Crimes against humanity and international law in Višegrad municipality Cover Image

Četnički zločini protiv čovječnosti i međunarodnog prava na području općine Višegrad
Crimes against humanity and international law in Višegrad municipality

Author(s): Ermin Kuka
Subject(s): International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Local History / Microhistory, Military history, Studies in violence and power, Victimology, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: JU Zavod za zaštitu i korištenje kulturno-historijskog i prirodnog naslijeđa
Keywords: aggression; Visegrad; genocide; crimes; killings;

Summary/Abstract: Crimes against Humanity and International Law in Višegrad Municipality have their historical genesis and constant. Višegrad is, due to its geographical, and strategic location, the capital of Serbian great state ideology, policy and practice, especially because of the proximity of neighboring Serbia and Montenegro. In Višegrad, Chetniks carried out numerous individual and mass crimes, including the crime of genocide as the gravest forms of crimes against humanity and international law. The main hypothesis of the paper is that in the Višegrad area, throughout history, been carried out numerous crimes against humanity and international law against the Bosniak population, including the crime of genocide, all with the goal of creating an ethnically pure Serbian area. Mentioned hypothesis corroborated by numerous and relevant facts chronologically elaborated in the work, as well as the relevant scientific documents and sources, as well as the final court judgment of the ICTY and the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina perpetrators of the crimes. The main goal of this paper is to introduce a wider and narrower social public on the scope, characteristics and scale, as well as the consequences of the crimes committed against Bosniaks in the Višegrad area.

  • Issue Year: 4/2015
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 115-124
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English