ABSTRACT
In 1993, the UN Security Council decided to establish an ad hoc criminal court to investigate and prosecute the most serious human rights abuses committed on the territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991. This decision was based on Chapter VII of the UN Charter and constituted a response to the threat to international peace and security posed by those crimes. Similar to humanitarian interventions that are also based on Chapter VII and human rights concerns, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) constituted a judicial multilateral intervention – intervention with legal means, without the use of force.
