PARIS – When the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established by the United Nations Security Council 20 years ago, on May 25, 1993, many regarded it as a meaningless gesture. At the time, the war in Bosnia was already more than a year old; the city of Sarajevo was under siege; tens of thousands of civilian noncombatants had already died; and hundreds of thousands had been forcibly displaced.
巴黎—20年前，1993年5月25日，联合国安理会成立了前南斯拉夫国际刑事法庭（ICTY），当时很多人认为这只是个无意义的姿态。当是时，波斯尼亚战争已经开始一年有余；萨拉热窝陷入重重包围；成千上万非军事平民丧生；还有数十万人被迫流离失所。