ABSTRACT
In Bosnia-Hercegovina (BiH), the fundamental problem is that International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) sentences are not seen as fair because they make little sense to affected communities and this problematizes the Tribunal's claim that it is delivering justice to victims. While acknowledging that the ICTY could have indicted more than 161 individuals, a former senior trial attorney has underlined that, 'The Tribunal was never designed to prosecute every criminal who committed a crime during the wars in the former Yugoslavia. During the author's final two research trips to BiH in 2013, Bosniak interviewees had an additional grievance with the ICTY, pertaining to a string of recent acquittal verdicts. Bosnian Croat interviewees continually accused the ICTY of ignoring crimes committed against members of their ethnic group. This argument was most frequently voiced by Croats in central BiH, who claimed that the ICTY's trials relating to the Lasva Valley had detracted attention from Bosnian Croat suffering.
