TY - JOUR
T1 - Archives of Mass Violence: Understanding and Using ICTY Trial Records
AU - Vukušić, Iva
N1 - Funding Information:
I want to thank Predrag Dojčinović for his helpful comments on previous drafts of this article, as well as the two anonymous reviewers. Adam Vido provided valuable and timely research assistance.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 the author(s), published by De Gruyter on behalf of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies.
PY - 2022/12/1
Y1 - 2022/12/1
N2 - The most relevant collection for studying the wars accompanying the breakup of Yugoslavia, which resulted in over 130,000 dead or missing, is the archive of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. The Tribunal established by the UN Security Council in 1993 to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes indicted 161 people and had accumulated millions of pages of testimony, military and police reports, and videos when it closed in late 2017. This invaluable record details the massacres and includes well-known incidents, such as the mass executions after the fall of Srebrenica, but also killings and torture elsewhere in the former Yugoslavia. This article investigates the history of this archive, analyzes its contents, and argues that the collection has two important features which present both a huge opportunity and a significant challenge for research-the immense volume of the archive, and a lack of access to important parts of it.
AB - The most relevant collection for studying the wars accompanying the breakup of Yugoslavia, which resulted in over 130,000 dead or missing, is the archive of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. The Tribunal established by the UN Security Council in 1993 to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes indicted 161 people and had accumulated millions of pages of testimony, military and police reports, and videos when it closed in late 2017. This invaluable record details the massacres and includes well-known incidents, such as the mass executions after the fall of Srebrenica, but also killings and torture elsewhere in the former Yugoslavia. This article investigates the history of this archive, analyzes its contents, and argues that the collection has two important features which present both a huge opportunity and a significant challenge for research-the immense volume of the archive, and a lack of access to important parts of it.
KW - war crimes
KW - international criminal justice
KW - International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
KW - genocide
KW - archives
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85142065884&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/soeu-2021-0050
DO - 10.1515/soeu-2021-0050
M3 - Article
SN - 2701-8199
VL - 70
SP - 585
EP - 607
JO - Comparative Southeast European Studies
JF - Comparative Southeast European Studies
IS - 4
ER -