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MOTHERS OF SREBRENICA AND PODRINJA ASSOCIATION
V.
UNITED NATIONS OFFICIALS AND OTHERS
(CRIMINAL COMPLAINT FOR THE SREBRENICA MASSACRE)
UNITED NATIONS, THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS.
The Mothers of Srebrenica and Podrinja Association, headquartered in Vogosca, Bosnia and Herzegovina file a Criminal Complaint with the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Madame Carla Del Ponte, on Friday, February 4 against the following Officials of the United Nations Organization and others for the role they played in the fall and genocidal massacre at Srebrenica in July of 1995: BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI, KOFI ANNAN, YASUSHI AKASHI, BERNARD JANVIER, RUPERT SMITH, HERVÉ GOBILLIARD, JORIS VOORHOEVE, CEES NICOLAI, THOMAS KARREMANS, ROBERT FRANKEN, THORVALD STOLTENBERG, CARL BILDT, DAVID OWEN, MICHAEL ROSE, THEIR SUBORDINATES, SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC, RADOVAN KARADZIC, AND RATKO MLADIC.
The genocidal massacre at Srebrenica was the single greatest human rights atrocity perpetrated in Europe since the genocidal horrors inflicted by the Nazis during the Second World War. Approximately 10,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were systematically exterminated during just a few days by the Bosnian Serb Army under the direct command of Milosevic, Karadzic, and Mladic. During this time, the above-named United Nations Officials and their subordinates deliberately and maliciously refused to do anything to stop this genocidal massacre at the U.N.-declared "safe area" of Srebrenica despite having the legal obligation, the legal and political authority, and the military power to do so.
The Complaint accuses the above-named United Nations Officials and their subordinates of planning, preparing, conspiring, instigating, complicity, and otherwise aiding and abetting, in the planning, preparation, conspiracy, complicity, and execution of crimes referred to in articles 2 to 5 of the ICTY Statute: Article 2--Grave Breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949; Article 3--Violations of the Laws or Customs of War; Article 4--Genocide; and Article 5--Crimes against Humanity.
Under ICTY Statute article 18(1), this Complaint establishes a "sufficient basis to proceed" toward the investigation and indictment of the above-named United Nations Officials and their subordinates by the Prosecutor. Pursuant to article 18(4) of the Statute, the Complaint requests that the Prosecutor prepare the appropriate indictments against the above-named United Nations Officials and their subordinates, and transmit these indictments to a Judge of the ICTY Trial Chamber for confirmation. If confirmed by the Judge, theComplaint requests that pursuant to Statute article 19(2), the Prosecutor request the Judge to issue international warrants calling for the arrest, detention, surrender and transfer to the Tribunal of the above-named United Nations Officials and their subordinates. The Complaint also requests that the Prosecutor ask the confirming Judge to freeze the worldwide financial assets of the above-named United Nations Officials and their subordinates so that the Mothers of Srebrenica and Podrinja Association might receive some small degree of reparations for the terrible harm that the above-named United Nations Officials and their subordinates deliberately and maliciously inflicted upon them and their deceased next-of-kin at Srebrenica and its environs during July of 1995.
WE WILL NOT REST UNTIL JUSTICE IS DONE!
Mothers of Srebrenica & Podrinja
Sakiba ðere 9
Vogosca
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Tel: 0038771432970;432497;210269
Fax: 0038771210269
Professor Francis A. Boyle
Attorney for the
Mothers of Srebrenica & Podrinja
LawBuilding
504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue
Champaign, Illinois 61820 U.S.A.
Tel: 217-333-7954Fax: 217-244-1478
E-mail: fboyle@law.uiuc.edu
The full text of the complaint, the appendix and this press release in the Bosnian language can be found on the Internet at http://www.domovina.net/complaint
While they are in Holland, the Bosnian delegation and professor Boyle can be contacted through Domovina Net by e-mail or by phone: <webmaster@domovina.net> phone +31 20 4160165
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
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