ABSTRACT

Since the ICTY began indicting war criminals it has been widely debated who should be involved in detaining the individuals the tribunal wanted to prosecute in addition to or instead of ordinary peace enforcement soldiers.45 Many suggestions, some more controversial than others, have been considered and discussed. At the extreme end of the spectrum of possible alternatives to letting peace enforcement soldiers detain indicted war criminals lies the research editor of the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems Beverly Izes’s proposition of authorising state-sanctioned abductions of indicted war criminals and Major Christopher M. Supernor’s proposal to legalise international bounty hunters (Izes 1997, Supernor 2001). More plausible alternatives or supplements include using external Special Forces such as SFOR and KFOR, have done, setting up an international tracking or arresting team such as Del Ponte has proposed, setting up a special unit within the peace enforcement mission or involving the international or the local police. Mainly based on the experience of IFOR, SFOR and KFOR this chapter discusses the viability of including these various actors in the process of apprehending indicted war criminals and it initiates the development of a framework for including them.