ABSTRACT
This chapter interrogates the relationship between visual media and legal witnessing by mapping the uses of video at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, The Netherlands. The ICTY is an international ad-hoc court established via a resolution of the United Nations Security Council in May 1993 to prosecute serious violations of international humanitarian law in the territory of the former Yugoslavia. The audio-visual coverage of the ICTY proceedings suggests that human rights courtrooms are naturalizing video as a technology that is now considered to support and expand the court's mission. To better understand the role of video as evidence at the ICTY, the chapter focuses on a few examples from the trial of Radovan Karadzic, the former President of Republika Srpska. The ICTY Outreach Programme was set up in 1999 to help the court communicate its judgments and findings in the countries of the former Yugoslavia.
