In order to understand the way justice works throughout the international community, a person must understand the history behind the system and all the reasons it came to be. The Bosnia Case was the public international case of Bosnia and Herzegovina v Serbia and Montenegro. Dr. Francis Boyle, an adviser to Alija Izetbegović, the first Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War, filed the case. A document issued by the International Court of Justice stated that,
“25,000 Bosnian Muslims, most of them women, children and elderly people who were living in the area, were uprooted and, in an atmosphere of terror, loaded onto overcrowded buses by the Bosnian Serb forces and transported across the confrontation …show more content…
This new court was all centered around the experiment that had taken place between November 20th, 1945 and October 1st, 1949, the Nuremberg trials. These trials were a arrangement of 13 trials held for the sole purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, and in order to give these criminals a fair trial they were given prosecution and defense attorneys. The criminals were tried under British and American law, and instead of a single judge, the judges were world powers such as, Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States, who governed the hearings …show more content…
“by twelve votes to three, Finds that Serbia has violated the obligation to prevent genocide, under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, in respect of the genocide that occurred in Srebrenica in July 1995.” (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro Judgement, p. 108 § 297)
As Gary Bass, an expert in international justice at Princeton University, once wrote: "In domestic society we think that any person who commits a crime deserves to be punished. And when you 're dealing with war crimes you 're never going to be able to have that kind of perfect accountability. So you 're left with this sort of symbolic
“25,000 Bosnian Muslims, most of them women, children and elderly people who were living in the area, were uprooted and, in an atmosphere of terror, loaded onto overcrowded buses by the Bosnian Serb forces and transported across the confrontation …show more content…
This new court was all centered around the experiment that had taken place between November 20th, 1945 and October 1st, 1949, the Nuremberg trials. These trials were a arrangement of 13 trials held for the sole purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, and in order to give these criminals a fair trial they were given prosecution and defense attorneys. The criminals were tried under British and American law, and instead of a single judge, the judges were world powers such as, Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States, who governed the hearings …show more content…
“by twelve votes to three, Finds that Serbia has violated the obligation to prevent genocide, under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, in respect of the genocide that occurred in Srebrenica in July 1995.” (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro Judgement, p. 108 § 297)
As Gary Bass, an expert in international justice at Princeton University, once wrote: "In domestic society we think that any person who commits a crime deserves to be punished. And when you 're dealing with war crimes you 're never going to be able to have that kind of perfect accountability. So you 're left with this sort of symbolic