The new United Nations tribunal that was formed – nearly five decades after the final judgments were rendered at Nuremberg and Tokyo – became the forerunner of ad hoc courts to prosecute perpetrators of Rwanda’s genocide, Charles Taylor and his blood-diamond butchers in Sierra Leone, and the Khmer Rouge killers in Cambodia. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) also gave rise to the permanent International Criminal Court to try war criminals worldwide.
而当时为此而新设的联合国特别法庭——在纽伦堡和东京审判结束了近半个世纪之后——也开创了先河，为随后审判卢旺达大屠杀，追究利比里亚前军事独裁者查尔斯·泰勒以及他那帮塞拉利昂滴血钻石屠夫，以及审判柬埔寨红色高棉屠杀者提供了示范。而这个前南斯拉夫问题国际刑事法庭（简称：前南法庭）同时也带动了常设国际刑事法庭的成立。