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Archives of Mass Violence: Understanding and Using ICTY Trial Records

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  • Vukušić Iva

    (Department of History and Art History, History of International Relations, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands)

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The most relevant collection for studying the wars accompanying the breakup of Yugoslavia, which resulted in over 130,000 dead or missing, is the archive of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. The Tribunal established by the UN Security Council in 1993 to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes indicted 161 people and had accumulated millions of pages of testimony, military and police reports, and videos when it closed in late 2017. This invaluable record details the massacres and includes well-known incidents, such as the mass executions after the fall of Srebrenica, but also killings and torture elsewhere in the former Yugoslavia. This article investigates the history of this archive, analyzes its contents, and argues that the collection has two important features which present both a huge opportunity and a significant challenge for research—the immense volume of the archive, and a lack of access to important parts of it.

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  • Vukušić Iva, 2022. "Archives of Mass Violence: Understanding and Using ICTY Trial Records," Comparative Southeast European Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 70(4), pages 585-607, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:soeuro:v:70:y:2022:i:4:p:585-607:n:7
    DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2021-0050
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