This year is the 10th anniversary of the Srebrenica Massacre in Bosnia (July 11-16, 1995). See
http://www.srebrenica2005.com
Conference: "Genocide Against Bosniaks in the U.N. Safe Area Srebrenica, July 1995" Location: Sarajevo and Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina Date: July 10-14, 2005 Sponsor: Institut za istraživanje zlocina protiv covjecnosti i medjunarodnog prava Univerziteta u Sarajevo (Institute for Research of Crimes against Humanity and International Law of Sarajevo University) est. 1992.
http://www.inzl.unsa.ba
Konvencija o sprijeèavanju i kažnjavanju zloèina genocida
Usvojena Rezolucijom 260 (III) A na Generalnoj Skupštini Ujedinjenih Nacija 09 Decembra 1948.godine. Stupanje na snagu 12 Januara 1951. godine.
Pravna definicija genocida (ukljuèujuæi diskusiju i znaèenja) Izraz genocid je prvi put upotrijebio jevrejski advokat u Poljskoj Rafael Lemkin 1943. na osnovu grèke rijeèi "genos" (rasa, pleme) i latinske rijeèi "cide" (ubiti). Ujedinjene nacije po Meðunarodnom zakonu iz 1951. godine, genocid smatraju zloèinom.
"Etnicko Ciscenje" is the Serbian, Croat and Bosniak term meaning "Ethnic Cleansing". The term "Ethnic Cleansing" entered the English language through the news media in the summer of 1992. (See "Ethnic Cleansing and International Law" by Drazen Petrovic )
Bibliography of Books in Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian on Genocide and related topics This bibliography includes items published immediately before and during the destruction of Yugoslavia (late 1980s and early 1990s) when newly publicized atrocities from the World War II period played a considerable role in polarizing and escalating violence among ethnic groups in the former Yugoslavia.
ICTY Appeals Chamber: "Genocide was committed in Srebrenica in 1995" In the Case the Prosecutor v. Radislav Krstic, on April 19, 2004 the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (The Hague, Netherlands) unanimously found that "genocide was committed in Srebrenica in 1995." Previously on August 2, 2001 the ICTY found former Bosnian Serb General-Major Radislav Krstic guilty of genocide in the Srebrencia Massacre (July 11-16, 1995) and sentenced him to 46 years in prison. Established as a "safe area"in the Spring of 1993, in 1995 Srebrenica became the site of Europe's worst massacre since World War Two with more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys were killed. Krstic carried out the genocidal massacre on orders from former Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic, both of whom remain at large. Krstic's defense lawyers appealed his verdict, claiming the numbers of men and boys killed were "too insignificant" to be called genocide. On April 19, 2004 presiding appeals judge, Theodor Meron (USA), and four others - Fausto Pocar (Italy), Mohamed Shahabuddeen (Guyana), Mehmet Güney (Turkey) and Wolfgang Schomburg (Germany) - upheld the genocide verdict. The ruling established the important legal precedent that a massacre targeting a "substantial part" of a population group, even when targeting only one sex, could be called genocide. Judge Meron wrote: "They stripped all the male Muslim prisoners, military and civilian, elderly and young, of their personal belongings and identification, and deliberately and methodically killed them solely on the basis of their identity". In Krstic's case, however, the judges, found that while implementing the orders, he lacked genocidal intent and was guilty only of "aiding and abetting genocide", a lesser crime not included in his original indictment. Therefore the appeals judges reduced Krstic's prison sentence from 46 to 35 years. [ Read the text on theICTY website ]
'Erased Residents' (izbrisani) in Slovenia On April 4, 2004 voters in a non-binding referendum upheld the 12-year-old policy creating 'erased residents' (izbrisani) in Slovenia. In 1992, eight month after declaring independence from Yugoslavia, the government of Slovenia deleted some 30,000 persons from civil registries. Some call this policy 'administrative ethnic cleansing' or 'soft genocide.'
Books and Articles [List to be added]
Zaw¯at¯i, Hilm¯i Selected socio-legal bibliography on ethnic cleansing, wartime rape, and genocide in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda / Hilmi M. Zawati, Ibtisam M. Mahmoud. 2005
"Ethnic Cleansing and International Law" Read Drazen Petrovic's 1994 discussion of the orgins of the term "Ethnic Cleaning" (etnicko ciscenje) which entered the international vocaulbary in 1992 and the relationship between this term to established internatonal crimes such as genocide. Drazen Petrovic Ethnic Cleansing - An Attempt at Methodology European Journal of International Law
http://www.ejil.org Vol. 5 (1994) No. 3
Branimir Anzulovic. Heavenly Serbia: From Myth to Genocide. New York and London: New York University Press, 1999. xiv + 233 pp
A valuable dissection of the mythical underpinnings of Serbia ultra-nationalism. These concepts and images have been skillfully manipulated by.