A 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: 56 convictions, 10 acquittals, eight cases on 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 27 suspects on trial. Five are awaiting trial. ARRESTED: Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, charged with genocide, complicity in genocide, extermination, murder,...
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