The Hague tribunal has proved that it can conduct such trials successfully in 19 cases already.
After a slow start, the Hague tribunal looks set to prove the sceptics wrong.
Of 78 men known to have been indicted by the Hague tribunal (mostly Bosnian Serbs), 68 still remain at large.
Some were buried alive, a French policeman who collected evidence from Bosnian Muslims, Jean-Rene Ruez, told The Hague tribunal in 1996.
At the Hague tribunal judges are now examining cases of lesser ranking indictees to see whether they can be tried back home.
In February 2005 the Hague tribunal indicted him for war crimes.
This week Dusan Tadic, a Bosnian Serb who had treated Muslims in the camps brutishly, became the second person to receive a prison sentence from the Hague tribunal.
Thomas Karremans, told The Hague tribunal in 1996 that he had first requested NATO air strikes when Mladic's troops began their assault on July 6, but that the request was not granted until July 11 when Srebrenica fell.
Since the Karadzic arrest in 2008, only two Serbs have been left on the wanted list of The Hague war-crimes tribunal.
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He became an international semi-pariah following the Hague-based UN Tribunal's move to indict him for war crimes during the Kosovo conflict last year.
But he has been formally charged with war crimes by the International Tribunal at The Hague.
Croatia's co-operation with the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague has been under close scrutiny.
It has also tried to block the lawsuit by appealing to an arbitration tribunal in The Hague.
As an indicted war crimes suspect, he could end up before the United Nations Tribunal in The Hague.
His arrest follows increased contact between the Bosnian Serb authorities and the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague.
They have now been extradited to the international tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.
General Ojdanic has surrendered to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
And he advises Mr Kostunica to dispatch Mr Milosevic to the war-crimes tribunal in The Hague as soon as possible.
After the conflict in Kosovo ended, in June, 1999, a tribunal in The Hague set out to punish the perpetrators of atrocities.
The police have every incentive to keep Mr Milosevic in office and away from the war-crimes tribunal in The Hague where an indictment awaits him.
Of course, Mr Milosevic had to stand down eventually, and a subsequent Serbian leader delivered him up to the war crimes tribunal in the Hague.
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Zdravko Tolimir, a close aide to Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic during the Bosnian War, is accused of war crimes at the international tribunal at The Hague.
In the short term, though, Mr Sanader will have to resolve the problem of Ante Gotovina, a Croatian general indicted by the war-crimes tribunal in The Hague.
Croatia has plenty of war to talk about: its part in the Bosnian wars, a war against corruption, trouble with the UN war-crimes tribunal in The Hague.
Mr Milosevic further thumbed his nose at the world by refusing to let a prosecutor from the international war-crimes tribunal at The Hague, Louise Arbour, enter Kosovo.
Mr Nikolic is officially the deputy president of the party as its leader, Vojislav Seselj is facing charges at the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
Also on the agenda will be Belgrade's level of co-operation with the International War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague and regional issues in southern Serbia, Kosovo and Montenegro.
UN's Yugoslav war-crimes tribunal at The Hague must be used to a bad press, especially over the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, the former Serbian leader, which has gone badly.
Last June he emerged from seclusion in Belgrade, brandishing a letter from the tribunal at The Hague, confirming that he is not on a list of publicly indicted suspects.
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