Operation Amber Star

Operation Amber Star was a joint military operation to hunt down Bosnian war criminals and bring them to justice at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).[1][2][3] The operation combined the special forces and intelligence agencies of five countries- the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. The operation was assembled at the Patch Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany.[4] When the ICTY was created, it had limited resources and capabilities. On top of this NATO outright refused to make the arrests of indicted war criminals. This meant that the tribunal had almost no ability to actually perform the duties it was created for. Operation Amber Star helped lend teeth to the tribunal by helping to ensure all of the indicted war criminals were brought before the ICTY. While the operation was designed to be a joint mission, individual government and special forces usually worked separately on individual targets. For example, the US used Delta Force to target the Serb leader Radovan Karadzic specifically.[5][6]

Radovan Karadzic on trial at the ICTY

References
  1. Weiner, Tim (26 July 1998). "U.S. Cancels Plans For Raid on Bosnia To Capture 2 Serbs". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  2. Reed, Susan E. (22 April 2016). "No hiding place". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  3. "A Cowering United States Gives Terrorism a Free Ride". Los Angeles Times. 2 February 2001. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  4. "IBA – The manhunt". www.ibanet.org. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  5. Borger, Julian (2016). The Butcher's Trail: How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World's Most Successful Manhunt. Other Press. ISBN 978-1-59051-606-5.
  6. Terry Griswold D. M. Giangreco. Delta: America's Elite Counterterrorist Force. Zenith Imprint. pp. 113–. ISBN 978-1-61060-017-0.
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