"I want to clarify that in no way do I advocate international intervention as a successful means of resolving disputes, but rather to highlight the way in which intervention through Resolution 819 was not enforced. The debate has often centred around the question whether a small group of ill-equipped young Dutch soldiers charged with a task of keeping peace in Srebrenica were capable of preventing a genocide. However, what that should be asked is not only whether they could have done anything, but why there was no greater UN presence and diplomatic pressure at the time. Failing in the prevention of genocide, the international community then intervened in the process of post-conflict justice. In May 1993, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia was established through Resolution 827 to try the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the wars in the Balkans in the 1990s. In the case of Srebrenica, the International Court of Justice ruled in 2007 that genocide took place in July 1995."
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 09:21:33 +0000
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