Top UN court delivers Balkan genocide verdicts
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The UN's highest court yesterday ruled that Serbia did not commit genocide against Croats during the Balkan wars of the early 1990s. Serbia was accused of ethnic cleansing as a "form of genocide" at the time, leading to large numbers of Croats being displaced, killed or tortured and their property being destroyed. Some 20,000 people died in the conflict, one of several to shake the Balkans in the 1990s.
To give us the legal perspective on this verdict is Professor Jeremy Sarkin from the Department of Public, Constitutional & International Law at UNISA…
BIO: Prof. Jeremy Sarkin has a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School and a Doctor of Laws degree on comparative and international law. He served as National Chairperson of the Human Rights Committee of South Africa from 1994-1998. He served as an acting judge in 2002 and 2003 in the Cape High Court. He has worked on constitutional and transitional issues in many countries. He is a member of various journal editorial boards, including Human Rights Quarterly, Inter-American and European Human Rights Journal, Human Rights and International Legal Discourse, and the International Review of Criminal Law. He has published 14 books and over 200 journal articles on international law and human rights issues.
To give us the legal perspective on this verdict is Professor Jeremy Sarkin from the Department of Public, Constitutional & International Law at UNISA…
BIO: Prof. Jeremy Sarkin has a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School and a Doctor of Laws degree on comparative and international law. He served as National Chairperson of the Human Rights Committee of South Africa from 1994-1998. He served as an acting judge in 2002 and 2003 in the Cape High Court. He has worked on constitutional and transitional issues in many countries. He is a member of various journal editorial boards, including Human Rights Quarterly, Inter-American and European Human Rights Journal, Human Rights and International Legal Discourse, and the International Review of Criminal Law. He has published 14 books and over 200 journal articles on international law and human rights issues.
