Volume 40, Number 16 · October 7, 1993
Misjudgment at Nuremberg
By István Deák
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Remembering in Vain: The Klaus Barbie Trial and Crimes Against Humanity
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On February 22, 1993, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to establish an 'International Tribunal to Prosecute Persons Responsible for Humanitarian Law Violations in Former Yugoslavia.'[1] Based on the Nuremberg model, the tribunal was the first such body to be created since the end of World War II. Its ostensible purpose was to consider all war crimes committed in former Yugoslavia, but no one doubted that the Council members were mainly reacting to Serbian atrocities in Bosnia.
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