caa a22 4500 388046147 CHVBK 20180307125038.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199804 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020589300061959 doi S0020589300061959 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020589300061959 II. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: The Erdemović Case [Elektronische Daten] [Colin Warbrick: editor, Dominic McGoldrick: editor, David Turns] On 29 November 1996 Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ("the ICTY”) handed down its sentence in the case of Dražen Erdemović. This was a decision of historie significance for a variety of reasons, the most obvious being that it was the first sentence passed by an international war crimes tribunals, applying international law, since the International Military Tribunals which sat at Nuremberg and Tokyo between 1945 and 1948; it was also the first time a truly international tribunal bas concluded the trial of a minor war criminal, as opposed to a senior military commander or political leader. In addition, it was the first sentence handed down by the ICTY, which has been plagued sincc its first days of operation by problems in securing evidence and witnesses, not to mention the presence of the accused. Now the ICTY has shown, in the face of widespread criticism and accusations of impotence, that it can actually perform the task assigned to it. The doubt about such a judgment is that the Erdemović case is not perhaps the best basis on which to assess the ICTY's performance, so singular were the accused's conduct and, indeed, the circumstances in which he found himself before the Tribunal. Essentially, had it not been for the accused's voluntary surrender and his extensive co-operation with the Office of the Prosecutor, and the co-operation of the judirial authorities in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) in transferring Erdemović to The Hague, the case would probably never have happened at all. Copyright © British Institute of International and Comparative Law 1998 Warbrick Colin edt McGoldrick Dominic edt Turns David International and Comparative Law Quarterly Cambridge University Press 47/2(1998-04), 461-474 0020-5893 47:2<461 1998 47 ILQ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589300061959 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589300061959 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Warbrick Colin edt NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McGoldrick Dominic edt NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Turns David NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International and Comparative Law Quarterly Cambridge University Press 47/2(1998-04), 461-474 0020-5893 47:2<461 1998 47 ILQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge