Hague Court Convicts Bosnian Croats of 1993 Muslim Massacre
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Religion, Ethics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Law, Legal History, Courts, Terrorism
- Subcategories: Race, Ethnicity, Racism, Court Cases, Rulings, Appeals, Murder, Homicide, Execution, Assassination, Islam, Muslims, Mosques, Human Rights, Violence
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, Eastern European History
- Geographical Location: The Hague
- Date: January 14, 2000
Article abstract: In convicting five Bosnian Croats for the massacre of more than a hundred Bosnian Muslims in a small Bosnian village, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia served notice that all national communities would be held accountable for human rights violations committed during the breakup of Yugoslavia.
Summary of Event
Created in 1918 as the United Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes out of remnants of the defeated Austrian-Hungarian Empire, and renamed Yugoslavia in 1929, Yugoslavia was once...
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