Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Hearing Before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, April 4, 1995, Volume 4 |
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alleged Annex armed conflict attacks Balkan battle besieging forces Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnian Croats Bosnian Muslims Bosnian Serb BSA forces casualties cent Chairman chronology civilians command and control Commission of Experts committed contains Corroborated counties crimes Croatia cultural property detained detention facilities ethnic cleansing former Yugoslavia Geneva Conventions genocide gravesites Human Rights identified IHRLI international humanitarian law investigation killed Krajina large number leaders mass graves military mosques Mostar number of persons occurred operated Ottoman paramilitary paramilitary activity paramilitary groups paramilitary units parties perpetrators places of detention political Prijedor prisoners Professor BASSIOUNI rape and sexual region reported reportedly Republic Riedlmayer Serb forces Serb paramilitary Serbian sexual assault shelling activity Siege of Sarajevo Slovenia sniping special forces targets territory torture Total camps Tribunal Uncorroborated United Nations Unknown UNPROFOR victims Vukovar warring factions witnesses women Yugoslav Zvornik
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Page 71 - In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such...
Page 71 - Disputes between the Contracting Parties relating to the interpretation, application or fulfilment of the present Convention, including those relating to the responsibility of a State for genocide or for any of the other acts enumerated in article III, shall be submitted to the International Court of Justice at the request of any of the parties to the dispute.
Page 72 - It shall thereafter remain in force for successive periods of five years for such Contracting Parties as have not denounced it at least six months before the expiration of the current period.
Page 72 - The present Convention shall be ratified, and the instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Page 71 - State in the territory of which the act was committed, or by such international penal tribunal as may have jurisdiction with respect to those Contracting Parties which shall have accepted its jurisdiction. Article 7 Genocide and the other acts enumerated in article III shall not be considered as political crimes for the purpose of extradition. The Contracting Parties pledge themselves in such cases to grant extradition in accordance with their laws and treaties in force.
Page 72 - The present Convention shall be open until 31 December 1949 for signature on behalf of any Member of the United Nations and of any non-member State to which an invitation to sign has been addressed by the General Assembly.
Page 72 - ... Secretary-General of the United Nations shall notify all Members of the United Nations and the non-member States contemplated in article...
Page 72 - The original of the present Convention shall be deposited in the archives of the United Nations. A certified copy of the Convention shall be transmitted to all Members of the United Nations and to the non-member States contemplated in article XI.
Page 71 - Persons charged with genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in Article III shall be tried by a competent tribunal of the State in the territory of which the act was committed, or by such international penal tribunal as may have jurisdiction with respect to those Contracting Parties which shall have accepted its jurisdiction.
Page 71 - Persons committing genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in Article III shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals.