Judge Theodor Meron of US jurist with extended work at ICTY and in dealing with war crimes and international law, was today elected to his second term as President of the UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. (From ICTY & UN News Centre Sources). Prosecution of Mladic & Karadzic: Judge Meron will begin a two-year term on 17 November, succeeding President Patrick Robinson of Jamaica, as the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) hears cases against the Serb political leader Radovan Karadžic and Serbian military chief Ratko Mladic. They are indicted on a slew of charges over atrocities committed during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, including genocide, extermination, murder, persecutions, deportation, hostage-taking and inflicting terror on civilians, particularly in the massacre of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the supposedly “safe haven” of Srebrenica in July 1995 in one of the most notorious events of the conflict. Judge Meron’s Experience on Behalf of US: Since his election to the ICTY by the UN General Assembly in March 2001, Judge Meron has served on the appeals chamber for both the ICTY and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and already served as ICTY President from March 2003 to November 2005. He was elected today by acclamation today by his fellow ICTY judges. Recognized as a leading scholar of international humanitarian law, human rights, and international criminal law, Judge Meron was credited in overseeing a series of reforms during his first presidential term to increase the efficiency of court proceedings and helped to establish a war crimes chamber in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Prior to his election to the ICTY, Judge Meron was a member of the US delegation to the human dimensions conference of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in Copenhagen in 1990 and to the Rome conference in 1998 on setting up the International Criminal Court (ICC). ICTY judges also elected Carmel Agius of Malta, who was first elected to ICTY in 2001, as Vice-President in succession to O-gon Kwon of the Republic of Korea (ROK). Last RELATED ARTICLE – “Serbian Official Refuses to Testify at ICTY” - diplomaticallyincorrect.org/films/blog_post/serbian-official-refuses-to-testify-icty/36129 By Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey Facebook Become a Fan at “Diplomatically Incorrect” or "BosniaTV" Twitter – Follow at DiplomaticallyX Related Reports – “War Crimes Justice” Channel - diplomaticallyincorrect.org/c/war-crimes-justice