Despite a slow start, it has compiled an admirable record in bringing to justice and providing fundamentally fair trials for some 80 indictees, including generals, heads of state, and brutal prison camp commandants.

While only four ICTY indictees remain at large, two fugitives – Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic – are among the most notorious suspects who must face justice before the ICTY’s work can be considered complete.

If Hitler had been alive in October 1945, the 21 indictees who were in fact tried at Nuremberg would not have been let off the hook.

Indeed, international and domestic support for the Hague Tribunal are increasing and Milosevic, General Ratko Mladic and other indictees now sheltered by the Yugoslav government will have to face charges for the horrendous crimes committed under their leadership in the wars they started over the past decade.

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