Yugoslav Tribunal Continues in Full Force

As the work of the Yugloslav Tribunal reaches at its peak, a key concern is whether it has the ability to implement and enforce its mandates. On June 11, 2004 a 42-page report commissioned by the Bosnian Serb Republic in January 2004 was released, which admitted for the first time that police and army units under its control “participated” in the Srebrenica massacre in July 1995 that took the lives of at least 7,000 Muslim men. The killings were considered the worst atrocity committed in Europe since World War II and were part of a final effort by Bosnia’s Serbian leadership to create an “ethnically pure” Serbian state.