On the Way to Ending Impunity: The Cases of Karadzic, Bemba, and Ongwen By Werner Hofs, RtoP Weekly 31 March 2016   Gravestones at the Strebenica-Potocari Memorial Centre in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Michael Buker Last week was an important one for the advancement of international criminal justice and the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP). On 24 March 2016, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) rendered its judgment in

Statement by Adama Dieng, Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, on the conviction of Radovan Karadzic for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity Judgement 24 March 2016 – 40 years Tribunal convicts Radovan Karadžić for crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina   (New York, - 24 March 2016) The Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, expressed his satisfaction at today’s verdict by the International Criminal

Karadzic guilty of Bosnia genocide, jailed for 40 years Thomas Escritt and Toby Sterling, THE HAGUE 24 March 2016   Image: Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic appears in the courtroom for his appeals judgement at the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague July 11, 2013.  REUTERS/MICHAEL KOOREN   Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was sentenced to 40 years in jail by U.N judges who found

OP-ED: Srebrenica Revisited Seema Jilani, The New York Times Sunday Review 10 July 2015   Photographs by Laura Boushnak for the New York Times   “I was 9 years old when Srebrenica fell. I never had a childhood. I lost count of how many people from our family died in the war, but my father tells me it is over 50, including my uncle who was killed in ‘The Column.’ I was in Tuzla when The Column started arriving. They were emaciated,

Srebrenica Quilt Display Will Cap 20 Years of Advocacy and Anguish  Eleven memorial quilts to be shown at the site of the massacre on July 11  Peter Lippman & Iain Guest, The Advocacy Project 07 July 2015  SREBRENICA, BOSNIA - Weavers from the Bosnian women's group BOSFAM will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre on July 11 with a powerful exhibition of quilts that carry the names of over 350 massacre victims, including

Four years of suffering in Syria: Similarities with Bosnian War Daily Sabah Mideast 16 March 2015   Images of suffering and tragedy in Syria today are very similar to events in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the nineties, according to many Syrians residing in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Innocent children, blood in the streets, destroyed houses, schools and hospitals are a daily reality for the Syrian people whose lives have been dramatically changed

When are atrocities not considered genocide? UN says intent and number of victims are key factors National Post 9 February 2015   In its recent ruling neither Croatia or Serbia committed genocide, the UN’s highest court showed how high the bar is set to prove genocide. Intent is an important factor, as well as the numbers killed, The Post’s Steven Gelis reports: What’s the definition of genocide? The UN’s convention says it must be “committed

Angelina Jolie urges action against use of sexual violence as war weapon theguardian.com, by Agence France-Presse 28 March Angelina Jolie has paid tribute to the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre after urging the international community to stop the use of sexual violence as a war weapon. Jolie was accompanied by the British foreign secretary, William Hague, while on a trip to Bosnia. At the Srebrenica memorial centre museum, Jolie and Hague

Stray Dogs and Stateless Babies The New York Times, Aleksandar Hemon and Jasmin Mujanovic February. 21, 2014 ON National Geographic Traveler Magazine’s Best of the World list this year, Sarajevo joined such select destinations as Liechtenstein, Puglia and Rocky Mountain National Park. But had the innocent tourist recently visited “the Balkan urban phoenix,” as the list labeled the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he would most certainly have