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Few atrocities have been documented as extensively as the Srebrenica genocide. Yet three decades later, denial remains politically entrenched, while the evidentiary record painstakingly assembled by international courts faces an uncertain future. JURIST’s Sarisha Harikrishna spoke with Iva Vukušić, Assistant Professor in International History at Utrecht University and Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of [...]

The UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Thursday announced that it had dismissed the request from convicted Bosnian war criminal Ratko Mladić, who is currently serving a life sentence for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, for early provisional release due to an advanced deterioration of his health that [...]

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. —US President Donald Trump via social media Modern international justice is the product of lessons learned from civilizational destruction. And the language of civilizational destruction has a particular resonance in international law. It [...]

Myanmar on Friday began its defense before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the ground-breaking genocide case brought by the Gambia, rejecting all allegations of genocide against the Muslim Rohingya minority. Myanmar’s agent Ko Ko Hlaing emphasized Myanmar’s recognition of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, but said [...]

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) began proceedings Monday on charges of genocide concerning Myanmar’s persecution of its Rohingya population. The Gambia, bringing the case, will present its arguments until January 15, after which Myanmar will present its defense until January 20. The Gambia alleges that Myanmar’s armed forces, the Tatmadaw, have conducted widespread and [...]

The People’s National Assembly, the lower house of Algeria’ parliament, began debating a draft law on Saturday seeking to criminalize French colonization. This legislative move is a step in advancing the Algiers Declaration, which was adopted following a conference on colonialism held on November 30 and December 1. This law focuses on French colonial rule [...]

The National Assembly of the autonomous Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) on Friday voted to call for a referendum on a federal court’s decision to ban the entity’s former president from holding office. In a late-night session, the assembly rejected the decision of BiH’s Central Election Commission to terminate Milorad Dodik’s mandate, declaring [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Mary Lawlor on Friday urged authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) to ensure the protection and promotion of human rights defenders, after concluding her visit to the country. In her statement, Lawlor called for authorities to ensure accountability and “tackle negative narratives” against human rights [...]

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday sentenced Republika Srpska (RS) president Milorad Dodik to one year in prison, imposing a six-year ban on his political participation within the RS due to his frequent calls for Republika Srpska’s independence. The court convicted Dodik for failure to comply with the decisions of the High Representative [...]

The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has temporarily suspended a new school curriculum in the Republika Srpska under which elementary school students would be taught about the “achievements” of convicted war criminals Ratko Mladić and Radovan Karadzic. A statement from the court Friday said that the court found: would have serious and irremediable detrimental [...]