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Srebrenica i bosanskohercegovački amandman
Srebrenica and Bosnia's amendment

Author(s): Hasan Balić
Subject(s): History
Published by: Naučnoistraživački institut »Ibn Sina«
Keywords: Srebrenica; Muslims; Turks; Bosnian Serbs; criminological truth; genocide; ethnic cleansing

Summary/Abstract: Viewed from the perspective of criminology, the Bosnian Serb army and military and paramilitary units from what is now the Federal States of Serbia and Montenegro perpetrated three crimes in Srebrenica in 1992 to 1995, in an ideal concatenation. In one blow, they sought to destruct the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, kill a large number of its citizens, and inflict genocide on the Muslims, who constitute a majority in the country. This is a factual and legal novum that indicates that the conditions have arisen for an amendment to Article 2 of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, to enable the cataclysm of victims (killing others, those who are different), assault on the state in which they live, and the destruction of the religious, cultural and public buildings bellonging to them) to be incorporated into the definition of the international crime of genocide.

  • Issue Year: 2005
  • Issue No: 28
  • Page Range: 183-191
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Bosnian