World+Response+to+the+Bosnian+Genocide

= = =World Response to the Bosnian Genocide= - The response of the international community was limited. The U.S. under President George Bush chose not to get involved militarily, but instead recognized the independence of both Slovenia and Croatia.

- " The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on February 26, 2007, cleared Serbia of direct involvement in genocide during the Bosnian war, but said Belgrade did breach international law by failing to prevent the 1995 Srebrenica genocide."

- "An arms embargo was imposed for all of the former Yugoslavia by the United Nations. However, the Serbs under Milosevic were already the best armed force and thus maintained a big military advantage. The end of 1991 brokered a U.S.-sponsored cease-fire agreement between the Serbs and Croats fighting in Croatia."

- "After three weeks of negotiations, a peace accord was declared. Terms of the agreement included partitioning Bosnia into two main portions known as the Bosnian Serb Republic and the Muslim-Croat Federation. The agreement also called for democratic elections and stipulated that war criminals would be handed over for prosecution. 60,000 NATO soldiers were deployed to preserve the cease-fire."

- United States under the president of George Bush opted not to do anything militatlily in Bosnia.

- When CNN started reporting on the issue and the U.N established specific terms and conditions of deployment in Bosnia, America finally took action.

- "It was fitting, in a way, that Karadi eluded capture for so long: the world in which he perpetrated his horrors-- a hot country, a cold world-- was never especially outraged by him." The serbs didnt really care to much about Radovan Karadi and had no real desire to capture him.

- The Serbs finally arrested him when his arrest became a condition of Serbia's admittance into the European Union.

- A response to the Bosnian Genocide was that the Serbs felt that the security and identity of their lives were threatened.


 * - The Clinton Administration**
 * December 1995 - Clinton ended fighting in Bosnia
 * Because he was proud of the success, he allowed refugees to return to their homes under the US-brokered Dayton Peace Records
 * people could travel freely throughout the country
 * the civil rights of citizens were to be monitored
 * NATO finalized and refined contingency plans for military operation in Kosovo
 * "The staging of NATP exercises near Kosovo as a warning to Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to halt operations against the Kosovo Kiberation Army (KLA), an armed ethnic ALbanian group seeking Kosovo independence."

- **Russia** Book : Staub, Ervin. "Genocide and Mass Killing: Origins, Prevention, Healing and Reconciliation". [|Political Psychology], Vol. 21, No. 2 (Jun., 2000), pp. 367-382 Published by: [|International Society of Political Psychology] [] Website (1) [] Website (2) [] Website (3) [] Website (4) [] Website (5) [] Journal : "Caught". Academic Premier. New Republic Vol. 239 Issue 2. 2008.
 * As a result of Russian pressure, Bosnia agreed to an airlift near Tuzla to reopen for planes containing food and medicine (March 2, 1994)
 * Bosnia was greatly influenced by Russia. "And it was the second time Russia has surprised the West by intervening with the offer of troops to provide the Serbs with a face-savings method to do what the United Nations demands."