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Introduction to the Hague Tribunal
 
History of the Hague Tribunal
 
1919
Article 227 Treaty of Versailles proposes Commission on the Responsibility of the Authors of the War and on Enforcement of Penalties.
1920
Assembly of League of Nations rejects idea of High Court of International Justice as "premature".
1937
League of Nations signed Convention for International Criminal Court to try terrorist offences. Never became law.
1945
Nuremberg Tribunal.
1946
Tokyo Tribunal.
1948
UN asks International Law Commission to study a Criminal Chamber of the International Court of Justice.
1989
UN asks the ILC to again study idea of International Criminal Court.
1993
ILC begins work.
June 1991
Croatia and Slovenia secede from Yugoslavia. War begins.
April 1992
Bosnian war starts following referendum on independence. 100,000 to 200,000 killed in 4 years.
October 1992
UN Resolution 780 proposes creation of tribunal.
February 1993
UN Resolution 808 creates the tribunal.
May 1993
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia set up.
April 1994
Genocide in Rwanda kills 500,000 to 1 million Tutsis killed.
November 1995
Dayton Peace Agreement ends Bosnia and Croatia wars.
May 1997
First ICTY conviction: Dusan Tadic, Serb former detention camp guard.
July 1997
NATO commandos launch first arrest raid against Tribunal indictee.
November 1997
First sighting of guerrillas of Kosovo Liberation Army.
March 1998
68 Ethnic Albanians die at Prekaz, Kosovo, in attack by Serbian security forces. Guerrilla war spreads across province.
March 1999
NATO begins bombing Serbia. 860,000 Ethnic Albanians removed from Kosovo by Serbian security forces.
May 27 1999
ICTY indicts Slobodan Milosevic for Crimes Against Humanity.
October 2000
Milosevic loses Yugoslav presidential election.
June 2001
Milosevic arrested by Serbian police. Handed over to NATO and flown to ICTY.
February 2002
Milosevic trial begins.
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