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From Bosnia to Myanmar: does international justice work?

The International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has delivered the verdict in its last full trial against Ratko Mladic, the commander of Bosnian-Serb forces in the 1990s Bosnian war, nicknamed the 'Butcher of Bosnia'. After handing down a life sentence for Mladic's crime of genocide in the Srebrenica massacre, Dan Damon looks at how the Tribunal has changed the law of war.

(Image: Bosnian women outside the ICTY in The Hague awaiting the verdict Credit: Albana Kasapi)

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