Yugoslav War Crimes: How Many Have Been Convicted?

Yesterday, former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic was jailed for life for war crimes he committed during the Bosnian war in the 1990s. He went into hiding in 1995 before being tracked down and arrested in rural Serbia in 2011. Mladic was far from the only individual prosecuted for war crimes during the war in Yugoslavia.

Another prominent case is that of former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic who was arrested in Belgrade in 2008 and who was eventually convicted of genocide and war crimes in the Bosnian war in 2016. According to ICTY data reported by the BBC, 161 people have been indicted for Yugoslav war crimes so far. Of those, 83 have been convicted, 37 proceedings have ended and 19 people have been acquitted.