A brief look at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, established in 1993 by the U.N. Security Council.JURISDICTION: Perpetrators of atrocities committed during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, including grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, violations of the laws or customs of war, genocide and crimes against humanity.
INDICTMENTS: More than 160 ethnic Serbs, Croats and Muslims indicted. Majority are Serbs.
CASES: 60 convictions, 11 acquittals, 14 at appeal, 13 transferred to Balkan states for trial. Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic died in 2006 before his genocide trial could be completed. There are currently 23 suspects on trial.
GOING ON TRIAL: Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, charged with genocide, extermination, murder, persecutions, deportation, inhumane acts, and other crimes committed against Bosnian Muslim, Bosnian Croat and other non-Serb civilians during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war.
TOP CONVICTS: Former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic, sentenced to 11 years; Gen. Radislav Krstic, 35 years for aiding and abetting genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia, in 1995; Goran Jelisic, who called himself the "Serb Adolf," 40 years.
REMAINING FUGITIVES: Bosnian Serb military chief, Gen. Ratko Mladic, accused of genocide and crimes against humanity for atrocities including Srebrenica massacre and the siege of Sarajevo and Goran Hadzic, a former leader of rebel Croatian Serbs.
BUDGET: $342,332,300 for 2008 and 2009, up from $10.8 million in 1994.
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