaining functions passed to the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT).[2](https://www.irmct.org/sites/default/files/documents/S_2025_749-EN_0.pdf)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Established | 25 May 1993, by Security Council resolution 827, adopted under Chapter VII of the UN Charter; the resolution contained the ICTY Statute[1](https://www.icty.org/en/about/tribunal/establishment) • [3](https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/icty/icty.html) |\n| Jurisdiction | Natural persons responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law in the territory of the former Yugoslavia from 1 January 1991 onward[3](https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/icty/icty.html) |\n| Crimes | Grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, violations of the laws or customs of war, genocide, and crimes against humanity[4](https://www.unictri.irmct.org/en/about/tribunal/mandate-and-crimes-under-icty-jurisdiction) |\n| Relationship to national courts | Concurrent jurisdiction with national courts, but the ICTY had primacy and could formally request national courts to defer to its competence[3](https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/icty/icty.html) |\n| First judges | Eleven judges elected by the General Assembly on 17 September 1993; took office at the inaugural session on 17 November 1993[3](https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/icty/icty.html) |\n| Closure | 31 December 2017; residual functions continued by the IRMCT, established by resolution 1966 (2010)[2](https://www.irmct.org/sites/default/files/documents/S_2025_749-EN_0.pdf) |\n| Combined convictions | The ICTY and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda together convicted 155 people for atrocity crimes[5](https://apnews.com/article/cf27513aa30be098c45e6b2d654deec3) |\n\n## Establishment\n\nThe [Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia](https://www.edgepedia.org/socialist-federal-republic-of-yugoslavia) dissolved in 1992 after a series of economic and political crises, and the early 1990s brought brutal conflicts first in Croatia and then in [Bosnia and Herzegovina](https://www.edgepedia.org/bosnia-and-herzegovina), followed by armed conflicts in Kosovo in 1998–99 and in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in 2001.[1](https://www.icty.org/en/about/tribunal/establishment) Reports of massacres of civilians, rape and torture in detention camps, cities under siege, and the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of people moved the UN in late 1992 to establish a Commission of Experts to examine the situation on the ground. The Commission documented grave breaches of the [Geneva Conventions](https://www.edgepedia.org/geneva-conventions) and other violations of international humanitarian law, and its findings led the Security Council to decide to establish an international tribunal.[1](https://www.icty.org/en/about/tribunal/establishment)\n\nInvoking Chapter VII of the UN Charter, the Security Council endorsed the Secretary-General's report and, through resolution 827 of 25 May 1993, created a court to try those accountable for grave breaches of international humanitarian law committed within the former Yugoslavia's territory beginning 1 January 1991. The resolution contained the Tribunal's Statute, which set out its jurisdiction, organization, and criminal procedure in general terms.[3](https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/icty/icty.html) The General Assembly elected the Tribunal's first eleven judges on 17 September 1993, from a list nominated by the Security Council; the judges took office at the inaugural session on 17 November 1993. The Rules of Evidence and Procedure were adopted in February 1994, and the Rules of Detention in May 1994.[3](https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/icty/icty.html)\n\n## Jurisdiction and crimes\n\nThe Tribunal's temporal jurisdiction ran from 1 January 1991, and its territorial jurisdiction covered the territory of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, including its land surface, airspace, and territorial waters.[6](https://www.icty.org/x/file/Legal%20Library/Statute/statute_sept09_en.pdf) It had jurisdiction over individual persons only, not over organizations, political parties, army units, administrative entities, or other legal subjects.[4](https://www.unictri.irmct.org/en/about/tribunal/mandate-and-crimes-under-icty-jurisdiction) It had no authority to prosecute states for aggression or crimes against peace, which fall within the jurisdiction of the [International Court of Justice](https://www.edgepedia.org/international-court-of-justice).[4](https://www.unictri.irmct.org/en/about/tribunal/mandate-and-crimes-under-icty-jurisdiction)\n\nArticles 2 to 5 of the Statute defined four categories of crime: grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, such as wilful killing, torture, and unlawful deportation of civilians; violations of the laws or customs of war, including attacks on undefended towns and destruction of historic monuments; genocide as defined in the 1948 [Genocide Convention](https://www.edgepedia.org/genocide-convention); and crimes against humanity, including murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, torture, rape, and persecution on political, racial, or religious grounds when directed against a civilian population in armed conflict.[6](https://www.icty.org/x/file/Legal%20Library/Statute/statute_sept09_en.pdf)\n\n**Individual responsibility.** Article 7 of the Statute made a person individually responsible who planned, instigated, ordered, committed, or otherwise aided and abetted a crime within the Tribunal's jurisdiction. The official position of an accused, whether as Head of State or Government or as a responsible Government official, did not relieve that person of criminal responsibility or mitigate punishment. A superior who knew or had reason to know that a subordinate was about to commit such crimes and failed to prevent or punish them was also responsible, and acting on superior orders did not relieve an accused of responsibility, though it could be considered in mitigation.[6](https://www.icty.org/x/file/Legal%20Library/Statute/statute_sept09_en.pdf)\n\n**Primacy.** Although the ICTY and national courts had concurrent jurisdiction, the Tribunal had primacy and could formally request national courts to defer to its competence at any stage of proceedings. Article 29 placed a binding obligation on states to cooperate with the Tribunal's investigations and prosecutions.[3](https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/icty/icty.html)\n\n## Organization and investigations\n\nThe Tribunal consisted of three organs: the Chambers, comprising three Trial Chambers and an Appeals Chamber; the [Prosecutor](https://www.edgepedia.org/prosecutor); and a Registry servicing both.[6](https://www.icty.org/x/file/Legal%20Library/Statute/statute_sept09_en.pdf) The Chambers were composed of a maximum of sixteen permanent independent judges, no two of whom could be nationals of the same State, plus ad litem judges appointed for specific trials.[6](https://www.icty.org/x/file/Legal%20Library/Statute/statute_sept09_en.pdf)\n\n[The Prosecutor](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-prosecutor)'s office faced practical obstacles from the start. Some regional authorities refused to accept the Tribunal as legitimate and barred investigators from crime scenes and witnesses, at times even when the alleged offenses had victimized people of their own state. [The Office](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-office) of the Prosecutor assessed whether the evidence collected would support the charges in an indictment and how an accused's actions fit into the structure of the crimes within the Tribunal's jurisdiction; sealed indictments were one investigative tool, as in the 1999 arrest in Vienna of the late general Momir Talić.[7](https://www.icty.org/en/content/investigations)\n\n## Completion strategy and closure\n\nThe ICTY was established as a temporary institution at a time when the domestic judicial systems in the former Yugoslavia were not able or willing to prosecute these crimes themselves. By 2003 the Tribunal was operating at full capacity, and its judges devised a completion strategy endorsed by the Security Council in resolutions 1503 and 1534. Under this plan, investigations were to be finished by late 2004, all first-instance trials were to wrap up by the close of 2008, and the Tribunal's work as a whole was to conclude in 2010. Investigations were completed on schedule by 31 December 2004, but the later dates had to be revised, in part because the last fugitive, Goran Hadžić, was arrested only on 20 July 2011, and because of the complexity of certain cases and the health of detainees.[8](https://www.icty.org/en/about/tribunal/completion-strategy)\n\nThe strategy focused the Tribunal on the most senior leaders suspected of responsibility and transferred cases against intermediate and lower-level accused to competent national jurisdictions. Specialised mechanisms for war crimes prosecutions were set up in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Croatia, and the ICTY advised on legislative reform in areas such as command responsibility and witness protection, transferred evidentiary materials, and made its electronic databases and archives available to national institutions.[8](https://www.icty.org/en/about/tribunal/completion-strategy)\n\nSecurity Council resolution 1966 of 22 December 2010 established the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals to continue the jurisdiction, rights, obligations, and essential functions of the ICTY and the [International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda](https://www.edgepedia.org/international-criminal-tribunal-for-rwanda), which closed in 2017 and 2015 respectively. [The Mechanism](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-mechanism) began operating on 1 July 2013 for the ICTY branch and 1 July 2012 for the ICTR branch, and it can conduct retrials, appeals from ICTY and ICTR cases, trials for contempt and false testimony, and review proceedings, but it cannot raise new indictments.[2](https://www.irmct.org/sites/default/files/documents/S_2025_749-EN_0.pdf) • [9](https://www.icty.org/en/press/security-council-adopts-resolution-international-residual-mechanism-criminal-tribunals-irmct) • [10](https://www.irmct.org/en) Appeals in the cases of [Radovan Karadžić](https://www.edgepedia.org/radovan-karadzic), sentenced to 40 years' imprisonment on 24 March 2016, and Ratko Mladić passed to the Mechanism's jurisdiction.[11](https://www.icty.org/en/cases-before-irmct)\n\n## Achievements and legacy\n\nThe Tribunal indicted heads of state, prime ministers, army chiefs-of-staff, government ministers, and other leaders from various parties to the Yugoslav conflicts, dismantling the tradition of impunity for war crimes regardless of an individual's position.[12](https://www.icty.org/en/about/tribunal/achievements) As of early 2011, more than 4,000 witnesses had testified, and the Tribunal preserved their testimonies in court transcripts and video recordings.[12](https://www.icty.org/en/about/tribunal/achievements)\n\n**Establishing the facts.** The Tribunal's judgments established crucial facts about the crimes beyond a reasonable doubt, contributing to a historical record that combats denial and revisionism. In the Prijedor cases, judges found that Serb forces took control of the municipality on 30 April 1992, removed non-Serbs from positions of responsibility, and established the Omarska, Keraterm, and Trnopolje camps; the Omarska camp, planned to function for a fortnight, operated until about 20 August 1992, during which more than 3,334 detainees passed through it.[12](https://www.icty.org/en/about/tribunal/achievements) The Tribunal also confirmed crimes in Croatia, including the December 1991 shelling of the UNESCO-listed Old Town of Dubrovnik, in which 52 buildings were damaged and six destroyed, and the May 1995 shelling of central Zagreb, which killed seven civilians and injured 214; Milan Martić was found to have ordered the Zagreb attack with a non-guided M-87 Orkan weapon incapable of hitting specific targets.[12](https://www.icty.org/en/about/tribunal/achievements)\n\nThe Čelebići trial was a milestone in international law: it was the first time a court found rape to be a form of torture and convicted an accused on that basis, with the Trial Chamber stating that \"there can be no question that acts of rape may constitute torture under customary law\".[12](https://www.icty.org/en/about/tribunal/achievements)\n\n**Influence on international criminal justice.** Between them, the ICTY and the ICTR secured guilty verdicts against 155 individuals for crimes of atrocity, and their work opened the path to the 2002 founding of the [International Criminal Court](https://www.edgepedia.org/international-criminal-court), a standing worldwide tribunal intended to remove the need to establish an ad hoc tribunal for each new conflict.[5](https://apnews.com/article/cf27513aa30be098c45e6b2d654deec3) In its case law, the Tribunal fleshed out what its Statute's crimes require, covering matters such as grave breaches, the mental and physical components of crimes against humanity, which groups count as protected under genocide, and how particular offenses like torture, extermination, enslavement, and deportation are defined.[3](https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/icty/icty.html) Its case law forms the basis for the codification of international crimes in the domestic criminal codes of the former Yugoslavia, whose criminal procedures were aligned with the Tribunal's procedure and court practice, and its impact extended beyond war crimes into the overall criminal justice systems of the region.[13](https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/publications/where-the-icty-is-still-alive-explaining-the-ictys-impact-on-dome/) The ICTY's own manual of developed practices describes the continuation of war crimes prosecution by courts in the region as the Tribunal's real legacy, alongside its body of practice and case law.[14](https://www.icty.org/x/file/About/Reports%20and%20Publications/ICTY_Manual_on_Developed_Practices.pdf)\n\nScholarly assessments have also recorded limits. Janine Natalya Clark's five-year fieldwork study in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Kosovo argues that reconciliation is not a realistic aim for a criminal court, and that the pursuit of justice should not be viewed as a remedy for healing war-torn societies on its own.[15](https://www.routledge.com/International-Trials-and-Reconciliation-Assessing-the-Impact-of-the-International-Criminal-Tribunal-for-the-Former-Yugoslavia/Clark/p/book/9781138999206) The legitimacy of the Tribunal's establishment, tested in the Tadić case, has remained a subject of legal debate, with some scholars arguing that the Appeals Chamber's reasoning was not sufficiently persuasive and that legitimacy had to be acquired through the fairness of the proceedings themselves.[16](https://journals.uni-goettingen.de/gojil/article/view/2021)\n\n## References\n\n1. [The Tribunal – Establishment, ICTY legacy website](https://www.icty.org/en/about/tribunal/establishment)\n2. [Report of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, S/2025/749](https://www.irmct.org/sites/default/files/documents/S_2025_749-EN_0.pdf)\n3. [Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law](https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/icty/icty.html)\n4. [Mandate and Crimes under ICTY Jurisdiction, ICTY legacy website](https://www.unictri.irmct.org/en/about/tribunal/mandate-and-crimes-under-icty-jurisdiction)\n5. [Final case at UN tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda atrocities comes to an end, AP News](https://apnews.com/article/cf27513aa30be098c45e6b2d654deec3)\n6. [Updated Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (September 2009)](https://www.icty.org/x/file/Legal%20Library/Statute/statute_sept09_en.pdf)\n7. [Investigations, ICTY legacy website](https://www.icty.org/en/content/investigations)\n8. [Completion Strategy, ICTY legacy website](https://www.icty.org/en/about/tribunal/completion-strategy)\n9. [Security Council Adopts Resolution on the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), ICTY](https://www.icty.org/en/press/security-council-adopts-resolution-international-residual-mechanism-criminal-tribunals-irmct)\n10. [Home, International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals](https://www.irmct.org/en)\n11. [Cases before IRMCT, ICTY legacy website](https://www.icty.org/en/cases-before-irmct)\n12. [Achievements, ICTY legacy website](https://www.icty.org/en/about/tribunal/achievements)\n13. [Where the ICTY is Still Alive: Explaining the ICTY's Impact on Domestic Criminal Justice Systems in the Former Yugoslavia, Maastricht University](https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/publications/where-the-icty-is-still-alive-explaining-the-ictys-impact-on-dome/)\n14. [ICTY Manual on Developed Practices](https://www.icty.org/x/file/About/Reports%20and%20Publications/ICTY_Manual_on_Developed_Practices.pdf)\n15. [International Trials and Reconciliation: Assessing the Impact of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Janine Natalya Clark, Routledge](https://www.routledge.com/International-Trials-and-Reconciliation-Assessing-the-Impact-of-the-International-Criminal-Tribunal-for-the-Former-Yugoslavia/Clark/p/book/9781138999206)\n16. 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