UN's Balkan War Crimes Tribunal Holds Elections
New York, Oct 28 2009 2:10PM
The two most senior officials of the United Nations war crimes tribunal set up to try people accused of committing the worst offences during the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s have been elected to another stint in office, the court announced today.
Judge Patrick Robinson of Jamaica and Judge
O-Gon Kwon of the Republic of Korea (ROK) were re-elected on
Monday as President and Vice-President by the permanent
judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (http://www.icty.org/sid/10255).
The
tribunal, which is based in The Hague, elected President
Robinson and Vice-President Kwon by acclamation to new
two-year terms starting on 17 November. Both judges took up
their posts on the same date in 2008.
Since its
establishment in 1993, the ICTY has indicted 161 people
suspected of war crimes.
While proceedings are
ongoing against 41 of the accused, including the former
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžic, proceedings have been
concluded against 120, with two suspects – Bosnian Serb
military chief Ratko Mladic and the ethnic Serb politician
Goran Hadžic – still at
large.
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