Genocide at Srebrenica, February 2007

While working at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Insight Fellow Tori Babin was afforded the opportunity to attend the judgment of the case of Bosnia v. Serbia & Montenegro at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. This trial is the first instance that the genocide convention has been tested against a state rather than in a criminal trial, such as those of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Although Serbia and Montenegro were not found guilty of committing genocide, the Court did find that they failed to prevent genocide in the atrocities of Srebrenica in 1995, and that they have failed to punish it by continuing to harbor perpetrators of genocide such as Ratko Mladic (Bosnian Serb general) and Radovan Karadzic (Bosnian Serb wartime president) and refusing to hand them over to the ICTY.

Click here for the CNN video account of the case. You must have CNN Pipeline in order to view.

For more information on Tori's work, read her journals here.