Practice of genocide punishment and prevention: strengths and weaknesses of the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in comparison to the International Court оf Justice

Abstract

Recent sentence of war-time leader Radovan Karadžić brought
a new argument to the discussion of effectiveness of transitional justice in
general and International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
particularly. Being sentenced to 40 years of imprisonment, Karadžić, however,
acquitted one count of indictment – genocide in municipalities. This, along
with the lowered number of victims of Srebrenica, became a reason of wide
disappointed of the survivors and invoked another legal dispute as to whether
the achievements of the international courts punishing and preventing genocide
outnumber the failures.