The UN’s Human Rights Committee made its first-ever decision censuring Bosnia and Herzegovina for failing to help find five people who went missing near Sarajevo in wartime.
The region’s best and brightest are giving up on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia after a recent series of controversial acquittals, but their condemnation could be misplaced.
Bosnian Croat leaders may have been jailed for wartime crimes in the short-lived statelet of Herzeg-Bosna, but Croatians have yet to seriously examine their nation’s own responsibility for atrocities.
Twenty years after the United Nations formed the international criminal court in The Hague to prosecute war crimes, the Tribunal is again in the spotlight over its controversial verdicts.