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The president of the UN\u2019s war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia, Carmel Agius, said the Hague Tribunal established many crucial facts about the 1990s wars, but its job was never to provide reconciliation.<\/p>\n

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Carmel Agius, the president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, which is shutting down at the end of the year, said during a visit to Sarajevo on Wednesday that he was proud that the UN court had assembled a comprehensive set of proven facts about the 1990s wars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cWe are closing the door, but we are giving you a large collection of determined facts. We are giving you the truth about what happened,\u201d Agius said.<\/div>\n
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However, he cautioned: \u201cWe are not offering reconciliation, because it has not been the mandate of this court to do it.\u201d\u201cWe have not dealt with it at all. All the citizens in the countries in the region have the responsibility for reconciliation,\u201d he added.<\/div>\n
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The ICTY president said he had mixed emotions about the Tribunal\u2019s closure.\u201c<\/div>\n
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On one hand, I am proud of what has been done, but, on the other hand, I see the large quantity of work that remains to be done in the region,\u201d he explained.<\/div>\n
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Agius said he was saddened that there had been so much criticism of the Tribunal.<\/div>\n
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\u201cMany people blame us for not accusing all the criminals, but it was not our task at all. Our role was to accuse the most responsible ones and we have done that. Our term of office was short. I think a big job has been done within the limited timeframe,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
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The burden of continuing to prosecute war crimes now lies with domestic courts in the region, particularly the Bosnian state court , according to Agius.<\/div>\n
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\u201cOur legacy will depend on how those institutions will continue working. We provided big help to establishing the Bosnian state court, we gave international judges to work at that court until someone decided they were no longer needed and they should better leave. In my opinion, that was a big mistake,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
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Speaking about the establishment of the Hague Tribunal itself, Agius said he was particularly proud of the fact that it was the first time since World War Two that the world said it would not allow crimes against humanity to go unpunished.<\/div>\n
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\u201c\u2018That\u2019s enough of that!\u2019 This was our message in the 1990s. The clear message of the Security Council of the United Nations,\u201d he said.\u201cToday we have similar situations in the world, like in Syria. I am saddened by the fact that we do not have the same stand by the international community,\u201d he added.<\/div>\n
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The ICTY will officially close its doors at the end of this year after it has pronounced verdicts in the cases against former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic and six former Bosnia Croat officials.<\/div>\n
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The remaining cases that were before the ICTY, including the appeal in the case of former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic, have been taken over by the Mechanism for International Tribunals in The Hague.<\/div>\n
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