PROSECUTION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AGAINST SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO FOR GENOCIDE Cover Image

TUŽBA BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE PROTIV SRBIJE I CRNE GORE ZA GENOCID
PROSECUTION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AGAINST SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO FOR GENOCIDE

Author(s): Željko Petrović
Subject(s): Criminal Law, Civil Law, International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Law and Transitional Justice, EU-Legislation, Court case
Published by: Visoka škola “CEPS – Centar za poslovne studije” Kiseljak
Keywords: Bosnia and Herzegovina; war; lawsuit; genocide; war crime;

Summary/Abstract: Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina mainly refers to the Srebrenica genocide committed by Serbian Army forces in July 1995, with the aim of destroying all Bosniaks in the area, but also genocide in a broader context denoting crimes against humanity and war crimes during the Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995. The term describes the campaign of ethnic cleansing and killing in the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bosnia and Herzegovina, holding that the then FR Yugoslavia was responsible for the violations of international humanitarian law or genocide committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, filed a lawsuit before the International Court of Justice to determine its liability. The Tribunal has ruled that the criteria for genocide with the specific goals (dolus specialis) of Bosniak annihilation have been met only in Srebrenica and eastern Bosnia. The aim of the paper is to determine the consequences of the judgment itself, that is, what has been achieved with it and what its results are, given that the dispute was conducted for 14 years

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 55-72
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Bosnian