International Tribunal Launches High School Outreach Program

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) announced today the start of its high school outreach program. Today’s program is the start of a series of presentations at high schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Representatives of the ICTY will be making future presentations in Kosovo, Serbia, and Croatia. The purpose of the outreach program is to introduce high school students to the work of the ICTY and its role in bringing to justice perpetrators of war crimes and other violations of international humanitarian law in the area of the former Yugoslavia. Among others, the ICTY has prosecuted the perpetrators of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, and was in the process of trying Slobodan Milosevic, the former president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Milosevic died before a judgment was handed down in his case.