On December 21, 2017, the first ad hoc international criminal court established by the United Nations since the post-World War II Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals completed its work.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY, held its closing ceremony at the historical Hall of Knights in The Hague, attended by high-level state officials, diplomats, UN officials and representatives of other international organisations who had gathered to applaud the ICTY’s achievements.
The ICTY was celebrated that day as “groundbreaking”, not only for dispensing accountability to those responsible for war crimes but also for contributing to the “healing process” for victims, documenting the “undeniable truth and facts of past tragedies”. According to the UN secretary-general, Antonio Guterres, this would “ensure that the world will not forget, that history cannot be re-written [and that] victims’ voices will continue to resound down the decades”.
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