U.N. war crimes courtroom displayed in Sarajevo to preserve tribunal's legacy


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  • Monday, 10 Dec 2018

Students are seen at the original courtroom of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), as a part of their education, in Sarajevo City Hall, Bosnia and Herzegovina December 7, 2018. Picture taken December 7, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A U.N. war crimes courtroom in which a Bosnian Serb general was prosecuted for atrocities committed during the siege of Sarajevo has been moved to the Bosnian capital to preserve the legacy of the first attempt to hold war criminals to account since World War Two.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which closed down last year after prosecuting 161 suspects for crimes committed during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, had agreed to move the original courtroom and archives to Sarajevo, where 11,000 people were killed during the siege.

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