Indictment at The Hague : the Milošović regime and crimes of the Balkan War / Norman Cigar and Paul Williams.

Includes bibliographical references.

A case for indictment -- The law : war crimes and individual responsibility -- The Commission of War Crimes in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia -- Ordering war crimes -- Aiding and abetting war crimes -- Failure to prevent and punish war crimes -- The battle and siege of Sarajevo -- "Ethnic cleansing operations" in the northeast city of Zvornik -- Report of the Secretary General, Kofi Annan, to the United Nations Security Council: the fall of Srebrenica -- United States Reports to the United Nations Security Council on War Crimes in the former Yugoslavia -- Final Report of the Commission of Experts to the Secretary General of the United Nations -- Letter of resignation and list of periodic reports submitted by Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Secial Rapporteur to the UN Commission on Human Rights -- Indictments issued by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague: Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic (Bosnia-Herzegovina) Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic (Srebrenica) Slobodan Miloievic (Croatia) Slobodan Miloievic (Bosnia-Herzegovina).

Taking as its starting point the existing canon of international law and conventions governing actions during war, Indictment at The Hague represents the most detailed examination of the conduct of the Serbian authorities and the individual responsibility of senior members of its leadership for war crimes. Citing the precedent of the Nuremberg trials, Cigar and Williams link conscious decisions and specific deeds undertaken by the Milosevic regime that violated the protections guaranteed to civilian populations in war. The volume reproduces a collection of key documents from the Hague Tribunal, U.N. Commissions, and Human Rights Organizations which appear in print together for the first time.