"Today, frequent calls are made to send someone or something “to The
Hague”. But between Nuremberg and Tokyo, in the late 1940s, to 1993 when
the Security Council created the Yugoslav Tribunal (ICTY), there were
no international trials of the international crimes of genocide, war
crimes and crimes against humanity. Today, a permanent international
criminal court, two United Nations ad hoc tribunals
(ex-Yugoslavia and Rwanda), and two hybrid or internationalized courts
(for Sierra Leone and in Cambodia) investigate and try these crimes.
Another hybrid tribunal (for Lebanon) uses international criminal
procedures. Judge David Reexplores the progression from what, after the
Second World War was sometimes termed “victor’s justice”, to today’s
sophisticated system of international criminal law and asks, “how and
why have we come so far in the last 19 years?”"
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