Republika Srpska (1992–95) 1992–1995 Bosnian war. In 1993, the United Nations Security Council created the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague for the purpose of bringing to justice persons allegedly responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law in the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991. On 24 July 1995, the Hague Tribunal indicted Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity; on 14 November 1995, both men were indicted again on charges specific to the Srebrenica massacre. On 2 August 2001, the Hague Tribunal found General-Major Radislav Krstić, the commander of
Rape during the Bosnian War In other words, the rape itself served as an instrument of strategic desecration of Bosnian and/or Bosniak identity and anything related to it. In the study entitled "Mass Rape: The War Against Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina", Alexandra Stiglmayer et al. conclude: In August 1992 media stories publicized the use of rape as a war strategy, and one of the first to bring it to the world's attention was "Newsday" correspondent Roy Gutman's programme "Mass Rape: Muslims Recall Serb Attacks", which aired on August 23, 1992. The United Nations Security Council established the ICTY in response to the conflict's human rights violations.