United Nations Security Council resolution 1259, adopted unanimously on 11 August 1999, after recalling
resolutions 808 (1993),
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(1993),
936 (1994),
955
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Europe
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(1994) and
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(1996), the Council appointed
Carla Del Ponte as
Prosecutor
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at the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to try their perpetrators. The tribunal ...
(ICTY).
The Council noted the resignation of the former Prosecutor,
Louise Arbour, with effect from 15 September 1999, and decided that term of Carla Del Ponte, a
Swiss
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attorney general, would begin on that date.
See also
*
Bosnian Genocide
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Rwandan genocide
The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu ...
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(1998–2000)
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Yugoslav Wars
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References
External links
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Text of the Resolution at undocs.org
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