„We must leave no stone unturned in our efforts to isolate the deniers. They will continue to lie, but in time, through our efforts, they will be diminished. History is on the side of justice, and we will prevail.“

Following his election as a Judge of the ICTY by the U.N. General Assembly in March 2001, Judge Meron, a citizen of the United States, served on the Appeals Chambers of both the ICTY and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) until the closure of both Tribunals. Before being appointed the first President of the IRMCT (2012–2019), Theodor Meron served as Judge and President of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . He completed two terms in the latter capacity, and chaired the appellate panel of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda . He was also Chairman of the IRMCT appeals chamber in the case of Radovan Karadžić.

„The work of the ICTY has demonstrated that such action can be taken, and that the rule of law can win out over impunity.“

„I believe that the ICTY has helped to foster the dawn of a new era—one in which accountability and justice when it comes to horrific crimes are increasingly the expectation, rather than the exception.“

„The law cannot stop all conflict or all brutality. But it is through the law that we express and respect our shared values; the law encapsulates our moral imperatives, whether religious or secular.“

„When our laws proclaim that genocide is prohibited, it reflects our shared humanity and our absolute refusal to accept and endorse the act of genocide as a result. And when we seek to hold accountable someone accused of such a crime, through, for instance, the establishment of international criminal tribunals, this also acts to express our utter repudiation of the act itself and to say, in essence: never again.“

„The genocide in Srebrenica in July 1995 was the embodiment of the ultimate evil. It was the worst atrocity to occur on European soil since World War II. Judge Fouad Riad, who served at the ICTY between 1995 and 2001 and sat on the Krstić trial, described the events as "truly scenes from hell written on the darkest pages of human history." Those events also constituted the crime of genocide; a crime that carries the heaviest weight of shame. Yet shame is not a word that the perpetrators of the genocide, and those who see them as heroes, want to hear. This is because to acknowledge shame would require admitting the truth and, moreover, admitting their own guilt. It would mean confronting their cruelty towards other human beings and the evil of their actions. For those who lack the moral fibre to face such a mirror, it is much easier to perpetuate a lie.“

„Just as the Srebrenica genocide was characterised by extreme brutality and cruelty, those who seek to deny it will be equally aggressive in their desire to bury the truth. And they will be persistent, because they are unwilling, even unable, to acknowledge their own wrongdoing. Their recent efforts in this regard are nothing but a further attempt to distort history where they have failed in the past. They failed because you, the victims, and those of goodwill in your country and the international community, resisted those vile attacks against the truth, and because the ICTY, the Mechanism, the ICJ and the domestic courts of Bosnia and Herzegovina continued to do their duty. Now that we are faced with new threats, it is time for all stakeholders to launch a massive counter-attack. We must unite in denouncing and exposing the deniers. Local courts, judges, prosecutors and lawyers must also be free to carry out their work. This is the only way forward.“