Justice Unseen

In 1992 the world slowly began to learn about the existence of concentration camps, mass executions, mass rape, and "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia. On May 25, 1993, the U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 827 for the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Located in The Hague, this forum of justice has come to be known as The Hague Tribunal. One of its missions from the beginning was to bring justice to the victims of war crimes and bring the guilty parties before the court. After eleven years of work the costs of The Hague Tribunal have exceeded 830 million dollars, while fewer than one hundred people have been found guilty. However, in the territory of the former Yugoslavia there exist records of over 7,500 war crimes. A pair of documentary filmmakers from Sarajevo set off to The Hague and at the same time visited the Bosnian communities of Prijedor and Konjic. In these towns, they investigated how the local people are reconciling themselves with the suffering caused by the war and how they view the work of The Hague Tribunal. Has The Tribunal succeeded in fulfilling the goal for which it was created, or has it only been an expensive experiment created by pressure from the public and the media?