Arhive o masovnom nasilju: RAZUMEVANJE I KORIŠĆENJE SUDSKIH SPISA MKSJ
Archive on Mass Violence: UNDERSTANDING AND USING MKSJ COURT DOCUMENTS

Author(s): Iva Vukusic
Subject(s): History, Criminal Law, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, Criminology, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: Fond za humanitarno pravo
Keywords: war crimes; international criminal justice; International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY); genocide; archives
Summary/Abstract: The most important collection of materials for the study of the wars that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia, in which 130,000 people died or disappeared, is the archive of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. By the time it closed in late 2017, this court, which was established by the UN Security Council in 1993 to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, had indicted 161 people and collected millions of pages of testimony, military and police reports and video footage. This invaluable material describes in detail the massacres and well-known incidents, such as the mass executions after the fall of Srebrenica, but also murders and tortures in other locations in the former Yugoslavia. In this article, I explore the history of that archive, analyze its content, and argue that the archive has two important characteristics, which represent both a great opportunity and a great challenge for researchers — the huge volume of material and the lack of access to some important parts of the archive.

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