ICC 30 years after Yugoslavia: From Milosevic to Putin
By DW
25 May 2023 |
2:45 pm
The Russian president has a warrant out for his arrest issued by the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The groundwork for this was laid by the special tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.
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