"Judicial Liquidation" of the ICTY - Time vs. Justice?
In today's online edition of LeMonde, Stéphanie Maupas takes stock of the achievements of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). In her opinion article Le "coma" du Tribunal pénal international, she stresses the devastating effect of the impending cessation of the tribunal's operations due to lapse of time (the ICTY is set to complete its operations in 2010) - which she calls "judicial liquidation." Thus, in order to accomplish the daunting task of hearing and deciding about 55 cases in the remaining 3 years - compared to the 106 cases that have been concluded so far since establishment of the ICTY in 1993 - the judges have turned to the practice of "artificially" limiting the numbers of accusations the prosecution may bring in against each individual defendant. To read the opinion, click on the link below [text in French].
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