The document summarizes the key events leading up to and during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. It establishes the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) by the UN Security Council in 1993 to prosecute war crimes committed during the conflict. The ICTY is located in The Hague and has jurisdiction over grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity committed in the former Yugoslavia since 1991. It aims to hold accountable those responsible and deter future war crimes.