International Response

The overview and the language of the case concerning the application of the convention and prevention of Genocide "CASE CONCERNING APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA v. YUGOSLAVIA (SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO)"
Order of 13 September 1993

In April 1992, the government of the Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina declared its independence from Yugoslavia. Over the next several years, Bosnian Serb forces, with the backing of the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army, perpetrated atrocious crimes against Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) and Croatian civilians, resulting in the deaths of some 100,000 people (80 percent of them Bosniak) by 1995.