NAVY SEALS: UNTOLD STORIES (BOSNIA) PART 1 OF 3

Explore the 1998 commando mission to apprehend Serbian war criminals in Bosnia including Blagoje Simic, dubbed "the Hitler of Bosnia." The SEALS conduct their own secret mission, and with split-second precision they nab Simic and make a daring escape.

The 1990s saw progress made in arguably the most important and most contentious aspect of war crimes law and practice: the international prosecution of individual breaches of international law. In May 1993 the UN Security Council established an International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The tribunal, based in The Hague, began to prepare indictments for war crimes committed by the various sides in the Yugoslav conflict, and in April 1995 an alleged Bosnia Serb war criminal—Dusko Tadic—became the first occupant of a new UN detention centre while awaiting trial for outrages committed in the Omarska prison camp.

Tadic was later sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment for crimes against humanity. Radovan Karadjic, the Bosnian Serb leader, together with other Serbs, Croatians, and Bosnian Muslims, were also later indicted. Following the recrudescence of genocide and ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Kosovo in early 1999, the Hague tribunal began preparing evidence for another round of indictments.