ABSTRACT
Every year, thousands of tourists would flock to Yugoslavia. During the 1980s, serious problems were already developing in Yugoslavia. Some of the problems: it was experiencing a growing economic crisis and falling further into crippling international debt; Tito's death in 1980 created a power vacuum in Yugoslavia which paved the way for a destructive resurgence of ethnic nationalisms; and the fact that Yugoslavia's past remained unresolved crucially facilitated the rise of competing ethnic nationalisms. According to the last pre-war census in 1991, Bosnian Serbs accounted for 31.4 per cent of Bosnia-Hercegovina (BiH's) population. When Slovenia and Croatia seceded from Yugoslavia, this left BiH in an extremely difficult position. Security Council Resolution 827 established the threefold mandate of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), namely: to bring to justice persons responsible for war crimes, to deter the commission of further crimes and to 'contribute to the restoration and maintenance of peace'.
