2017•Unpublished venueRequires access
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: The Repression of Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina
John R. W. D. Jones, Roberta Arnold
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Abstract
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (the “ICTY” or the “Tribunal”) came into being largely as a result of the images of gaunt Muslim men standing behind barbed wire fences of the Serb-run concentration camps of Omarska, Keraterm, and Trnopolje which were broadcast around the world in the summer 1992 and which raised the specter of virulent nationalism and genocide on the European continent for the first time in fifty years. Whilst the international community was not prepared at the time to bring an end to the Serbs’ “ethnic cleansing” of Bosnian Muslims by military means, it was nonetheless prepared to cloak its moral nakedness in the face of such barbarity with the fig leaf of a court established to take action against the culprits.