Griffiths could put up a strong defence for his action, like Robinson did at the ICTY, and the judges could decide that there is no case against him.
The lull ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, and the first significant war tribunals thereafter were established by the United Nations in the 1990s the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague (ICTY), in 1993, and the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania (ICTR), in 1995.
Peter Robinson, the Californian lawyer currently representing Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic at the ICTY, says: "It allows the US and UK and other people who want to intervene on the side of the rebels not to fear that they would be prosecuted if the rebels go ahead and commit crimes with some of the arms or funds that are provided for them".
Some lawyers with experience at the ICTY say this is an example of a case in which the evidence would formerly have been sufficient to reach a conviction - and that there has been a fundamental change of the court's interpretation.
the trial of Hadžić is in progress at the ICTY since 2012, and it is expected to be completed by the end of 2015.
During his dissident testimony at the ICTY, one of the top-Krajina leaders, Milan Babić, stated that the Serb side started using force first.
A member of the United Nations UN Commissionof of Experts testified during the trial of Duško Tadić at the ICTY that their number was in the thousands, but she could not be precise, despite the fact that Serbian officials confirmed there were no large scale releases of prisoners sent there.
At the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at the end of 2004, the lawyers representing former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, upon his initiative, had asked to be removed from the case; the judges denied the request, and Milosevic continued to serve as his own primary counsel.
Milošević's attempt to cling to power by taking the federal presidency exposed him to indictment by the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague.
According to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), at least 48 civilians were killed of which 45 were non-Serbs.
