Former yugoslavia

International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia   On May 25, 1993, U.N. Security Council Resolution 827 established an international tribunal charged with prosecuting violations of international law arising from the armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. Not since the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, following World War II has an international court tried individuals accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. The International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTFY), which was established

environments, two respective tribunals were established. These tribunals were known as the ICTY (The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, est.1993) and ICTR (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, est.1994) . The ICTY was formed to address the conflict in former Yugoslavia. The situation started when two of the six republics of Yugoslavia, Slovenia and Croatia, declared their independence after the fall of the Berlin Wall. This sparked a lengthy and lethal conflict within the

War II, the Yugoslavia War has been infamous for the war crimes, which include ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity and rape. These wars supplemented and aided the weathering of the Yugoslav state, when its constituent republics declared independence, but the issues of ethnic minorities in the new countries (chiefly Serbs, Croats and Albanians) were still unsettled at the time the republics were accepted internationally. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was

The Bosnian Genocide: 1992-1995 From 1992 to 1995, Bosnia experienced an extended period of turbulence due to a Serbian nationalist movement that resulted in violent upheaval. After many years of being part of an empire or another country, Bosnia finally gained the opportunity to be independent in 1992. Yet there was little reason to rejoice independence when many non-Serbs were dispossessed of their home in Bosnia. Although this genocide was coined “ethnic cleansing,” in the early stages

were affecting former Yugoslavia. Firstly, the atrocities that ethnic Serbs were perpetrating against Bosniak’s. Secondly his national speeches that focused on Serbian nationalism that gained him enough power to force the party leader Ivan Stambolic out of

After World War II had ended, tensions between the two global superpowers, United States and the Soviet Union, emerged. Both nations had differing political perspectives: while one was capitalist, another was communist. As a result, the western powers decided to create an alliance to protect themselves and civilians from the spread of communism. This alliance was named NATO: its ideology is based on humanitarian protection. The conflict between Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo emerged from ethnic discrimination

Rachel Moore 4/2/18 Block 5 The Bosnian Genocide was wrong and preventable by learning from the history of our past with other genocides, and it should have been detected early on to stop it. The Bosnian Genocide was an event that occurred in 1995. The Bosnian Serbs took over Sarajevo, the capital city. They attacked the Muslims, also known as Bosniaks. The deaths of the event were approximately 8,000 lives. They tried to “cleanse” the Bosnian territory. They used Yugoslavian military to eliminate

Amnesty International: "WHEN EVERYONE IS SILENT: REPARATION FOR SURVIVORS OF WARTIME RAPE IN REPUBLIKA SRPSKA IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA." Amnesty International Publications (2012). Amnesty International’s purpose is “to analyze the failure of the authorities to respect the right to reparation of survivors of wartime rape.” (AI) This purpose is legitimate as out of the tens of thousands of women who were victims of wartime rape, “fewer than 40 cases have been prosecuted.” (AI) The governments of

While struggling with puzzling and complex events I came to a deeper understanding of constant questioning and doubting as the utmost ability in my writing work...as Voltaire noted that doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. I doubted even myself, my motives and my memory, my knowledge... I would ask myself repeatedly: did I hear and remember this and that properly, are my notes and records accurate, did I understand some event... At times I was feeling as I was walking

Di Giovanni, a senior foreign correspondent for The Times, lived through the Balkan wars in the former Yugoslavia. This book focuses mainly on the conflict in Kosovo in 1999 but Di Giovanni also reports on the situation from the initial dissolution of the country up until the attempt at reconstruction. The author also provides the reader with the historical context of the wars, such as the events since the death of Tito and especially since 1992. It was in 1991 that the Catholic- dominated Croatia