Some Legal Issues in the Dispute Between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, for Violating the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Some Legal Issues in the Dispute Between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, for Violating the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with issues related to the legal dispute between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia related to the violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The dispute attracted a lot of media attention. Much has been said and written about it, but by the media and politicians. Lawyers in Bosnia and Herzegovina have ignored this legal issue. It is true that the dispute lasted a long time, and that a huge amount of evidence was used and that the legal practice of other legal traditions prevailed. Additionally, the dispute was not conducted in our mother tongue. But, is all this together a sufficient justification for ignoring one such historical legal event? In this text, the author tries to briefly describe and explain the basic issues that were the subject of the dispute. To describe and explain how Bosnia and Herzegovina sought to prove its own claims of what it succeeded in and what it did not in addition to taking its own legal views on the subject legal issues.

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